[News] 12 Year Old Nigerian Kid Wins Special Recognition Award As He Discovers New Mathematical Formular

The notion about Nigerians being geniuses is not just a simple one cause Nigerians have been written down in history as great idealist and inventors. The latest entry into the world of geniuses is that of 12 year old Chika Ofili as he has been awarded the TruLittle Hero award for finding out a new formula that can be used for division in maths.

According to information from Linda Ikeji's blog, Miss Mary Ellis who is Chika's mathematic's teacher and also the head of the mathematics department at Westminster Under School said that Chika discovered the new formula while solving a holiday assignment.

Miss Mary Ellis revealed that she gave Chika a book called First Steps for Problem Solvers (published by the UKMT) to study during the holidays. The book had several divisibility tests which are used to quickly work out whether a number is exactly divisible by either 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 before you start dividing, but had no easy or memorable test listed for checking divisibility by 7.

Chika however solved this and also had an algebraic proof to back it up. His new formula involves taking the last digit of any whole number, multiplying it by 5 and then adding it to the remaining part of the number to get a new number. If this new number is divisible by 7, then the original number is divisible by 7.

Source: Linda Ikeji's Blog