Kids want all the beautiful things of the world, and biscuits. From visits to Disney World, calls for ice cream and other wishes, kids’ demands are endless but here, is a kid, like a very few, who is endlessly being demanded for
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Esther Okade, then 10, enrolled at the Open University for her distance learning. She soon topped her class and scored 100% in an exam. Great debut, wasn’t it?
A mathematics genius, she did things that were light years ahead of a 10-year old kid, and that informed her outrageously early enrollment for a Ph.D.
She said of financial mathematics, a kind of mathematics that has caught her keen interest; “It’s so interesting. It has the type of maths I love. It’s real maths — theories, complex numbers, all that type of stuff,” she giggles. “It was super easy. My mum taught me in a nice way.”
Her mum, worried about her daughter’s complaint on not being allowed to participate in class at 3, decided to be her home tutor and soon, she discovered a rare ingenuity in her child.
Esther said two years ago; “I want to (finish the course) in two years. Then I’m going to do my PhD in financial maths when I’m 13. I want to have my own bank by the time I’m 15 because I like numbers and I like people and banking is a great way to help people.”
And in case people think her parents have pushed her into starting university early, Esther emphatically disagrees.
“I actually wanted to start when I was seven. But my mum was like, “you’re too young, calm down.” Her mother soon agreed to her mathematically ahead baby girl’s demands.
After three years of begging, mother Efe finally accepted to explore the idea.
Esther was never at par with her peers. She was always steps ahead and soon showed why she is.
She sat her first Math GSCE exam, a British high school qualification, at Ounsdale High School in Wolverhampton at just six, where she received a C-grade. One-year later, she went steps better, and got the A-grade she wanted.
