What Do You Do with a Child Who is Good at Math?

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01 Oct 2009 07:17 AM

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Spellers have the spelling be. Budding scientists have science fairs and competitions. Student Geographers have geography bees. What do you do with little mathematicians?

Alot of homeschooled kids seem to excel in math, but beyond assigning them good grades,parents are often at a loss as to what to do with that talent. Well, you can enroll them in contests.

Apparently, there are numerous math competitions each year, many of them on a national level.

The continental mathematics league is for grades 2 - AP High school level where there are several meets a year. Students work independently in this competition. The people who run the Continental Mathmatics League also have Geography, Language Arts and Science competitions.

eCybermission is and web based math and science competition for 6-9th grade teams. The contest has students solve real issues in their community using math and science. The 2008-2009 winners worked to make children's costumes less flammable. Moody's Mega Math Challenge is a team competition for 11th and 12th grade students in several north east states. "Student teams download the Challenge problem from the website and work to solve the problem on their own, at the place(s) of their choice, and on the day of the Challenge weekend (Saturday or Sunday) that they selected at the time of registration. Student teams then upload their solution paper by 9:00 pm that same day."

For more information on these competitions and several others, visit the Homeschool Math Contests website.

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Also read:

Tips to Build 'Number Sense' in Your Children

5 Tricks to Get Your Kids to Memorize Math Facts

For the Love of Math

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Andrea Hermitt is a native New Yorker currently residing in GA. She has been married for over 16 years and has two teenage children.

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