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Evangkatsoulis:
Nice mnemonics. But why not use memory palace instead?

I use all manner of techniques but never really used memory palace. Sometimes, I form an imaginary story. I basically use Encoding,Memory Address method by attaching a tag to each info, Linking method and comedy to remember serious stuffs.

TSRC:
Yeah.
I have heard of the Raytheon competition, through I don't really follow it.

When it comes raw book, the Asians are in charge.
Maybe Western Europe can compete with them, but definitely not America.

The irony though is that the best minds in Asia will move to America and the benefits goes to the US eventually.
Though China is beginning to retain their own minds.

Yes, There is a serious brain drain in India as well. Ever heard of IIT, India? That is where all the geniuses in India go to. It will be easier for a needle to pass through the eye of a camel than to gain admission there. Now, when most people finish there, they get snapped up by American companies paricularly the IT Companies and the big players(Google, Microsoft etc).Those guys remain in American and barely contribute to India. America is an expert at taking talents

dalexy101037:
Natural wave and nL 1960.. I appreciate you guys for explaining. O really thought those kids are performing magic every time. Now I understand is hard-work, dedication. Human brain can do anything in as much the owner of the brain is willing to embrace the process

You are welcome bro. These children master the basics though from primary school. Mathematics is an art. There are ways to solve basic operations of division, multiplication and the likes in less than 10 seconds and less than 5 seconds with constant practice. These children do not battle with those basics anymore. They are first of all, a walking calculator. So, if they are solving a question and they have to multiply something in the process, they just write the answer. They do not start doing normal multiplication or division like most people would do

TSRC:
I just checked it.
He must be an absolute genius.

It is a shame we have only managed to win bronzes, and most of them from a single individual, despite having nearly a hundred representatives.
I didn't want to check for China so as not to ruin my mood.

I follow the IMO and it is tough bro. A bronze medal at the IMO is something that I cannot even quantify the significance.If you win a bronze medal, your IQ should be comparable to those of Pascal, Lagrange, Lebesque and other mathematical greats. There was a time CHINA won for years. When USA finally won some years back, the country celebrated as though they won the World cup. Guess what? Out of the American team of 4 students, 3 of them are Asians and even the last 1 looks like half Asian, half American . Online trolls mocked America and said America won it because their team was filled with Asians. Do you follow "Raytheon Mathscount" competition? That is another crazy one in America. That is their version of Cowbellpedia. You can follow the channel. See a clip attached below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFTeN17Z4rc&t=581s

MathsEconomics:
naturalwaves you might be interested in "Chiagozie Henry Aniobi" here
https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=19734


At the International Mathematics Olympiad (one of the most difficult exams in the world), Nigeria managed to accumulate just 5 bronze medals despite having been participating since 2006. Guess what? 4 out of the 5 bronze belongs to Chiagozie alone.
He is the most successful Mathematics competitor in Nigerian history.

Here's a list for you to verify
https://www.imo-official.org/country_individual_r.aspx?code=NGA&column=year&order=desc

Thanks for sharing. Let me relax and have a good read.

Gerrard59:
You're experienced in the game. Regarding my preparation, my only weak point was (and still is) the Oscars or anything relating to movies and general entertainment/arts related information. Other than that, I literally covered everything that ought to be covered.

Too bad no firm continued from where MTN stopped. One needs to be buoyant to sponsor similar programs for the upcoming generation.

I am not a Movie person too. I had to learn strategically. For example, the highest number of Oscar awards that has ever been won by any movie is 11 and only 3 movies won this. They are Ben Hur(1959), Titanic(1997), Lord of the Rings(2001). The formula therefore is BEN HUR'S TITANIC IS THE LORD OF THE RINGS . Only 1 movie won 10 awards and that is West Side Story which came out in 1961. 3 movies have won 9 awards and they are The English Patient, Gigi, The Last Emperor. Sentence formula is The English patient with the Gigi has gone to see The Last Emperor. The English Patient was sick so she could not watch Nigeria play at the 1996 Olympics - This means that the movie was released in 1996. A friend of mine named Dammy was born in 1987. I will just say.....Dammy is the Last Emperor- Means the movie came out in 1987 and so on . If we move to 8, about 7 Movies have won 8 Oscar awards. The sentence formula is My Fair Lady named Armadius Gandhi has Gone With The Winds. I learnt she has now become a SlumDog Millionnaire. Therefore, the Movies are 1. My Fair Lady 2. Armadius, 3. Gandhi, 4. Gone with the winds, 5. Slum dog millionnaire etc etc. I cannot remember my formulas again. Been a while.Knowing almost all of them will help you to eliminate options even if you do not know the particular question so well.It was such a pity I did not get to sit on the hot seat. I doubt if I would get less than a 5 million naira if I did. During recordings, I supply answers to the advanced questions before options.

See My formula for the history of the world cup and past winners. The world cup started in 1930

UI² N² Read as UI square N square.....Uruguay, Italy, Italy, No competition, No competition (1930- 1946)

UGB²E. Read as UGBE SQUARE.....Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Brazil, England (1950-1966)

BGAIA.....Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Argentina (1970- 1986)

GBFBI........Germany, Brazil, France, Brazil, Italy (1990- 2006)

and so on.............I was a walking encyclopedia at that time. Wetin I no memorise. All countries and capitals, all past American Presidents, all presidents of each country, all currencies, all rivers in Europe, Africa etc. I just dey read like mad. So, when the show is on and I supply answers, people usually wonder why I am not on the hot seat since I do not even wait for options. lol. I did not have that element of luck. I was beside Aroma Ufodike before his recording started and I was just like who is this guy disturbing me(he was smoking)....not knowing he would win 10 million naira that day

spyglaxx:
When is SPAK by interswitch starting?

I do not have an idea

fjjc:
If this country want to attain her status in the committe of nations I say this is the way to go.

You know , our sports is dead too due to a lack of competition. There should be District, Local government, State and then National competition for sports at all levels . That way, we will get our best for the Nation. Usain Bolt was already a Champion at Junior school level before he advanced to the senior and we can all see the result. If you go to Jamaica and ask them who the best 100m, 200m, 400m runners in the country are in the secondary school level at both Junior and Senior category, they know! No magomago , nothing and you can see why they keep on doing well despite limited resources. Our performance at the International Mathematics Olympiad has not been impressive at all. We still have a lot to do as a nation.

dejai99:
The preliminary up to the semi final have already been done. Though not yet aired. My school is in the final (junior category).

In media, the recording usually precede the airing. Let us see how the airing goes. Don't let the cat out of the bag o

dalexy101037:
Pls, I still don't understand something about this cowbellpedia. This kids answer this mathematics question few seconds after the quizmaster or anchor read out the question. My question is, have they seen or worked out the question before? If my observation is right, this kids answer it just seeing the question on the screen, few or rare occasion takes time to work it out. If my observation is right, then give me some minute to cry and give myself some heavy knocks on my head. Olodo ni mi mhen.

. You are a clown. I swear!
As a teacher, I can tell you that the brain of a child can be moulded to learn anything no matter how complex it is. A primary 1 child can be taught Algebria. A child in primary school can master Calculus.

Have you ever heard of Judith Polgar? Judith Polgar is the woman with the highest IQ and a Chess grandmaster. Her dad used her to perform an experiment to show that Genuiuses are made and not born. He taught his children personally at home with Chess as a major subject . The rest they say is history. You can read more on this wikipedia page here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

nonjebose:
Thanks so much for this breath of fresh air. I suggest you post updates of the weekly show on this platform. I believe nairaland mods would push it to the front page.

I intend to do that. I just hope they will give it a space on the front page like they do to BBNaija and the likes. Had to call them severally before this one was moved to the front page. Thank God they finally moved it. The organisers of the show are not even doing enough to promote it. The Youtube channel for example, usually attract few views and few comments and that is not right. These sort of competition needs to be publicised and drummed and made mouth watering. Viewers should look forward to episodes. Children should be made to watch and that is why I am just trying the little I can to promote the show.

TSRC:
It is expensive.
But if MTN can do it, I don't see why others can't.

Yeah right.

Gerrard59:
"I almost passed out"
"What you did to me, was it fair?"
"That was huge"



There was an edition where a dude in the final stage didn't look at the screen neither did he try to calculate to arrive at the answers. I think he got about one or two questions wrong. I was stunned that day!

No vex
It was after that semi final I concluded that the guy was going to win the competition and he won!

kings59:
He even said it then that he wanted unilag.

It pained me too that he didn't make it.

It's like they have past questions they use to read and it will definitely come out during the quiz.

I am also a graduate of mathematics, back then I would pretend as if I were them and to know my speed accuracy on answering questions, but were are dam too fast.


During primary and secondary, the brain is always sharp and fast because your parents will support and care for you, but when at the university or school, men!! you will reason reasons like;
How will I eat today?

How will I pay my house rent?

How will I buy hand outs?

How much will I give this my Gf?

How shall I tell my parents I need another money?

many more.....

That's just the way life is.

They do not use past questions to prepare for the 60 seconds of fame o. They trained for it. They know what to look out for in a question. They do not listen to the quiz master,they read on their own and begin to solve fast. Hence, the speed. I have seen a couple of them preparing with their teachers and it is a whole lot of hardwork.

You are right about the brain. When I started work and started post graduate studies, I thought I had offended someone in the Village . When I was an undergraduate, I can say "no sleep today" or "I am reading for 8 hours straight" and my body, mind and everything will cooperate. Now, I cannot even read for 3 hours straight without getting tired

Gerrard59:
You don tey for this game oh. I only wished to be part of the audience as I wasn't in Lagos. Three years ago, I attempted to be part of the contestants for FFF. I got called and asked which number was Obama as the US president. Few months later, the show got desponsored.

EEyah. I tried to get to the hot seat as well and read like mad............geography o, oscars o, grammy o etc. I could recite all the past presidents of America , all the Oscar award winning movies and the amount they won etc. I read like mad but never got called up. My roomate was called because I also used his number to dial and I told him to mention my name if he ever gets a call since he was not prepared for the hot seat. When he was called, he forgot and mentioned his name. He was asked that, how many stars are on the US flag. He said 2 instead of 50 and that was how he blew his shot at FF. You do not have to get the answer correct though. If they call 8 people, they will first pick those who are the closest to the answer and begin to call others.

TSRC:
Nigerians need to petition the private sector to bring back WWTBM.

NLNG, Total or any of those oil companies can sponsor it as part of their CSR.
Even Glo or the Tier 1 banks like Zenith, First bank, GTB or Access can sponsor it.

100 million should be enough to rum the program for a year which is chicken feed compared to their yearly profits in Nigeria.

I am telling you. However, they will argue that they cannot be coerced into sponsoring any project. We can only appeal. There are enough ideas for intellectually stimulating games but no sponsor. If you want to air a show for just say 1 hour on a local station, it will not be less than 2 million naira. Meanwhile, that is just 1 station in 1 week o. 4 weeks = 8 million. 5 stations equals 40 million naira per month. ..............and that is just airtime alone o.

Gerrard59:
You don tey for this game oh. I only wished to be part of the audience as I wasn't in Lagos. Three years, I attempted to be part of the contestants for FFF. I got called and asked which number was Obama as the US president. Few months later, the show got desponsored.

Frank and the whole production crew sef sabi my face. Omo, guys use that thing hustle o. About 20 of my deparmental mates and friends do travel to Lagos every Friday to enter studio first thing on Saturday morning. I dey send myself invite sef if I no get invite. Don't ask me how
The memo in my wallet is filled with ABCD(Alphabet things). I dey always recite ABCD like say I dey Nursery because na my hustle be that o and dey fit talk say make we arrange words according to the right alphabetical order on Saturday . I chop wella sha

nams77:
Jeez! This is painful and evil. How can we grow when merit is not encouraged

If the spot to be filled is 120, they will do 120/6 and that will be 20 per Geo political zone.
SW ....20.
SE....20 etc etc

You may even score 90% in the exam and not be part of those 20 selected from the zone. You may not even be part of top 50 in the zone. Someone will now score 54% in another zone and qualify

Gerrard59:
I admire his demeanour. So calm. He already looks like a researcher sef. It's good to know these folks are obtaining their education at top institutions. Hopefully, one or some will win the Fields Medal or the Wolf's Prize in Mathematics one day. Something which no black person has ever won.

If you watch his documentary, you will notice how calm and humble he is. He is popularly called Professor. His small table at home where he reads is filled with books as though he is a university lecturer. His sister said that his food gets cold as he never eats when it is served. Rather, he must finish solving whatever he is doing before he does anything else. He talks about God every time. A couple of times, he could not pay his school fees at Adeyemi College of Education Demonstration school, Ondo but the school usually intervene due to his brilliance according to his dad. He is from a humble background but here he is in far away Russia studying Aeronautics Engineering. He will definitely take proper care of his parents when he gets out of school and gets a good job. He was studying Civil Engineering at University of Ibadan before he got his scholarship. I doubt if he had spent up to 1 year at University of Ibadan before the scholarship came.

Gerrard59:
Quotas have never worked anywhere to uplift a group to prosperity. Whether by clamouring for more women in politics or business or advocating for affirmative action in admissions or federal character. In Malaysia, Chinese Malays earn more than ethnic Malays even though the government policies favour ethnic Malays. In Nigeria, after the civil war that had 3MN+ Igbos massacred and left them in penury. Today, same Igbos top academic tables (UTME, WASSCE, SSCE etc) whereas northerners who got preferential treatment (aka federal character) constitute the vast majority of young Nigerians who are out of school. In the US, early in the 20th century, there were more white students of Jewish heritage at New York's elite high school - Stuyvesant. However, currently there are more Asian students in the school than whites and blacks combined. But they (Asian students) didn't achieve that through affirmative action, which in my opinion promotes mediocrity. So when I see folks support quota system, I shudder at it because it does more harm than good to the group. The bad thing about the federal character is that: no school in the north will ever produce a winner in Cowbellpedia because the bar has been set too low for them to compete against the best. How can they (where the cut-off is 60) compete against persons whose cut-off point is 97?

On Cowbellpedia, my sister has participated thrice at the state's level but intense competition didn't see her get to the regional stage. It's an edutaining competition and I hope it continues. Ever since Zain African Challenge and WWTBAM weren't sponsored, only Cowbellpedia has been Nigeria's intellectually stimulating programme.

Regarding the juxtaposition to BBN, I believe it's out of place. Simple economics state that companies will sponsor programs where they can churn out profit over others where profits don't exist. The vast majority of Nigerians prefer BBN to Cowbellpedia. As a result, it gets more sponsorship. It's the free market. Anyone who desires for more intellectual programs should create them.

Your analysis is top notch and right on point. When I was in secondary school, a smart friend of mine left Lagos and registered in a Northern school in a Northern state. He was the State Champion and wrote the National exam with about 35 other candidates. That time, it was just 1 per state. If he had written in Lagos, he may not have even made top 50 talk more of emerging as a state winner.

We should say NO to quota system. It has done more harm than good. It broke my heart that WWTBAM is no more. I was always a regular member of the audience. I made a couple of 20ks from the show as an undergraduate. Show really helped me. Imagine having about 17k to buy food stuff and provisions in school as an undergraduate years ago. In fact, I got my first laptop from my WWTBAM audience play winnings.

computergeek:
Your expectations are as trashy as the phone you are using to type. Awon expecter :

Why are you unnecessarily belligerent my dear? .
Calm down. Okay?

DemonInSiege:
Chinedu Mgbemena the winner of Cowbellpedia 2018



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBTIti2noH4

Chinedu is on another level. Chinedu is a walking Mathematics. Chinedu is a genius. If you check out his semi final performance for the 60 seconds of fame, you will be awed. Dude came with beast mode. The boy is too good
Watch the video below. You can jump to time frame 45:23 to see his beast mode activated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBsOGzQqmyQ&t=2909s

TSRC:
Big big money school.

When I served in ota, I met with the proprietor of ambassadors college, ota.
He told me jokingly that he does not want parents from ota because they can't pay school fees.

Good education is an expensive investment.

Lolz. He wants those from Lekki right?
Good education cannot be free. In my school, pupils in Primary 2 work perfectly well on Excel.... Can gather data, launch the program, put them into cells and even use pictograms and different graphs to represent the information. In the secondary school, students pack A1 in WASSCE like beans. Imagine having up to 10 Mathematics teachers in a Primary school alone and having multiple teachers to teach you as well in the secondary. Imagine having at least 2 teachers to teach you Physics and the likes. How you no go score A1 when dem no swear for you. . Don't ask me for the name though.

Bbbwings:
Na wa o
I'm angry

Lolz

TSRC:
Naturalwaves, list the schools that have consistently performed over the years.

It could help parents make informed choices.

The Ambassadors College Ogun

Ota Total Academy Ogun

Topfaith PH

Graceland school PH

Marist Brother Juniorate Abia

Loyola Jesuit College Abuja

Jesuit Memorial Rivers

Bibo Oluwa Osun

Nigerian Turkish International/ Nigerian Tulip International Colleges

Federal Government Academy, Suleja

Reality High school Osun

Scholars Universal Ogun
Hallmark Secondary school, Ondo.

Deeper Life school, Delta has really been trying too recently and a host of others but those schools listed there are so consistent

For example, all the students presented for National examination for the senior category from Marist Brothers Juniorate, Uturu, Abia state all qualified for the quiz show. All of them scored between 98% to 100%. None scored even a 97 %..... and there are about 5 of them.

There was a year Ambassadors College had multiple contestants even at the game show final. There was a year Ambassadors College won both the Junior and Senior categories of the finals to emerge National champions.That same year, they were 1st,2nd and 3rd in both Junior and Senior categories

TSRC:
There are some select schools that do well in this competition over the years.

Wise would-be parents should take note of those schools.

Graceland college Port Harcourt.

Ambassadors College Ota (The Osewa school )
And a few others.

They perform very strongly every year. Their teachers must be top notch.

You forgot Marist Juniorate , Ota Total Academy, Bibo Oluwa, Loyola Jesuit, Nigerian Turkish International, Top Faith, Federal Government College Suleja and the likes. Guess what? They are all coming back.

nams77:
To some extent you might be right. But the school alone does not confer intelligence on an individual. There are many dull students in top notched school.

Though i won't deny that the class of school also has a role to play. In all sha, na to hustle hard o. I don already start, na just for God to continue go the increase him pikin so that we can continue with the standard of education

As a teacher that has taught in both classes of schools, I can tell you that the kind of school one attends plays a major role in shaping an individual. If an extremely brilliant child in a Public school is taken to a good school, he will turn to a winch. If an average child in a government school is taken to a far better school, he will turn to a brilliant child. Some government schools are still standard by the way but the gap is much my brother.

sweetchi1011:
which channel and what time, please?

Check the 2nd post from the bottom on page 1 and you will see the details there. The specific time slots for the local stations have not been stated yet. So, it is better you follow from YouTube if you do not want to miss any episode.

nams77:
This is evil!

NNPC uses same quota system for recruitment. If you score 85% and you are from SW, you may not smell the next stage whereas, another person from the North may get 50% and go on to the next stage.

IamProdigy:
Wow wish I could like this 14 times!

Excellence and greatness in one piece..

Aeronautics was always in my mouth as a kid... But schools here ain't offering that...had to veer of a bit.

Baba God...am still very young...
Help me play on the Global scene too

You will realize your dreams.

[quote author=Cosbyrich post=80962234][/quote]I follow them personally but you can check out the past winners on wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbellpedia

kings59:
I remember Ayodeji, Munachiso. Those two were perfect and confident.


The fastest in the 60 seconds of fame with many answers is still Emmanuel.

Try and Google Emmanuel 60 seconds of fame in cowbellpedia and see for your self.

Let me view this Jesse of a guy.

Emmanuel Mebude is now at the University of Lagos where he is studying Systems Engineering.

I almost wept when he did not make the finals. He missed just 1 question in the objective section of the semi final and scored 55/60. 3 of the other contestant scored 60/60.So,they advanced to the 60 seconds of fame while he bowed out. Had he made the finals, Munachi would have it so hot. These kids are just too good. All of them!