Could have solved it in my sleep.
Posted on 12/05/2005 1:02:05 PM PST by anymouse
16-year-old found new way to solve 19th-century math problem
A 16-year-old California boy won a premier high school science competition Monday for his innovative approach to an old math problem that could help in the design of airplane wings.
Michael Viscardi, a senior from San Diego, won a $100,000 college scholarship, the top individual prize in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
Viscardi said he’s been homeschooled since fifth grade, although he does take math classes at the University of California at San Diego three days a week. His father is a software engineer and his mother, who stays at home, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience, he said.
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The California public school system has failed to dumb him down! Increase teacher pay immediately!
I thought all home schooled kids were insane and ill-informed though. /sar
I expect the public school kids will duct tape him to a bench.
"Viscardi said he’s been homeschooled since fifth grade, although he does take math classes at the University of California at San Diego three days a week. His father is a software engineer and his mother, who stays at home, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience, he said."
OK, but you do have to admit his home situation is a bit on the "abnormal" side.
I strongly support home-schooling, but knowing many home-schoolers, there are some where the kids should be teaching the parents.
Of course, the parents are getting a lot smarter going through the curriculum, and it's great to see a family learning together.
"his mother, who stays at home, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience"
The heroes in this story are the parents, who obviously have their priorities straight.
Mike's going to have his pick of schools to attend.
Years ago when we were considering homeschooling, I read a book by the Colfaxes called Homeschooling for Excellence.
Their kids were homeschooled and had all gone on to major universities on scholarship. The parents were both professors (if I remember right) and I thought to myself as I started to read the book that it was probably just a "genetic" thing as the explanation of the kids success.
As I read the book, I found out that two of their boys were adopted... so had to throw the "genetics" explanation out the window.
ping
Poor kid, not getting the proper "socialization" that a public skool could provide. Someone needs to beat him up, steal his lunch money, and throw him a condom. That'll fix it! :)
Could have solved it in my sleep.
Probably a little of both: nature and nurture.
And probably no mind numbing things like TV, video games, etc.
Congrats to this kid. It's always good to see American kids, no matter where and how they are taught, do well in their studies.
Gawd, I passed Calc 3 and Diff. EQ, but i would ber lost trying that now!
where is the boundary of . Then is continuous on the closed unit disk and harmonic on (Krantz 1999a, p. 93). So what's the big deal?
“He is a super-duper mathematics student,” said lead judge Constance Atwell, a consultant and former research director at the National Institutes of Health.
Now that's education!
The answer is 42!
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