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How to "wake" girl's interest in math?

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Hello, all-knowing parents. While this is not directly college-related, I still hope people will help me with the insights and ideas for our situation. Sorry it got so long! My D is an 8th-grader, smart, stubborn, straight-A character type. From our observations, she has clearly got the "mathematical" mind . The problem is that she doesn't like math/science and the worse part is she is not even sure what she likes in terms of future areas of interest (I know, it's still early, but it never hurts to search, right?). She tends to be more interested in humanities, but even she herself realizes that it's not her strongest side - she is not very artistic. We want to (gently!) steer her towards math and science as this is where her talent is. So far she refused to sign up for any formal math/science EC. She tried AMC8 for 2 years, mastered all the problems there but didn't do well on the tests (test anxiety + bad test administration from what we could tell). School is no help (at least, till next year - she is still suffering through the Common Core geometry and is bored to death). She is clearly not interested in anything technical (robots, computers, mechanics), but tolerates the theoretical side. She is still agreeing to work with her dad and they try various random things but we are running out of ideas what to try - we don't want to intersect with school material too much because we are afraid to make school math even more boring. So, what would you try to interest a girl in math(and/or science)? Thank you!

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