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Maths standard of an 8 year old
Posted: June 1st, 2021, 8:48 am
by rbhawcroft
This is my son wirting out 8^n and 9^n from his head, I think self taught, and yes he is on the spectrum. What do you think? The 9^n sequence has one error in it carried through.
Re: Maths standard of an 8 year old
Posted: June 1st, 2021, 12:59 pm
by Cuchulainn
Can he do [$]e^5[$] to two decimal places accuracy?
from his head,
This sound like a direct translation from a Germanic language.
Re: Maths standard of an 8 year old
Posted: June 1st, 2021, 3:47 pm
by Alan
To see if he will become an accountant or a Fields' medalist, see how he handles Gauss's problem: 1 + 2 + ... + 100
Re: Maths standard of an 8 year old
Posted: June 1st, 2021, 8:45 pm
by rbhawcroft
Can he do [$]e^5[$] to two decimal places accuracy?
from his head,
This sound like a direct translation from a Germanic language.
thats probably a bit much!
Re: Maths standard of an 8 year old
Posted: June 1st, 2021, 8:49 pm
by rbhawcroft
To see if he will become an accountant or a Fields' medalist, see how he handles Gauss's problem: 1 + 2 + ... + 100
the right answer to this is someting like =nx*0.5+nx?
I havent studied maths since 18, I was better at Chemistry
Any other sequences that I can show to him appreciated. I will post the effort he makes.
Re: Maths standard of an 8 year old
Posted: June 1st, 2021, 9:17 pm
by katastrofa
Had he a better handwriting, he wouldn't have made en error at 9^10. I guess he misread his own "6" for "0"

He might like calculating the pi number in memory.
Re: Maths standard of an 8 year old
Posted: June 9th, 2021, 9:21 pm
by rbhawcroft
A couple more. The second power of five goes to a 1 followed by zeroes number in the end so I guess he worked it backwards as another division of five is not a whole number