Math Olympiad

The other day, Ace came home and told me that he has been selected to be trained in the pre-selection trial to take part in the math olympiad on behalf of his school.

Because 10 children in his class were selected, they have been named the Pla-TEN-ium group.

Because of this, he tries very hard at his math homework.. sometimes too hard..

Eg, this xiao kia will do EXTRA work he is not asked to do and end up do do do.. till 10pm then sleep.. and wake at 5am to finish it..

I think is cos he never pay attention in class and did not know what he has to do by when... grrr....

Anyway, after his exams, his teacher selected one more person to join the team and so they are called the First Eleven.

When he got his math results, he was a little sad and telling me that perhaps he will no longer be part of the group. Thank god he still is...

Anyway, since he is part of the group, I gave him an interesting question to see if he can do it..

It was a question that Max sent to me. He said he could not get the answer but I did:) haha.. actually the way the answer comes up is similar to that "When Is Cheryl's Birthday?" question that became very popular online a few weeks back.

Ace thought about it long and hard and kept mumbling to himself.. after half an hour and trying to give one answer which turned out to be wrong, he gave up:)

I explained the answer to him and asked him not to be too hard on himself for not getting it right as the difficulty level is as difficult as a math Olympiad question for secondary school students...

Next I will try get him to guess Cheryl's birthday! wahahahaa...

PS: Ace just told me that he has actually been put back in the HA Group and taken out of the olympiad team.. but actually he is more relieved than he is disappointed because he says it was too stressful and too much homework:) wahahaha

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