Sentence examples for math competition from inspiring English sources

And like sports, math competition can — under proper conditions — benefit many (but not all) kids.

Harvard considers it "something that's impressive," like winning a national math competition, if an applicant's essay has appeared in the review, he said.

The Dutch Mathematical Olympiad is an annual multi-round math competition held in the Netherlands open to all high school students in grades 7-11.

The International Olympiad, which began in Romania in 1959, is considered to be the world's toughest math competition for high school students.

"I was told your school recently got seven out of the top 10 places in a math competition throughout all Israel.

Such real-world topics might be part of the prestigious consortium math competition, in which three Concordia teams and two from Westchester Community College took part.

It's well documented that people seem to think that one is either born good at math or not, in spite of the fact that there's ample evidence that practicing math competition-type problems makes you good at them.

David and Christi Bergin, professors of educational and developmental psychology at the University of Missouri, have begun a pilot study of junior high school students participating in math competitions.

Joseph Price of Brigham Young University and his colleagues reported this year that the gender gap in high-stakes math competitions disappeared simply by adding more rounds to a contest.

"He would go to a lot of math competitions, and come out with three or four prizes," says Nissim Elbaz, Mr. Elbaz's father.

Dr. Mertz asserts that the new study is the first to examine data from the most difficult math competitions for young people, including the USA and International Mathematical Olympiads for high school students, and the Putnam Mathematical Competition for college undergraduates.