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Alan Scott

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They basically did fine, because they had enough general reasoning skills at that age to learn in weeks what would have taken months or years for younger kids, so were able to quickly catch up.

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I think in theory that speaks to a strong possibility of successfully learning math later in life. In practice, though, adult remedial math classes are probably structured for students who are bad at math, rather than for clever kids who previously lacked access to education.

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