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Why are you acting as if these contests do a poor job training kids? The OP never suggested that -- in fact, it seems nearly all of them grew up to be very succ
by consz 12y ago
Why are you acting as if these contests do a poor job training kids? The OP never suggested that -- in fact, it seems nearly all of them grew up to be very successful. Your stance seems to be in direct contradiction of the evidence offered in the original article.
- graycat 12y agoThe article implied that the Math Olympiad work didn't much result in significant results 30 years later from the work in math for the contest. You are correct that the OP didn't directly say that the "training" of the "kids" was poor. My view of such high school math competitions is that they waste the time and effort of the students and, otherwise, with good guidance, there would be significant results from the efforts 30 years later. In this sense, then the training was a "poor job". But the OP did not say that directly -- that's my interpretation, heavily from what I saw used as efforts to have some high school students do better in math -- the efforts were a waste of time for all concerned and because the people directing the efforts didn't know enough math.
- consz 12y agoI'm still not following. In what way are there not significant results from the kids in the contest? They almost all seemed to have had significant success.