AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy is hoping to add his name to the record books at Brentwood School by becoming the youngest pupil ever to pass a maths A level.
For mini-mathematician Andrew Ejamai, calculating times tables and long division came as easy as 1-2-3.
And while his age group are grasping the basics of Key Stage 2 maths, such as understanding four-figure numbers, the whizzkid studies logarithms, trigonometry and algebra in an upper sixth form class, with pupils seven years his senior.
He has already passed two of the six modules he needs to claim his A Level to A* standard, which he managed by teaching himself at home, and he now joins 17 and 18-year-olds for lessons as often as his timetable will allow.
His talent for calculation first came to light when he was just six and his ability bamboozled primary school teachers.
Andrew's mother Ronke, explained how staff at St Edward's, in Romford, "didn't know what to do with him". So the family transferred him to the Ingrave Road private school in September 2010, where he remains one year ahead of his age group for all subjects.
In June this year, Andrew, from Dagenham, was officially ranked within the top 50 young mathematicians in the country when he competed in the National Junior Mathematics Olympiad against around 1,200 children, some as old as 13.
Mrs Ejamai said both her and Andrew's father, Sony, are scratching their heads as to where his gift comes from.
But for Andrew, who achieved an A* in GCSE mathematics when he was nine, it is all rather fun.
He said: "I like solving equations, I find it really fun and I feel really happy when I have solved a really hard equation.
"When I went in with the sixth formers at first it was quite scary because they are much older, but then I just got used to it and now it feels good."
Outside school, Andrew occasionally uses his extraordinary brain to tot up bills or calculate how much change he is owed in shops.
The Arsenal-mad youngster, who also loves school sports and plays the cello and piano, will sit core modules three and four as well as papers on mechanics and decision mathematics to get his qualification.
Brentwood School's head of mathematics, Jon Williams, said he is already taking advice from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge about how to progress Andrew's studies. It is expected he will take an A Level in further mathematics.
He said: "I have been here 18 years and we have had some very able students go to our school, but a student studying A-level maths at this age? I have never seen it before."
When he is older Andrew wants a career in engineering.
In 2011, Yasha Asley, from Leicester, became the youngest person ever to pass an A Level with a grade A – he was eight.
