I think the common cause of boredom among bright students in public school might be that the class performs drills on skills which the student in question has already mastered.
Are you already ambidextrous? On assignments that are simply repeating the same content, try doing the work with your off-hand. For repetitive lectures, try taking notes with your off-hand.
In some cases, it was performing drills at all whether I'd mastered it or not. 3rd grade is multiplication tables territory. That's deadly boring even when you haven't mastered it yet. And it's one of the few times I really would advise just sucking it up and memorizing the danged thing.
Of course, it's not so bad if you realize that there are only 15 'hard' one-digit multiplication problems - those without either factor being 0, 1, 2, 5, or 9 (there are only 15 combinations of 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, which require more than one simple step + one trivial step)
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Although my 8-year-old son likes his teacher, he is frequently bored at school. He attends a high quality suburban public school in the United States. He has a lot of traits in common with LessWrong readers, and we would like advice for what he can do to counter his boredom. Many of you must have found grade school more or less tedious. What were your coping strategies?