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1blackbeauty
Posted: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:11:31 AM

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Paula and Peter Imafidon are just like any other 9-year-olds. They love laughing, playing on the computer and fighting with each other. What sets these twins apart from their peers, though, is that they are, hands down, prodigies who are about to enter high school and make British history as the youngest to do so.

These precocious London-based tykes, known as the "Wonder Twins," floored academics a year ago when they aced University of Cambridge's advanced mathematics exam. They are the youngest students to ever pass the test.




The future little scholars' father, Chris, and mother, Ann, immigrated to Britain from Nigeria more than 30 years ago and have actually been down this prodigy route before with their three older children, who are also overachievers.

The couple's oldest daughter, Anne-Marie, is now 20, but at age 13, she won a British government scholarship to take undergraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Christiana, 17, their other daughter, is the youngest student ever to study at the undergraduate level in any British University at the age of 11. Youngest daughter, Samantha, now 12, passed two rigorous high school–level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6. She mentored the twins to pass their own math secondary school test when they were also 6.

Even with all of this, the proud dad denies that there is any particular genius in his family. He does credit his children's success to the Excellence in Education program for disadvantaged inner-city youth. "Every child is a genius," he said. "Once you identify the talent of a child and put them in the environment that will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters -- they were nurtured. You can never rule anything out with them. The competition between the two of them makes them excel in anything they do."

The darling duo are competitive to say the least, and this is what fuels them to out-achieve each other. Paula said, "I am excited to pass, but I should have got higher than Peter."

As far as career paths Paula says she wants to be a math teacher, while Peter aspires to be prime minister one day.

All it takes is a dream....
1blackbeauty
Posted: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:14:06 AM

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To the person who emailed me and said that I am too negative...when it comes to Jamaica....lol..I hope you can see..that I am passionate...about my people...
I do not care what island or country or continent they are on.

I just shared with you...stories that I read or follow up on..web sites that I visit daily....welcome to my world.
Such is the criticism an activist receives.

Now...
Are these children British or African?

again...rhetorical question.
hungrymanxx
Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2010 1:47:47 AM
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Their ethnicity African and their nationality British. I taught people of different races for five years. During those five years of teaching I have noticed that no race is smarter than the other. Every racial group has both smart and dumb people in them. I also observed that the environment that a child grew up in helps to determine if the child will be smart or dumb.
1blackbeauty
Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2010 2:29:04 PM

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hungrymanxx wrote:
Their ethnicity African and their nationality British. I taught people of different races for five years. During those five years of teaching I have noticed that no race is smarter than the other. Every racial group has both smart and dumb people in them. I also observed that the environment that a child grew up in helps to determine if the child will be smart or dumb.




Yeah, I know...thanks..
I was saying it more from a point, that when black folk do good, then we can be a part of them..but as soon as we do something bad...they do not want anything to do with us...
But this article...mentioned that they were African...which is a good thing.
JUMBI
Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2010 5:04:45 PM
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hhhhh,no race is better than the other but we are all smart in our own way,yet some are smarter than others..chinese,japanese,and most southeast asians are smarter in math and sciencies than most..now thats a fact..lol
hungrymanxx
Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2010 9:32:03 PM
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The chinese and Japanese school curriculms place lot more emphasis on math and science and so these people tends to be good in math and science. This is the reason why I mentioned that the environment has alot to do with smartness and dumbness. If other races had similar school curriculums they would also be high performers in math and science. I had taught a few Asians and I did not noticed anything spectacular about their performance. There were also smart and not so smart Asian students in my classroom
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