<p>I still can’t figure out what would possess someone to name their kid Magnus. I haven’t made it past that yet to the fact that he’s some crazy math genius, if I do, I’ll post later.</p>
<p>I’m a home school parent, not really by choice but from necessity. We tried the public (and private) school systems, but they all failed at schooling my child because they could not or would not accommodate his special needs for accelerated studies. I still work (full-time but from home), as does my husband. My son isn’t profoundly gifted, but he was reading fluently at 3 and asked to take Spanish classes, again at 3.
These gifted children are different. They don’t fit a regular pattern, they have their own obsessions and the parents need to adapt to them. My son is very kind to younger children, prefers people in their 80’s and his close friends are all at least 2 years older. He started his own business at 14…skipped 2 grades in school, and takes college courses in high school. He took his first college course when he was 10. Received an “A”. They aren’t like other kids and you can’t judge the kids or the parents by any normal standard.
I always feel sorry for the parents of profoundly gifted children (thank God my kid is not!) because they simply don’t know how to meet their needs. These kids will never be “normal” by regular standards, so loving parents have to discover what “normal” is for their child.
This child’s parents seem to be “unschoolers”, a form of home schooling where the children follow their own passions. My son requested more routine, but I have seen “unschooled” children enter Harvard. You’d have to live their lives to understand why they do what they do. These kids constantly surprise their parents…they think really differently, and we might be bright but we aren’t them. It’s not our place to sit in judgment.</p>
<p>That integral on his website … (int(e^-x^2)) they claim he solved.
<a href=“http://www.musicdolove.com/Mathematics/IntegralOfe-x2.html[/url]”>http://www.musicdolove.com/Mathematics/IntegralOfe-x2.html</a></p>
<p>there is literally no way he could solve this integral without help from his paents, a theorem such as fubinis is required to solve it…it is certainly not covered in those courses he claims to have taken…and the chances he found the only possible way to solve it on his own WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE of fubinis theorem is astronomical.</p>
<p>I call BS, his parents taught him how to solve it, he understood it, and parents gave him full credit for solving it on his page as if it were some miracle .</p>
<p>his parents are tools.</p>
<p>^^It’s covered in Multivariable Calc…but I still agree it’s hard to imagine an 8 year old doing that.</p>
<p>It might not be black and white. He could be naturally profoundly gifted and passionate about math, and have scary publicity parents at the same time. I don’t think we should judge, that’s all :)</p>
<p>i feel sorry for this kid. His parents are treating him like a robot. Math is useless if you do not even know how to have a conversation with another human being.</p>
<p>Where is page 10? That kid has an unusual voice.</p>
<p>Did anyone else catch the youtube clip of this boy speaking? IMO–there is something “off” about him. He sounds like a 5 year old with a very strong speech impediment–his speech inflection, tone, pronunciation are very strange. Also, he sounds as if he’s been programed in his response. His father takes a bit too much pride bragging about how HE discovered his son’s talents and how HE quit his job to focus on the boy. </p>
<p>I don’t see anything good coming out of this whole scenario. Overloaded on math and piano by his parents—sheltered from kids his own age. Other than the fact that he’s a math and piano whiz, he seems delayed in speech, communication, and maturity. I hope the father steps back a bit and lets his son experience some of the natural developmental stages of childhood. Right now, the boy seems more like a programmed robot. I see big problems ahead for him. Where is the balance in his life? Math and piano-----there’s more to life than this and if this boy remains under his father’s thumb, I don’t see him developing into a mentally healthy adult. Just my opinion.</p>
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<p>I did. I think he’s probably a high-functioning autistic. People with autism or Asperger’s syndrome (also part of the autism spectrum) sometimes speak mechanically and have vocal or physical tics. Not being around other kids probably doesn’t help, but that’s not necessarily the cause of his oddness.</p>
<p>This isn’t meant to sound mean or anything, bu he sounds like a little girl. </p>
<p>Where is the 10th page of this thread? It says there are 10 pages, but every time I click on the # 10, it reverts right back to page 9 again.</p>
<p>mantori, The first thing that came to my mind while listening to the boy was that he fell somewhere within the autism spectrum. I don’t know for sure because I didn’t see any mention of it on the links I found on the web about the boy. Not only are his inflections and tones off, but he has quite a severe speech impediment. I still feel that the father needs to back off on focusing on his son’s math and piano skills and start focusing on providing therapies to help this boy gain the skills that he seems to be lacking.</p>