One afternoon, Lori Anderson and her 7-year-old, Lindsey, spotted a small maple tree in La Mirada, California. Anderson asked her daughter how many leaves she thought were on the tree. Lindsey’s guess ...

Like any 8-year-old math whiz, Bryan Henroid of Andover begged his father last year to help him win a tryout for the new TV game show celebrating the brightest kids in America, "Genius Junior." That ...

If there were as many kid geniuses in real life as there are in the movies, the world would not lack for future brainpower. Apparently there’s something about seeing a first-grader stride to a ...

A four-year-old “multilingual math whiz” from Illinois has been accepted into the prestigious Mensa society with his genius IQ. Zorien Royce of Vernon Hills is not your typical preschooler. He can ...

STEM learning might sound like some kind of fad simply because the acronym is fairly new, but the truth is that kids are hard-wired to find these academic disciplines (science, technology, engineering ...

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A primary school pupil achieved top grades in GCSE maths after taking the exams five years early. Harry Clark, 11, took higher maths and further maths GCSEs this year - having previously gained a GCSE ...

“I teach special ed, and people talk about [savant syndrome] when it comes to Asperger’s and autism but the truth is, that ...