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A ninth-grade student was the featured speaker at a special mathematics colloquium at Towson State University's Mathematics Department and the Center for Mathematics and Science Education in May 1994. A colloquium in the mathematics department was nothing unusual, but the age of the speaker distinguished this one. In this article, we describe what made the colloquium so intriguing and the subsequent activities it generated.

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