Who am I? A guessing game

Posted on July 22, 2014 by MariaD — 10 Comments ↓

“Math is not linear.”

People say that, but do you believe it?

Here is the history of one person’s interaction with Khan Academy. Answer this person’s riddle: WHO AM I?

Judging by this historical document, how old do you think the person is? What is the grade level? Anything else you care to guess?

Yes, all these are trick questions. I will post the answer in comments on August 10th. Leave your guess as a comment and subscribe, to see the surprising answer.

Update: the mystery person revealed (see comments).

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10 comments on “Who am I? A guessing game”

1. Tew Fr. says:

   July 27, 2014 at 6:37 am

   Mastered many of elementary school skills and skipped high schools. No calculus at all. I guess he is elementary math teacher.

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2. Sean Wilson says:

   July 27, 2014 at 2:38 pm

   These are trick questions, so the obvious, a middle school student, or the above synical elementary schoolteacher must be wrong.
   This is a college graduate in engineering or physics about 26 years old running a profitable construction firm, let’s say Haliburton.

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3. Dor Abrahamson says:

   July 27, 2014 at 3:35 pm

   A US president?

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4. nora says:

   July 27, 2014 at 4:08 pm

   Probably Me:)

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5. David Wees says:

   July 27, 2014 at 4:16 pm

   I’m guessing it’s Maria Droujkova’s daughter although I would not be surprised if it’s from someone who is 7 as well.

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6. Alexandre Borovik says:

   July 28, 2014 at 11:34 am

   My guess: A homeschooled or self-taught kid.

   About 10 or 12 my classmates out of 24 in my class at the Novosibirsk FMSh (its decription can be found at http://education.lms.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/FMSh.pdf) spent, in their earlier childhood, long periods out of school because of illness or injury. They were staying in bed reading books (including mathematics textbooks) well beyond their age. I could of course be mistaken, but I think I recognise the pattern of jumping from one topic to another.

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7. Sue VanHattum says:

   July 28, 2014 at 1:36 pm

   Maybe a program that does random guesses?

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8. Sue VanHattum says:

   July 28, 2014 at 1:37 pm

   Or a program designed to improve its guesses over time (some sort of ai)?

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9. Rachel says:

   August 1, 2014 at 5:08 pm

   Could be me too, but I bet it’s you. Though the infographic raises a lot of questions. Are we to assume that the U.S. school grades present math concepts in a linear fashion with no overlap in skills from one grade to the next?

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10. MariaD says:

    August 14, 2014 at 11:27 am

    THE MYSTERY PERSON REVEALED!

    Age: 8
    Education: homeschool
    Location: Maryland, USA

    Joseph B. is the youngest of three kids. He likes engineering and science. In the couple of months since this screenshot was taken, he added some 15% of trig, and started calculus. We posted Joseph’s poem “Baby Civilization” last year: http://www.moebiusnoodles.com/2013/05/baby-civilization-poem/

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