<p>math competitions are one way to show an interest and talent for math. Unless you are prepared to drive to Houston tonight, you probably have missed Rice for this year. But the 2 big math tournaments in Texas every year are at A&M in the fall and at Rice in Feb. <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Eeulers/RMT.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eulers/RMT.html</a>
<a href="http://www.math.tamu.edu/teaching/undergrad/highschoolcontest/%5B/url%5D">http://www.math.tamu.edu/teaching/undergrad/highschoolcontest/</a></p>
<p>Info on AMC exams and other nation-wide contests can be found at <a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com%5B/url%5D">www.artofproblemsolving.com</a> LBJ is involved in a lot of this stuff, but it seems to vary from year to year depending on whether or not they have an active sponsor or enthusiastic students willing to organize things. The last I knew (a couple of years ago) the math team sponsor was an English teacher. Still, your math teacher should be able to put you in contact with the LBJ math team. If that doesn't work, go to this site and see if you recognize the names of any of the kids at LBJ who are doing Texas Math League: <a href="http://www.mathleague.com/reports/2005_06/TX3.HTM%5B/url%5D">http://www.mathleague.com/reports/2005_06/TX3.HTM</a></p>