A Florida whiz kid beats the experts at the testing game
Most teen-agers would probably have been delighted to learn they had got 48 out of 50 questions right on a tough mathematical aptitude test. Not Daniel Lowen, 17, a junior at Cocoa Beach High School in Florida. Told his score in the math portion of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test that he took last fall along with 830,000 other students nationwide, Dan was displeased. He was convinced that his answer to question No. 44—one of those marked incorrect—was in fact correct. He even made a model to prove his case...
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