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Nigerian 8-Year-Old Twins Break World Mathematics Record
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Steve Hayes
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Nigerian 8-Year-Old Twins Break World Mathematics Record (VIDEO)
Posted On 14 Mar 2012
Meet twins Paula and Peter Imafidon – they passed the University of
Cambridge Advanced Maths A level at age 8! They chat with GMTV’s John
Stapleton.
The 8-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London are a
part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain
education.
The two youngest Nigerian siblings are about to make British history
as the youngest students to ever enter high school.
They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the
youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced
mathematics exam. That’s on top of the fact they have set world
records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.
Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his
youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their
tender age.
“We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he said. “Because
they are twins they are always able to help and support each other.”
To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. Chris Imafidon said
he and his wife have been through this before: They have other
super-gifted, overachieving children.
Peter and Paula’s sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record
as the youngest girl to pass the A-level computing when she was just
13.
She is now studying at arguably the most renowned medical school in
the United States, Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get
accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British
university at 11. And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous
high school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of six,
something that her twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did.
<URL:http://africanspotlight.com/2012/03/14/nigerian-8-year-old-twins-break-world-mathematics-record-video/>
Comment:
I wonder if they would have done as well in Nigerian schools, or in
South African schools?
There is a lot in our education systems that needs fixing.
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com
Posted On 14 Mar 2012
Meet twins Paula and Peter Imafidon – they passed the University of
Cambridge Advanced Maths A level at age 8! They chat with GMTV’s John
Stapleton.
The 8-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London are a
part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain
education.
The two youngest Nigerian siblings are about to make British history
as the youngest students to ever enter high school.
They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the
youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced
mathematics exam. That’s on top of the fact they have set world
records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.
Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his
youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their
tender age.
“We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he said. “Because
they are twins they are always able to help and support each other.”
To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. Chris Imafidon said
he and his wife have been through this before: They have other
super-gifted, overachieving children.
Peter and Paula’s sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record
as the youngest girl to pass the A-level computing when she was just
13.
She is now studying at arguably the most renowned medical school in
the United States, Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get
accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British
university at 11. And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous
high school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of six,
something that her twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did.
<URL:http://africanspotlight.com/2012/03/14/nigerian-8-year-old-twins-break-world-mathematics-record-video/>
Comment:
I wonder if they would have done as well in Nigerian schools, or in
South African schools?
There is a lot in our education systems that needs fixing.
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com
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