RSM-Irvine

Happy Independence Day!

We are excited to recognize Rishant Pinnama Reddy in RSM’s “Minds of the future” project. Rishant joined RSM Irvine in third grade. In addition to our core curriculum, Rishant is enrolled in the RSM Math Competition Preparation class and stands out as a hardworking student and a wonderful friend to his peers.
Rishant’s creativity and outside-the-box thinking have helped him to achieve remarkable results in various math competitions. His accomplishments include:
AMC 8 – Honor Roll, Certificate of Achievement,
MOEMS Division E/M – Top Two Percent,
Noetic Learning Math Contest – Honor Roll, Team Winner,
Math Kangaroo – Rank 10 National and State,
We are proud of Rishant’s dedication and success, and we look forward to seeing all he will accomplish in the future!

📅 June 28 – Perfect Numbers Day!

🌟 Why today? Because 6 and 28 — the first two perfect numbers — match today’s date: 6/28! A perfect match for a perfect celebration of these rare mathematical objects.

🏛️ Why "perfect"? Ancient Greek scholars studied numbers whose proper divisors — that is, all positive divisors excluding the number itself — add up to the number. They called such numbers perfect. Take 6: its divisors are 1, 2, and 3, and guess what? 1 + 2 + 3 = 6! Perfect! The next one is 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. Cool, right?

🔍 Perfect numbers are quite rare: the third perfect number is 496, and the fourth is 8,128! Notice how each perfect number is way bigger than the previous one? This makes finding new ones incredibly challenging! Only 52 perfect numbers have been found so far! And the greatest known perfect number has over 80 million digits in it! Crazy!

🤔 We still don’t know if there are infinitely many perfect numbers. Nor do we know if an odd perfect number exists (all known ones are even!). There are still many mysteries in this old area of research!

🔬 Fun fact: A Russian priest named Ivan Pervushin found the 9th perfect number in 1883 using only pen and paper – it had 39 digits! Imagine doing that by hand!

🎯 Challenge time: check yourself that 496 and 8128 are indeed perfect!

Summer School is here!
Get ready for 6 weeks of math fun in a creative and exciting environment!
Hands-on learning
Creative problem-solving
Tons of fun!
Learn more about our summer school program here : https://www.mathschool.com/locations/irvine/schedule

📢 Dear Southern California Families, we’re thrilled to announce that RSM Chino Hills is coming soon!

13 years ago, our first SoCal branch, RSM-Irvine opened its doors. Since then, we’ve proudly expanded to six thriving locations: RSM Pasadena, RSM San Fernando Valley, RSM Southern California, RSM Irvine Woodbury, and RSM San Diego.

With the launch of RSM Chino Hills, we’re excited to bring our award-winning after-school math program to even more families in San Bernardino County in Southern California. Fall Classes are now enrolling!

📍 Location details coming soon. Stay tuned for updates!