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PRESS RELEASE | SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
TEXAS, September 3, 2024 – Today, National Math Stars announced that they have selected 61 Texas students as 2024 Stars. These Stars will receive a decade of intensive support, preparing them to become the next generation of leading mathematicians, scientists, and engineers.
The 2024 Stars come from 27 different Texas school districts, including public school, charter school, private school, and homeschooled students. They range in age from 6 to 10. While many of them live near Texas’s largest metro areas, others hail from College Station, Del Rio, and the Rio Grande Valley. On average, Stars scored above 99th percentile on both the quantitative and nonverbal sections of the Cognitive Abilities Test…
Read ArticleOP-ED | CHALKBEAT | JULY 19, 2024
Access to acceleration has long been wildly inequitable. Here’s what schools can do to reduce the financial and logistical barriers.
By Ilana Walder-Biesanz
I went to high school at age 11.
Within two years, I had run out of math and Spanish classes there, so I walked from my public school campus to nearby Lewis and Clark College to study differential equations, symbolic logic, and the plays of 1830s Spain.
People often ask me if it was strange to be a newly minted teenager in classrooms full of college upperclassmen. The truth is, no one knew my age unless I told them. I was just the overenthusiastic, kind of young-looking kid in the front row…
Read ArticlePRESS RELEASE | MAY 1, 2024
New nonprofit invites educators and parents to nominate mathematically extraordinary Texas students in 2nd and 3rd grade, and will support each student with over $100,000 in resources over ten years
HOUSTON, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — National Math Stars (NMS) has just closed substantial seed funding of $16.5 million for their first three years, with the mission to ensure mathematically extraordinary students from all communities have the resources they need to reach the frontiers of math and science.
NMS is actively recruiting 2nd and 3rd grade students who lack access to sufficiently advanced instruction and community. NMS will recruit its first cohort of 50 – 60 students from Texas. NMS is asking Texas schools to nominate the top 2 – 3% of their students, and will then run a selection process to find the most mathematically extraordinary students whose trajectories are likely to be changed by this program. Parents and others are also able to nominate or apply on behalf of students directly. The application window is open until June 30, 2024. Future cohorts will come from both Texas and other states as the program grows…
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