Archive for the 'Math Talented Youth' Category

Middle School Children who love math

Right now, it is the time to take some online classes: AIME A and B, AMC10 AMC12 classes are signed up quickly: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/school/schedule

Last Two Years:

I have been concentrating on my son’s middle school math last two years. It is pretty fruitful: My son took January 28, 2012 SAT I . He was 8 year 11 month old. He scored 700 on math section. ( http://cty.jhu.edu/set/index.html ) He took AMC 8 on November 23, 2012 and scored 23 out of […]

Feb. 24th, 2013. Longfellow Middle School, Math Magician -Prof. Arthur Benjamin

FCAG sponsored a featured speaker on Feb. 24th, 2013 at Longfellow Middle School. Prof. Arthur Benjamin ( http://www.math.hmc.edu/~benjamin/ ) gave speech to about around 400 audiences ( planned for 200 audiences). Prof. Arthur first showed a new ‘invisible’ card magic he never disclosed before. Then he conduced his routine mental math for about 1 hour. […]

How to use the AMC report generator to find your information.

go to following link: http://amc-reg.maa.org/Reports/GeneralReports.aspx you find lots of helpful information from there. 1. You choose a contest from there. You can find: AMC 10/12 02/05/2013 AMC 8 11/13/2012 AIME II 03/28/2012 AIME 03/15/2012 AMC 10/12 B 02/22/2012 AMC 10/12 A 02/07/2012 AMC 8 11/15/2011 AIME II 03/30/2011 AIME 03/17/2011 AMC 10/12 B 02/23/2011 AMC […]

AMC 10, 2013

AMC 10a, 2013 was taken on Feb. 5th 2013 evening at Luther Jackson Middle School with the help of FCAG.org. FCAG invited those who scored high on AMC 8 to take AMC 10 free. Most of them are young students in Elementary Schools and Middle Schools. Some High Schools like Thomas Jefferson High School for […]

AMC 8, 2012 sponsored by FCAG

2012 AMC 8 (http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e4-amc08/amc8.shtml) was held on Nov. 13, 2012. It was Tuesday. My son took AMC 8 through FCAG sponsored free AMC 8 test. (FCAG is a non-profit organization helping gifted and talented kids and their parents in Fairfax county. Actually, they don’t limited themselves for helping people in other places. Some students from […]

scored 700+ on math section of SAT when 8 year old

My son has followed Terence Tao and Lanhard Ng that became only three children in the history of the Johns Hopkins’ Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just 8 years old. He became a SET member when he just turn 9 […]

Johns Hopkins CTY SET program Eligibility

Students qualify for SET by taking the SAT before age 13 and scoring at least 700 on either the Math or Verbal (Critical Reading) test. Students who take the SAT after their 13th birthday may qualify for SET by scoring an additional 10 points above 700 for each month after their 13th birthday. Students who […]

Terence Tao

Terence Tao is one of only two (besides Lenhard Ng) that scored 700+ in math section of SAT test at age 8. In 1986, 1987, and 1988, Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten, winning a bronze, silver, and gold medal respectively. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the olympiad’s history winning the gold medal when he barely turned thirteen. At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute. When he was 15 he published his first assistant paper. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees (at the age of 16) from Flinders University under Garth Gaudry. In 1992 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study in the United States. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving his Ph.D. at the age of 20.[6] He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996.