Homeschool Brainiac Scores a Perfect
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Schuyler Smith, a 13-year-old scored a perfect in the American Mathematics Competition’s AMC-8 test. He also scored perfectly in the math portion of the SAT in 7th grade.
Schuyler also was a member of the winning home-school team that swept the 2006 Mathcounts regional competition, and he placed sixth of nearly 1,200 competitors in the state.
Homeschoolers usually dominate these sorts of competitions, especially spelling bees. Many people are introduced to the concept of home education by watching TV specials about homeschoolers. Homeschooling is conducive for a study of mathematics that allows the student to go beyond what the rest of the class is capable of.
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