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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/national-competition-participants?field_nc_team_value=va&field_nc_grade_value=All&field_nc_participant_type_value=All

Congrats to the State winners![/quote]

Where can we find the state results? top ten teams/individuals?[/quote]
Longfellow,Carson,Cooper,Nysmith[/quote]

It seems unfair that the Fairfax and NOVA chapters are (almost) always the top in state.

Also, getting third in Chapter (e.g. Basis this year, Cooper other years) really hurts chances for some bright kids who might have made state otherwise.[/quote]

The Fairfax teams tend to be stacked with kids good at math. DS will be attending Carson. I asked about MathCounts at the open house. The advisor said that they have 135 students take the test to join the 30 person club and that the team is made of the top 5 kids from that group of 30.

There are a lot of kids who participate in math competitions and math enrichment in the area. It is not surprising that the schools that find a lot of those students attending them, like the FCPS AAP Centers,  end up with very strong teams. It is no different then the schools that have traditionally strong sports teams. People move to locations because they know that there are opportunities for kids who are strong in a specific area, like math in this case, or football/basketball/baseball/soccer. They know that if their kid is a talented that they stand a chance of landing a spot on a team that will give them more opportunities. [/quote]

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