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Math Genius *PIC*

While those silly girls are playing with barbies, this boy genius is grouping pieces of paper in ascending divisions. BOYS RULE GIRLS DROOL! Muahahaha. Now if he can keep the chain going up to 20, I'll be really impressed. He'll have to cut a lot of paper.
 
Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
that stupid kid just spread those plastic numbers on the floor and you call him a genius?

Wow, you just showed everyone that you're dumber than a 4 year old. Congratulations!
 
Originally posted by: opticalmace
he sorta separated the numbers by the equivalent number of blocks......close, anyway.

Reminds me of Scrubs last week (or relatively recently). Kids were playing and one had arrange building blocks by color and a definate pattern. Turns out he was autistic.
 
Originally posted by: MAME
Originally posted by: purbeast0
and he's a genius why ?

that's pretty advanced for a pre-schooler

whats pretty advanced? do you mean by the way the numbers are SOMEWHAT laid out in groupings of the red/blue bars?

i am just not seeing it still.
 
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: MAME
Originally posted by: purbeast0
and he's a genius why ?

that's pretty advanced for a pre-schooler

whats pretty advanced? do you mean by the way the numbers are SOMEWHAT laid out in groupings of the red/blue bars?

i am just not seeing it still.

it mirrors summation from i=i to 6 of i (or [n(n+1)]/2, n=6)
 
Originally posted by: buck
Originally posted by: cjgallen
Who's to say his teacher didn't lay that out for him?

Ya no kidding, where is an article or something.

...hahaha

I remember doing this myself actually. The teacher did not help me at all. That's why they took the picture, they were surprised
 
Originally posted by: MAME
Originally posted by: buck
Originally posted by: cjgallen
Who's to say his teacher didn't lay that out for him?

Ya no kidding, where is an article or something.

...hahaha

I remember doing this myself actually. The teacher did not help me at all. That's why they took the picture, they were surprised

Did you two discuss this while you were playing with your barbies yesterday?
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
that stupid kid just spread those plastic numbers on the floor and you call him a genius?

Wow, you just showed everyone that you're dumber than a 4 year old. Congratulations!

hahhah
look at how the numbers are spaced apart, it's not random.
 
While he has never actually done that specific task, I am confident my 3 and a half year old son is capable of doing that. I would not call him a genius, since its impossible to tell at such a young age, but he is very smart for his age.
 
I don't think that the boy is all that unusual. My son could read books at 2, started understanding math at 3 and can also read music. He's almost 5 and can read really long childrens books by himself. The amazing thing is, we never taught him how to read. He learned it all on his own from remembering what we read.

I would walk by his room at 6AM and I could hear him reading books to himself. It is very cute. He also has taken a liking to my wife's organic chemistry book.

The thing is, we don't force him to do anything. We don't want to be one of those pushy parents that want their kids to graduate college at 12. We just want him to enjoy himself and have a normal life. It just happened that he has an affinity towards learning. His younger sister on the other hand, doesn't care at all for books. She just wants to play.
 
My wife teaches a 2-year-old classroom. One kid is the son of two actuaries, so obviously math is probably in his genes.

Nonetheless, she has cards around the room with numbers and the corresponding amount of dots laid out like dice.

And one day this kid looks up at the cards and says "10 is just 2 groups of 5!"
Freakin' 2-year-old just stumbles onto the key to multiplication!
 
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