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Competitions: Six U.S. students win a math Olympiad...
...answer to the decades-old concern that American students are being ill-prepared by their educational system to compete with their counterparts overseas. A federal commission fueled such fears when it reported in May that American students spend less than half the time studying the core subjects of math, reading, history and science that students in such countries as Germany, France and Japan do. Education critics have long called for extending the U.S. school year from its current 180 days to something closer to Japan's 240 days...
Less self-evident than their prowess was the exact significance of the American victory. "They showed the world!" suggests the justifiably proud U.S. coach, Walter Mientka, a math professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln...
...public high-school students, started out by competing against 350,000 of their peers on the American High School Mathematics Examination, aced two tougher exams, and prepped for a month at the U.S. Naval Academy. Only then did they board a plane and become the first squad in the Math Olympiad's 35-year history to get perfect scores across the board, out- stripping 68 other nations to win the competition...
...AMERICAN MATH OLYMPIAD TEAM...