10-Year-Old Gets Perfect 800 on Math SAT

[snopes]

Every once in a while a high school students gets a perfect score on the SAT, but a fifth grader?

http://www.news4jax.com/education/10992230/detail.html

[Troodon]

Gah! I took it in 7th grade and only got a 710 on the math! I had been so proud of that...

Edit: I can only hope that I did better than he did on the reading, but I did better in math than in reading so that's unlikely.

[Sister Ray]

I took it in sixth grade. I got a good reading score, but I think my math score was horrible because there was a lot of algebra, which I hadn't learned yet, so I just filled in random answers. When I took it for real in 11th grade, I did better on the math, but I still did not get what one would think of as a terrific score.

Sister "now ten year olds make me feel stupid..." Ray

[Fiver]

When kids these days (little kids such as this, not like me) are really good at a subject, why is it always math. I never hear of a biology or writing prodigy. Sometimes music, but most often, it's math. There must be a reason.

[RainyDaze]

Originally Posted by Fiver

When kids these days (little kids such as this, not like me) are really good at a subject, why is it always math. I never hear of a biology or writing prodigy. Sometimes music, but most often, it's math. There must be a reason.

Math is limited to understanding and working with a finite set of clearly defined rules. Applying those rules to solve math problems may require a great deal of intelligence but not so much experience.

Music, so I've been told, has some basis in math. Biology by comparison has more to learn before someone is considered good at it. Writing is generally done best by people with more experience in life.

[geminilee]

Not only that, but how do you show off writing prodigy(or biology, for that matter)? It is not as demonstrable as math. I was reading and writing at a college level in 4th grade, but how do you really show that? Even if you can measure it, it does not make good theater. Do you have a kid read a difficult passage and then answer questions about it Dissect a frog onstage? Doesn't make for great TV.