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Oct. 31, 2007

Making Math Fun

By the time U.S. kids reach middle school, many experience a waning interest in math, the building block of science. In hopes of reversing this trend, a nonprofit group—MathCounts—has been holding spelling-bee type competitions for 6th- to 8th-grade "mathletes." Now, on its 25th anniversary, the group is going one-step further and offering every middle school free materials to set up math clubs—noncompetitive environments to spur enthusiasm in numerical problem solving.

Go to: www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=1065&z=112

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