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Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Mathematics Education For Gifted Students, Wayne Roberts Jan 1991

Mathematics Education For Gifted Students, Wayne Roberts

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Three Minnesotans were among the 25 secondary students invited to a special training session held on the campus of the Naval Academy at Annapolis this past summer. This program, designed for students who represent an important national resource in a technologically competitive world, is held each summer. Students qualify for invitation on the basis of a series of examinations conducted by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

The over-representation of Minnesota is noteworthy because it reverses a long-standing pattern in which our best students have been underrepresented in the MAA program to identify outstanding students of mathematics. The results in …