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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot Kumon your way into being a top competitor in Mathcounts.  All of the kids at the top nationally have a talent for math.  Most of them probably love math as well.  [/quote]

I kind of think you can. If by kumon we mean math tutoring from kindergarten on. Kumon in the early years and then advanced coursework outside class and then tutoring on the actual contest math questions. Yes that exists.

My DS has an [b]IQ in the gifted range[/b]. If there are 3 million in his grade year so do 60,000 others his age. My kid even has a Quantitative Reasoning score in the 99.9th percentile. So do thousands of other kids in his year group.  That is not what makes a difference. So I do think it’s the practice that makes a difference.

I think kids in the above average range but literally hundreds of hours studying contest math would outperform any kid who hasn’t been tutored. [/quote]
What do you wby “IQ in gifted range”? 120, 130? That is normally called “bright” and can afford him to do pretty well in school work. But those who excel at math competitions typically have much higher IQ than “gifted”. 150 is not uncommon.[/quote]

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