Maths Olympics
Now officially known as the Mathematics Championships, these are competitions for high school students where participants must solve mathematical problems through ingenuity and creativity. The aim of the initiative is to encourage students to develop a particular mathematical thinking that is useful in solving the typical problems faced by a mathematician during his or her career, while at the same time showing them a different kind of mathematics from that learned so far that can develop in them an even greater interest in the subject.
The Department of Mathematics and Applications support the local stages and also organises courses for high school students and teachers who wish to prepare for these competitions. Below is more information on the initiatives:
The course for students aims, through sessions of guided exercises and small theoretical explanations, to prepare students for the district competition and, in perspective, the national competition, balancing between the exposition of specific contents and techniques of the four traditional “Olympic” disciplines (algebra, combinatorics, geometry, number theory) and the focus on how to approach demonstration problems, which have always been a crucial point of the most advanced competitions.
The courses for teachers aim to provide both methodological and educational tools as well as content foundations to best set up training and preparation sessions for their own schools, also highlighting the differences with the teaching of the curriculum, and will try to stimulate critical reasoning and revision skills in the use of the available educational material.
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The District Competition takes place in February at the University of Milano-Bicocca and represents the second stage of the Olympiad where participants will have to individually solve mathematical problems of a different nature. At the end of the competition, on the basis of the results, the students of the Milano and Monza-Brianza Districts will be selected to participate at the National Final to be held in Cesenatico at the beginning of May.
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Team Competition
The Team Competition takes place in March and, unlike the District Competition, is a group competition where the ability of the members (7 from the same institute) of each team to collaborate in solving assigned problems within a certain time limit will be tested. It is a real-time point-to-point challenge where the students, once they have solved a problem, race to deliver the result by checking the updated ranking on a scoreboard. The most difficult problems that have not yet been solved go up in score over time. At the end, the winning teams will gain access to the National Semifinals (and eventually the Final) to be held in Cesenatico in May.
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The competition was held on 6 march at the FIPAV Pavesi Center and was won by Liceo Volta of Milan, which finished about 300 points ahead of the team in second place, Liceo Grassi of Lecco. Liceo Lussana of Bergamo closed out the podium.
The event was sponsored by Bending Spoons, a leading Italian company in the field of mobile app development and more.
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