Winners of local contests will participate in the national math competition for free.
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The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.
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The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.
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The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.
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The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.
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The 224 students who make it to the national competition get an all-expenses-paid trip.
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Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.
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Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.
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Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.
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One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.
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Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.
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Many schools simply don't prioritize academic competitions.
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Many schools don't place academic competitions at the top of their priority list.
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Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.
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Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.
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Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.
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After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
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According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.
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About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.
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The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.
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Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.
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And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.
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With competition from many countries, Antarctica is no longer dominated by the traditional white nations.
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Not only is the competition getting more intense, the application process today is also totally different from what baby boomers knew.
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For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren
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Ted Hughes discovered many long poems submitted for poetry competition were composed on computers.
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Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor.
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It stresses competition rather than cooperation
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Competition from other modes of transport.
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There is an element there about competition then, isn't there
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About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.
2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national Math Counts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and 8 were African-American students.
2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
The Math video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.
2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B