We would like to see math benefit from extracurricular activities in the same way that other subjects do. Such an experience does not lend well to exams, but does create a marked interest because the subject invariably what has been recently been discovered and what is not positively known.
Astronomy is presented as a vital, expanding endeavour with live frontiers.
Qualities that math posseses as well. Mathematicians are usually very enthusiastic about what they do and love to discuss their work although many have been trained via negative reinforcement not to bring it up themselves .