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American Mathematics Competition Are you interested in competing in the American Mathematics Competition in February?   We are looking for talented mathematicians to compete.   This is a national math competition and it is a way to show colleges your math talents! If you are interested please email the Math Team coach, Dr. Liam Rafferty at Liam.Rafferty@normandale.edu by Wednesday, January 3 rd so that we can register you.   The competition days are 2/7 & 2/14. For more info about the AMC exams, including practice problems, go to https://www.maa.org/math-competitions/amc-1012

Gifted Challenges by Gail Post, PhD * June 23, 2017 https://giftedchallenges.blogspot.com/2017/06/five-reasons-to-consider-elite-college.html With so much recent criticism and outright condemnation of highly competitive colleges, you might wonder why anyone would bother to apply. After all, with acceptance rates lower than 10%, and a  brutal admissions process , why subject your child to the stress...and likely  rejection ? Media  commentary  aptly warns about the highly competitive  admissions standards , discourages students from placing so much value on any one school, and reminds us that  a good education can be found just about anywhere.  Elite colleges are sometimes the  target of harsh criticism , though. Sometimes it seems that journalists highlight every possible drawback to  reassure the rest of us  that we're okay despite never having attended  one of these colleges . Unfortunately, some critique mo

November 29, 2017 Elissa F. Brown Gifted students who are served in general education classrooms frequently finish their work sooner than other students. This can happen in one subject area, such as mathematics, or in all subject areas. Due to their rapidity of thought (VanTassel-Baska & Brown, 2007), they typically finish assignments before other children. Then they may act out because they are bored. What is really going on is a mismatch between the academic needs of the student and the pace and depth of the curricula and instructional program. Following are suggestions for how to best serve these students -- and what not to do. Don't. . . 1. Use these students, whether formally identified as gifted or not, as teacher assistants. Using gifted students as tutors or teacher assistants for other students in the classroom is inappropriate and unethical, and it does not provide for their social-emotional or academic needs. When an appropriately differentiat