MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY.
ONLY SIX YEARS OLD
A child wonder, with unusual mental powers, attends a school at Findly, Ohio. He is Master Roy Fork, aged six, and the son of a local well-dnller. While bright in all his school work, the boy is a prodigy in mathematics. He knows the calender by heart, and although plied with the most severe questions m regard to days and dates he never makes a mistake. _ If you tell him your age he can tell in a second the year you were born and it you give him the date of your birthday, and asls him what day of the week it, comes on lie replies at once correctly and without fail.- '■
Although not customary to teach children the months, Hoy mastered them when he went to kindergarten and the remarkable feature is that he was never taught. He is also as quick,as lightning in solving problems which deal with ?d----aition and subtraction of the calendar, and cabch questions have no terror fcr him.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17005, 5 June 1917, Page 6
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170MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17005, 5 June 1917, Page 6
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