“…This paper was trying to answer that question. This series of investigations extends earlier work to include the examination of how distance of student home from school, family background of student, Contests -contests like math Olympiads that had been followed might influence problem solving behavior of student (Harisman et al, 2018;Harisman, Kusumah, & Kusnandi, 2019a;2019b;Harisman, Kusumah, Kusnandi, & Noto, 2019;Kariman, Harisman, Sovia, & Prahmana, 2019).…”