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Aaurshi Maheshwari Child Mathematician
Aaurshi Maheshwari Child Mathematician
It was a Math Olympiad puzzle for 14-year-olds here that went viral in 2015: The
question about “Cheryl’s birthday”, which stumped grown-ups and made headlines
round the world Aarushi Maheshwari solved it at the age of nine. When Aarushi was
two and a half years old, she could “fluently” go through Oxford Reading Tree books
for four- to five-year-olds, Mrs Maheshwari told the programme On The Red Dot in
its series on Wonder Kids.At four or five, Aarushi started showing interest in maths,
testing two grades higher than children her age in preschool. Since then, she has
been on a constant search for one challenge after another.