"Hmm."

"I tried asking some of the other kids but some of them cannot even read yet so I don't know if I can take them very seriously."

"They are younger than you. That's going to be a little bit of a challenge."

"Could I try going with the older kids to see what they say?"

"Sure!" They arrange that.

And she quizzes two year olds about the schools.

They like their teachers, for the most part, and like the things they do (some children dislike mathematics), and some of them have tutors to supplement favorite subjects, and some are quite impressed that she is Fen Neli's great-granddaughter that must be neat.

She hasn't actually met him yet, she is recently adopted and they're phasing in the relatives gently, but perhaps it will be neat. What is wrong with mathematics?

It's important but it's just not very interesting the way history and politics and rhetoric and languages are.

So how come this school emphasizes it so much?

This two-year-old does not know. Probably because parents like to know that their children are learning math.

Aha.

She goes home again and announces that she must learn some math to see if she is willing to receive instruction in lots of it.

Her parents are amused and look up math appropriate to teach to one-year-olds and it's addition and subtraction, does she want to learn that?

Sure. It does not take her long. What if she is just way ahead of all the kids her age in school?

That looks somewhat likely. They could ask the school.

Yes.

The school would be happy to get her her own math instructor if the curriculum is too easy but it has all the students doing calculus before they're three and is usually considered a pretty advanced math curriculum!

Yes all right then she'll go with that one.

Proud parents drop her off at school and make fast friends with all the other parents.

Lintalai's fellow one-year-olds are less mature than her, notably so.

She will practice being patient with them. It doesn't matter that much while they are watching historical reenactment plays as long as they don't shriek over the actors.

They are mature enough not to do that! They're smart - they pick up reading quickly and ask interesting questions and remember new words they learn - they're just not as mature as her at all. Patience is a good thing to practice. Her teachers tell them that the blue virtues are patience and good judgment and benevolence and patience is the only one that Lintalai might have any trouble with.

Well then she supposes practice is good but it's sort of trying.

They get her a tutor when she proves better at math than her classmates. The tutor covers statistics. They can collect some data and then figure out whether it's meaningful! They can look at data other people collected! They can read research papers and check their math! 

Ooooh collecting data is fun. Did anybody try her experiment yet?

Money has been allocated for it and the schools picked out but that kind of thing goes slowly!