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Might be an unpopular take but.. maybe being good at high school math tests is not really such an important gift in the real world.
I don't know how it is in other countries, but Spanish high school math competitions are designed to test both logic and creativity. They'll require you to use the material from your current year, but the way in which you have to apply that math isn't obvious if your only competency in math is specifically passing high school tests. You don't get a good score by being a proficient human calculator, but by applying good abstract analysis, which you should be able to apply in other areas of your life.
I wonder if Spanish people write more interesting Jira tickets.
They pronounce it "heera"
By "high school math competitions" I mean provincial or regional competitions where different schools send their best students. The average Spaniard has as much trouble in math as people from all other places, and high school math is very much the same.