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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax hasn't produced the next Terence Tao, so no there aren't any geniuses or prodigies here. And if there were, it obviously wouldn't be because of AAP. Prodigues are doing university math in early ES way before FCPS has a chance to get involved.[/quote]

Terrance Tao should not be the lower limit of genius here. Math wise, we should be looking at how many MOPS or IMO participants there are. I think FCPS sends one very couple of years.  So I think FCPS does have its fair share of (math) geniuses[/quote]

Genius doesn't have a real, specific meaning anyway.

IMO is nowhere near the lower limit of who would get value from AAP. [/quote]

I think the Terrance Tao and IMO comments were to address whether FCPS has had any "real" geniuses within its midst.  The comments were not made to argue that AAP should only be available to IMO-level kids and above.

Each person has his/her own definition of genius, but I would hope that everyone's definition includes Terrance Tao and IMO kids. [/quote]

There are only around 50 MOPS participants in the country, spanning around 4-5 grade levels.  There are only 6 kids on the IMO team.  I would hope people have a much broader definition of genius than that.

For my part, I'd consider any kid above the 99.9th percentile to be a genius.  Even if you went with a 99.99th percentile cutoff, that would be around 500 kids per grade level in the US, which is still much less restrictive than only including the very small number of MOPS/IMO kids.  FCPS still on average should have between 1 and 2 of these kids per grade level.  [/quote]

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