Are you smarter than a Canadian 15 year old

martian

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Dec 3rd 2013, 16:06:50

(at math)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/...year-old/article15720199/

I got them all correct doing most of it in my head :P
I seem to remember doing these types of problems at a younger age though..

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Dec 3rd 2013, 16:24:41

Yea, I was going to say, isn't 15 like grade 10? Those seem a lot more like grade 6 problems, so... age 11?

And I did them all (correctly!) in my head too :)

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ericownsyou5

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Dec 3rd 2013, 16:32:28

The km pieces threw me off a little, but answered them correctly as well.

martian

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Dec 3rd 2013, 17:07:59

@qz: I think so. I suspect they just took the simplest ones from the test:p.

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Dec 3rd 2013, 17:20:53

The math contests I did in grade 9 (age 14) were way the fluff harder than this anyway; there was a lot of trig and algebra....

There, these are age grade 9 (age 14) problems: http://mathematica.ca/flash/pytha_eng/pytha01.swf

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Dec 3rd 2013, 17:24:18

And these are grade 10 (age 15) problems... http://mathematica.ca/flash/fibo_eng/Fibo01.swf

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martian

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Dec 3rd 2013, 17:28:44

yes, I won cash prizes for both of those contests. I should look at them now and see if I can do them. A lot of them were linear programming and trig oriented iirc.

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Dec 3rd 2013, 17:33:51

yea; this seems to be a short sample of the first problems; the later problems were much more difficult i do recall...

and Cash prizes? =/ I never got any money, and I had the top score in my school! though not perfect...

Though i guess they sent me to the UofC(algary) for a math camp....

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qzjul

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Dec 3rd 2013, 17:35:59

http://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/contests/past_contests.html

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Dec 3rd 2013, 21:10:54

I'm sure I'm smarter than a Canadian 15-year-old. Not sure which one, but there's got to be one out there I can outwit.

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Dec 3rd 2013, 21:50:12

blid your monthly post on AT reveals your desire to come join this cesspool. just say the word ...

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Dec 4th 2013, 20:01:17

btw did any other americans try to do this test? the numbers are all in metric system, so we can't do it! :P

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martian

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Dec 4th 2013, 20:04:50

there is only one question there that requires any kind of metric unit conversion :p
Plus in the US 1/2 the stuff is in metric anyway

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locket

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Dec 4th 2013, 21:16:22

Misread one of the questions but got the rest right. Knew the answer once I reread the problem after messing it up though :P

Trife

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Dec 4th 2013, 22:56:25

i might not be smarter than a canadian 15 year old, but i can surely kick a canadian 15 year olds' ass

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Dec 5th 2013, 0:16:45

That's like saying your the smartest kid with autism... Aint no winners in that situation!

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Vic

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Dec 5th 2013, 1:53:46

Originally posted by Requiem:

That's like saying your the smartest kid with autism... Aint no winners in that situation!

req next to this guy you and i both lose :p

http://www.nydailynews.com/...instein-article-1.1340923

Nuketon

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Dec 5th 2013, 4:37:12

I did all in my head, correctly. The only two I had to really think about were 3 and 6

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Dec 5th 2013, 4:45:10

Originally posted by qzjul:

Though i guess they sent me to the UofC(algary) for a math camp....

They sent me to OUC (Okanagan) to do another test when I won my school. No bloody cash prizes though :/

In BC they tested at grade 8, 10, and 12. And the tests were significantly harder than these questions.