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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did this with 4th and 5th.  Way more than 3 hours a week, especially in the last month.  I may have had a third grader, at most one.  I would NOT GO NEAR THIS with kids younger than that.  There is great potential for mayhem, since the problems are very open-ended.

Then, if they win locally (not likely if you do the minimum), there's an overnight trip to States.  If you don't plan on letting them go if they are invited, then you need to sort it out before you do the regional competition.
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School coordinator here again.  I have to again say that we have done this with younger kids and had a great experience.  I work full time so I don' t have a lot of time on my hands when I'm coaching my DCs team, but I did put some prep into making sure we had a plan for each meeting - some warm up activities, spontaneous problem practice and then time for the long term problem.  Our kids and parents had a great time and the learned so much it was amazing.

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