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[quote=Anonymous]As a student, I did math team starting in about 6th grade (in Texas) and through the advanced levels at TJ here in Virginia, in addition to the computer programming team and a couple of sports. Math team was pretty similar to sports teams. Both were a lot of fun for me, rewarded practice, offered leadership opportunities, etc. Competition math teaches advanced problem-solving techniques that are useful in domains from engineering to management consulting. You can't just memorize strategies and recognize problem types. At the higher levels, it is proof-based so starts to get closer to what mathematicians actually get up to all day.[/quote]
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