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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not too familiar with Science Olympiad, but Mathcounts is a great program for exposing kids to interesting math problems. I don't think you should worry so much about how time consuming the activities are; the amount of time spent is mostly up to your child and how much effort/training he wants to put into it.

He should pick the one that interests him the most. If he doesn't know much or is not sure about Mathcounts, I highly recommend trying it out (do some free problems from prior year contests and see if he likes them and is enjoying new ways to look them).

In terms of seriously training for competitions, Mathcounts can be extremely competitive. Depending on the middle school (e.g Carson, etc) the competition is so big in terms of the sheer # of students wanting to be on the team that it may even be really hard for him to make it past the school round. This is unfortunate because it can shut off kids interest for learning new things if they feel they cannot even compete at all.

The really interesting Mathcounts problems are the State and National rounds, as they are more challenging (the School round generally contains pretty easy problems, and so does the Chapter round with the exception of a few problems).

This link will prove helpful for learning more about Mathcounts:

[url]https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/competition-series/past-competitions[/url][/quote]

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