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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For mbmt and many university sponsored math competition (hmmt, PuMAC, cmu, Berkeley math competition, etc), you don’t need a HS sponsorship. Parent can register as a coach and pay a small registration fee to attend. Kids from different schools can form a team together. Some competition is driving distance, some has online format. Math competition is probably the cheapest one compared to sports travel team cost.[/quote]

Why is a team required at all? I think allowing students to compete as individuals (or form a team with similarly unaffiliated students) would be much more welcoming to all who are interested.[/quote]

Because there's usually a team round in these math competitions, where cooperative strategy is tested as part of the competition. For many of the college hosted HS math competitions, there's typically also a proof-round where basically kids go through an entire theory proof process so universities can select who can follow through and kids can have first-hand experience whether they like pure math or not.

I'd say attending math competitions is very low barriered compared to sports or music competitions. However, reaching the level that kids can read and understand the questions requires consistent investment in math enrichment from an early age that most parents don't realize until too late. For other STEM competitions, it's a similar story but it's usually not too late to start in middle school (e.g., science bowl, robotics, F=ma, etc.). [/quote]

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