UMD HS math contest

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

+1. Just like if your kid is interested in dance, you find the local dance programs. The local dance programs will share information about competitions. If your kid plays a sport, as the parent, you seek out clubs that will help them grow. The coaches suggest showcases or tournaments that would be helpful. If your kid is interested in math, you seek out math opportunities. You're involved in RSM or AOPS. You're looking for math summer programs. RSM/AOPS will suggest AMC competitions. As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

Parents shouldn’t and don’t need to do the work of finding the opportunities. Students can and should be seeking these opportunities themselves. These are high schoolers! They shouldn’t have to have a parent curating their extracurriculars the way you describe. Creepy!

It’s not that a parent is curating activities for a HS. To play at this level, a kid starts much earlier—when a parent still needs to be involved. A kid doesn’t walk on to the HS football team without having played rec or pee wee ball. You’re not being invited to summer intensives unless you’ve been in dance for years. Math is no different. The math competitions start in MS. Parents will need to be involved if only to sign the kid up, pay, and drive. Not sure why this would be considered creepy.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

Again, I’m the PP with the DD who participated this year and it was her first math competition.

I think it is useful to differentiate between participate and compete here. It would be nice if everyone was equally encouraged and had clear options to participate. We should encourage kids to have fun with math in easily accessible ways. Someone could take the test and it might inspire them to try more math competitions. Everyone starts somewhere.

And, I agree that the kids that are most likely to truly compete for the top spots here are the ones who would have know about it anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

Again, I’m the PP with the DD who participated this year and it was her first math competition.

I think it is useful to differentiate between participate and compete here. It would be nice if everyone was equally encouraged and had clear options to participate. We should encourage kids to have fun with math in easily accessible ways. Someone could take the test and it might inspire them to try more math competitions. Everyone starts somewhere.

And, I agree that the kids that are most likely to truly compete for the top spots here are the ones who would have know about it anyway.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

Again, I’m the PP with the DD who participated this year and it was her first math competition.

I think it is useful to differentiate between participate and compete here. It would be nice if everyone was equally encouraged and had clear options to participate. We should encourage kids to have fun with math in easily accessible ways. Someone could take the test and it might inspire them to try more math competitions. Everyone starts somewhere.

And, I agree that the kids that are most likely to truly compete for the top spots here are the ones who would have know about it anyway.

Encouraging participation and advertising programs are two different things. We don’t fault MCPS for not advertising varsity sports competitions to beginners

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

Not everyone does apos or UMD math. All kids should have the same opportunities.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

How would they know if nothing is offered at their school.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

Again, I’m the PP with the DD who participated this year and it was her first math competition.

I think it is useful to differentiate between participate and compete here. It would be nice if everyone was equally encouraged and had clear options to participate. We should encourage kids to have fun with math in easily accessible ways. Someone could take the test and it might inspire them to try more math competitions. Everyone starts somewhere.

And, I agree that the kids that are most likely to truly compete for the top spots here are the ones who would have know about it anyway.

Encouraging participation and advertising programs are two different things. We don’t fault MCPS for not advertising varsity sports competitions to beginners

But the timing for sports tryouts is easily available to everyone, at least at our school. Everyone can participate in tryouts even if not everyone is going to make the team.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

Again, I’m the PP with the DD who participated this year and it was her first math competition.

I think it is useful to differentiate between participate and compete here. It would be nice if everyone was equally encouraged and had clear options to participate. We should encourage kids to have fun with math in easily accessible ways. Someone could take the test and it might inspire them to try more math competitions. Everyone starts somewhere.

And, I agree that the kids that are most likely to truly compete for the top spots here are the ones who would have know about it anyway.

Encouraging participation and advertising programs are two different things. We don’t fault MCPS for not advertising varsity sports competitions to beginners

But the timing for sports tryouts is easily available to everyone, at least at our school. Everyone can participate in tryouts even if not everyone is going to make the team.

Some sports are only varsity so there are beginners at our school if there are slots.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

None of that matters because whether your child participates or not depends on whether the school decides to offer it! So all the IYKYK community culture stuff can be replaced by forwarding one simple email from the UMD organizer!

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

None of that matters because whether your child participates or not depends on whether the school decides to offer it! So all the IYKYK community culture stuff can be replaced by forwarding one simple email from the UMD organizer!

Then you should really reach out to your HS's math coordinator and request for future forwarding of opportunities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

None of that matters because whether your child participates or not depends on whether the school decides to offer it! So all the IYKYK community culture stuff can be replaced by forwarding one simple email from the UMD organizer!

Then you should really reach out to your HS's math coordinator and request for future forwarding of opportunities.

Some schools don’t support math and stem outside the absolute minimum. That would never happen at our school.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

None of that matters because whether your child participates or not depends on whether the school decides to offer it! So all the IYKYK community culture stuff can be replaced by forwarding one simple email from the UMD organizer!

Then you should really reach out to your HS's math coordinator and request for future forwarding of opportunities.

Some schools don’t support math and stem outside the absolute minimum. That would never happen at our school.

School clubs are often effectively run by parents, who then ask a teacher to serve as a sponsor. Many teachers are unwilling to commit additional time after school. Even at schools with strong math programs, a math club or team may stop performing when a strong parent coach leaves.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this advertised in an MCPS newsletter? This is the first I've seen of it, but you would think that the attraction of a UMD scholarship would bring out a lot of students from a range of HS.

This competition has been going on for a long time.

That doesn’t answer the question of whether MCPS is systematically advertising it or if certain schools do it on their own. This is certainly more interesting to me than Taylor’s Christmas video.

This is not about advertising. Students who are interested in math competitions would already be aware of this contest. The winners are high achievers with extensive experience in competitive mathematics, such as AMO, not students who are simply strong in school math but have never participated in math competitions.

As part of being in that environment, you'll hear about the UMD competition. Or if your local, and your kid is at this level, you're on the UMD page looking for opportunities to challenge your kid in the summer and you'll stumble upon the competition.

It's great that some teachers at some schools, email out the information. But this opportunity is no different than any other EC that a parent seeks out for their child. Parents need to do the work of finding the opportunities. If you didn't know it existed, that's on you.

You are deeply confused. This event is an in-school event. Only high school teachers are allowed to administer the test to students.

I’m not confused. I understand that it is administered by HS teachers during the school day. Parents are complaining that they didn’t know the competition existed. My point is that if your kid is playing at this level, then you know the competition exists because your kid is involved in other math activities outside of school. They will hear about students in other schools preparing for the UMD comp when they’re at AoPS. Or they’ll hear about it during the summer math course at UMD that a parent enrolled them in. The UMD comp isn’t for casual math kids—they need to learn how to analyze and respond to the questions. So as a parent, if you’re in that environment, you know it exists or you’ve at least heard about it. Then you look on the UMD math site and see your kids school is not listed. So you or your kid reach out to the math coordinator at your school and ask how your child can participate.

None of that matters because whether your child participates or not depends on whether the school decides to offer it! So all the IYKYK community culture stuff can be replaced by forwarding one simple email from the UMD organizer!

Then you should really reach out to your HS's math coordinator and request for future forwarding of opportunities.

Some schools don’t support math and stem outside the absolute minimum. That would never happen at our school.

Which school?