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You’d be surprised I think. We had a kid do all that, and we did not think to sign up for math contests until 7th grade. Never joined a math club or anything like that.

Now we clearly knew we had a gifted child (reading before 2) but not all parents think to push math. Many schools do not differentiate until 7th grade. Our kid just happened to be at one of those schools.

And we are UMC and highly educated.  So it’s very easy to imagine underserved kids not getting a chance until high school. [/quote]

My experience with coaching math teams is that naturally brilliant kids who have done nothing in elementary school and decide to join the Math Counts team in 7th pretty quickly out-perform the kids who have been prepping since forever but aren't as bright.  Almost every middle school has a math counts team, and they will try to recruit kids in 7th grade Algebra/8th grade geometry for their teams, so the kids would know about the opportunity.

To give you a good analogy, I didn't think to have my kid start taking private music lessons or even playing an instrument at all until 4th grade.  Other parents started their kids in preschool.  Many of those kids practice an hour or more every day and are playing around a grade 6 after 6-ish years of lessons.  My kid practices 30 minutes per day and is playing at grade 5 after 15 months of lessons.  In another 6 months, he will have surpassed the kids who have been playing for much longer.

It might take a little time to catch up, but eventually talent &gt; prepping.  [/quote]

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