On Letterman. Daniel says there are only about 25 like him. More humor than skill in this clip. Apparently, there is a trigger between his Auspergers Syndrome and Epilepsi that changed his brain into a mathematical wonder. He “sees” numbers with geometics and color.
Meet Britain’s brainiest toddler: Two-year-old Karina has the same IQ as Stephen Hawking
Daily Mail
June 9, 2009
A toddler has amazed experts after scoring 160 in an IQ test – the same as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates.
Two-year-old Karina Oakley is officially one of the smartest children in the country after her test results put her on a par with the 67-year-old author of A Brief History Of Time and the 53-year-old Microsoft billionaire.
Just like other little girls, Karina loves to dress up, play with her toys, draw, paint and play make-believe games.
But an expert child psychologist recently found her mental age is the equivalent of someone between the age of four and five.
And her memory, verbal and reasoning skills mean she has an IQ 60 points above the country’s average of 100.
Karina Oakley and mother Charlotte Fraser
Who’s a clever girl then? Karina Oakley and mother Charlotte Fraser
Karina’s mother, Charlotte Fraser, admits a TV show led to the amazing findings.
‘I took her up to London to see Professor Joan Freeman, mainly because I’d seen a programme about child geniuses,’ she said.
‘Quite a lot of people had said to me that Karina is quite smart, quite bright, quite clear with her speech and quick to pick things up.
‘So I looked Professor Freeman up on the internet, and gave her a call see if she would see her and get her tested, it was just a bit of fun really.’
Karina, who turns three this summer, was asked to question numbers and complete challenges in a number of different categories, including verbal ability, memory, handling a pencil and numbers and shapes.
The professor found that the toddler has a special bias towards words, with a ‘wonderful imagination’.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Brief History Of Time author Stephen Hawking
‘Karina is a lovely, responsive and friendly little girl,’ said Professon Freeman. ‘She is more than very bright and capable, she is gifted.
‘She enjoyed the test. The pleasure she took in the mental challenge in itself I have found to be a sign of intelligence.
‘During the test it was noted that she gave imaginative responses to questions. For instance when asked, “What do you use your eyes for?” she answered, “You close them when you go to sleep”‘ and then also said, “You put your contact lenses in them”.’
According to Professor Freeman, IQ is likely to change as Karina, from Guildford, Surrey, gets older, but at this point it is more likely to go up rather than down.
Charlotte added: ‘She has a very good memory. She seems to be quite aware of her surroundings, what’s going on around her, she’s very observant, she talks all the time, asks questions all the time.’
It is difficult to know whether Karina’s intelligence is something acquired or something that she was born with.
‘The nature verses nurture argument is a very interesting one,’ said Charlotte.
‘I have stayed at home with her for almost three years, I have always talked to her a lot, always tried to answer her questions, we do a lot of things, we go to the park and we are part of various groups, that must make a difference.
‘I don’t know whether it’s that, combined with something that she was born with. I just think of her as Karina, I don’t have anyone to compare her to.’
Charlotte used to work in marketing and Karina’s father Nick, works as a computer programmer.
Professor Freeman used the Stanford-Binet IQ test, originally devised by Alfred Binet at the beginning of the century. Karina’s score of 160 was arrived at by converting a single raw score for the entire test to a figure indicating mental age.
She then used a formula to arrive at the IQ figure. An IQ of 100 means the child’s chronological and mental ages match.
Traditionally, scores of 90 to 109 are considered average and anything above 140, gifted.
From You Tube: “A Genius kid was admitted to College at the age of 8, the youngest kid admitted to a College in California and I believe in the U.S. Now after 3rd quarter he is Dean’s Honor List and has an average of A++ (100) and he is tutoring math to his classmates at least 10 years old than him!! He is 3 consecutive years the National Champion in Chinese Martial Arts (Gung-Fu, Wushu, Weapons) and competed on the US Karate World Championship in LV when he was 7 and won!! Competed in 37 events with 26 gold and 11 silver Poliglot, plays piano and composed some pieces, master of Yoga, extremely good swimmer etc. And much more.”
Moshe Kai is now 11 and is the youngest ever A.A. graduate in America. Graduation day is June 5, 2009. Congratulations are in order! You can contact him via email at shaolinkidus@yahoo.com.
Here is a news article from 2008:
May 14, 2008
DOWNEY, Calif. — With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.
But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don’t quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor.
“I’m studying statistics,” says the alternately precocious and shy Cavalin, his textbook lying open on the living room desk of his parents’ apartment in this quiet suburb east of Los Angeles.
Within a year, if he keeps up his grades and completes the rest of his requirements, he hopes to transfer from his two-year program at East Los Angeles College to a prestigious four-year school and study astrophysics.
One of his primary interests is “wormholes,” a hypothetical scientific phenomenon connected to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. It has been theorized that if such holes do exist in space, they could — in tandem with black holes — allow for the kind of space-age time travel seen in science fiction.
“Just like black holes, they suck in particulate objects, and also like black holes, they also travel at escape velocity, which is, the speed to get out of there is faster than the speed of light,” Cavalin says. “I’d like to prove that wormholes are really there and prove all the theories are correct.”
First, he has statistics homework to finish. Later, he’ll work with his mother, Shu Chen Chien, to brush up on his Mandarin for his Chinese class. Then it’s over to the piano to prepare for his recital in music class.
His father, Yosef Cavalin, frets about the piano-playing, noting that his only child recently broke his arm pursuing another passion, martial arts. He has won several trophies for his age group.
“Finals are coming and everything and he cannot play with both hands. He’ll just try to play with the right hand,” he says. “I don’t know how his grade’s going to be in piano. It worries me a bit.”
If past success is any indication, his son will find a way to compensate. Cavalin, who enrolled in college more than a year ago, has maintained an A-plus average in such subjects as algebra, history, astronomy and physical education.
College officials couldn’t immediately say whether he is the youngest student in the school’s 63-year history. Among child prodigies, Michael Kearney, now 24, is often cited as the world’s youngest college graduate, having earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of South Alabama at age 10.
Cavalin’s professors can’t recall having a younger student in their classes.
“He is the youngest college student I’ve ever taught and one of the hardest working,” says Daniel Judge, his statistics professor. “He’s actually a pleasure to have in class. He’s a well- adjusted, nice little boy.”
Cavalin was an 8-year-old freshman when he enrolled in Guajao Liao’s intermediate algebra class in 2006. By the end of the term, Liao recalls, he was tutoring some of his 19- and 20-year-old classmates.
“I told his parents that his ability was much higher than that level, that he should take a higher-level course,” Liao says. “But his parents didn’t want to push him.”
Cavalin’s parents avoid calling their son a genius. They say he’s just an average kid who enjoys studying as much as he likes playing soccer, watching Jackie Chan movies, and collecting toy cars and baseball caps with tiger emblems on them. He was born during the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac.
Cavalin has a general idea what his IQ is, but doesn’t like to discuss it. He says other students can achieve his success if they study hard and stay focused on their work.
His parents say they never planned to enroll their son in college at age 8, and sought to put him in a private elementary school when he was 6.
“They didn’t want to accept me because I knew more than the teacher there and they said I looked too bored,” the youngster recalls.
His parents home-schooled him instead, but after two years decided college was the best place for him. East L.A. officials agreed to accept him if he enrolled initially in just two classes, math and physical education. After he earned A-pluses in both, he was allowed to expand his studies.
“He sees things very simply,” says Judge, his statistics teacher. “Most students think that things should be harder than they are and they put these mental blocks in front of them and they make things harder than they should be. In the case of Moshe, he sees right through the complications. … It’s not really mystical in any way, but at the same time it’s amazing.”
Imagine writing a program with over 100,000 downloads on the iPhone. It is a simple program, kind of an iPhone etch-a-sketch. Lim Ding Wen has already learned 6 programming languages. And, best of all, he is a Mac programmer!
Andrey has been interested in Astronomy since he was 4. At age 9, proved a new theory of the asteroid belt, that it was caused by a planet with many satellites.
Wendy is 6 in this video. She is now 8, and can speak 11 languages, and is even better at the piano and organ now.
his clip is of my three year old reciting some more world capitals (he now knows almost all of them, as well as all of the state capitals).
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