A9. Organising events or competitions in a field of science, mathematics or labour market.
France, Mai 2018
Algorea Competition
In our school, all students aged from 11 to 15 can take part in Algorea competition but it is not compulsory. Three times a year, they have training and qualifying sessions. For these sessions which last 45 minutes, the students can work alone or in pairs, depending on the level of difficulty chosen. Several programming languages are suggested.
The best students will be qualified for the semi-final and then for a final training course. Maybe after, they will be selected in the French team for the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics).
Poland, 15 March 2018
Mathematical contest Kangur Matematyczny “Kangaroo” 25 students from 2nd and 3rd classes http://www.kangur-mat.pl/
Portugal, 15th March 2018
14 students of year nine participated in the Mathematical contest Canguru Matemático http://www.mat.uc.pt/canguru/
Portugal, December 2017
Second edition of "Equamat contest" organised by the Maths teacher, António Roldão in School D. Fernando II, Sintra.
Poland, November 2017
17 Polish Erasmus+ students took part in contests organised by Board of Education in Krakow: 15.11 English, 9.11 Biology, 16.11. Geography, 21.11 Mathematics.
Estonia, October 2017
A mathematical game was held for the Estonian project participants by Vladislava, a teacher of Maths. It consisted of two parts. In the first part, the students had to solve seven problems, choosing correct answers to them. Ilona Fjodorova, Karin-Annika Luga, Alyona Kalaud and Erik Pihlakas got highest scores. The second part of the game consisted of quizizz.com's digital game with 20 quiz questions. The tasks were very different: the history of mathematics, tasks for formulas and concepts, logical problems and even question of ancient measures of length. The three leaders included Rihard Aga, Marta Frolova and Polina Somova. All the winners received gifts.
FRANCE, Mai 2017
On the 3rd of May, 150 students, year 7, went to visit Guédelon Castle, which has been built since 25 years using medieval technis and materials. Workers don't use any machines ot modern tools. Our students were quite astonished to discover that medieval people could raise a tower with any calculator. In fact, they participate to a mathematic workshop about measurements and discover that ropes were the only materials to make the shape of an arch ! Students could go around the construction site and learn about different medieval jobs
For more information, watch this video !
FRANCE, March 2017
What are the jobs in the water field?
120 Year 6 students came to the school library with theri biology teacher to work on the third exhibition about water. This time, they discovered all the possible jobs realting to water ; they had to read the posters to answer questions written by thei biology teacher
PORTUGAL, 14.03.2017
Pi Cake contest was launched.
ESTONIA, 14.03.2017
A teacher of Maths, Vladislava, organised a Pi-day in Narva Kesklinna Gümnaasium. 24 students of our school took part in a KAHOOT competition. The game was based on the information students provided on their posters several weeks before (famous scientists from Estonia, Poland, France and Portugal).
Poland, 7 March 2017
52 students of two clasess 3A and 3B tok place in the international contest "Mathematics without borders" (Mathematiques sans frontieres). Class 3A got very good 7th place in the region and 21 in Poland. Class 3B was 17 (37 in Poland).
France, December 2016
“Eurékades” contest
During three contests of an hour, spread over the year (end of November, March and beginning of June), mixed teams of pupils (7th and 6th grade) shall, without help of their teacher, solve up to 10 mathematical situations and return a common answer.
The first round of Eurékades contest took place in our school in December, all together 120 pupils of 6th grade and 120 pupils of 7th grade participated to this contest.
For example
Question : what is the score in the last target?
Every student is waiting for the results hoping to pass the first round and participate to the second one in March !
Congrats to them !
France 10.10.2016
“Castor Informatique “ contest
Twelve volunteer students from year 7, 8 and 9 participated to the "Castor Informatique "contest on November the tenth.
A second round with a higher level organized by France IOI will be held in january.
What is Castor Informatique?
It is the French name for Bebras
The idea of Bebras was born in Lithuania,University of Vilnius. Bebras is the Lithuanian word for “beaver”. Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote Informatics (or Computer Science, or Computing) and Computational thinking especially among teachers and pupils of all ages, but also to the public at large by extent. The big challenge of Bebras is to organise easily accessible and highly motivating online challenge in many countries.
The first Bebras challenge was organised in Lithuania in 2004 and has quickly spread across the world. The challenge is composed of one main test without any selection of students. The challenge has two types of tasks: a multiple choice questions and interactive problems. Number of tasks varies year-by-year from eighteen to twenty four questions of different difficulty to be solved in 40, 45 or 55 minutes. For each multiple choice question a choice of four answers is provided.
Good luck to our brave students for the second round in January !
Estonia, 31.10.2016
The teacher of English, Deniss, has taught the teacher of Science, Oksana, how to create Kahoot quizzes. So, her first geographical game with 20 questions for revision has been created. As a result, the students have had a fantastic and fun time playing the game and the teacher of Science has decided to implement this kahoot-system into her teaching practice.
Portugal, October 2016
In the last week of October, five classes of year 8 participated in a Maths competition - EQUAMAT. The competition had several rounds and the students participated enthusiasticaly.
France, September 2016
On September, 26th all the pupils in the 6ème 6 went to the palace of Versailles to work on the theme "In pursuit of the blue gold".
With our guide, we made some experiments with communicating vessels. And above all, we took part in an orienteering race whose aim was to solve enigmas about geometry in the gardens. We made a stop in front of some "topiaires" (the adjective in English is "topiary"): a "topiaire" is a shrub or a tree trimmed into geometric forms, animal and even human shapes. Some pupils drew them.
At the end of the afternoon, we sat on the grass near a giant atomizer. I loved this outing at the place of Versailles (even if it was hot), it was very interesting.
Pauline: "I liked it. It was great because we went for a walk in the park and we were alone sometimes. The enigmas were very funny!"
Valentine, 6e1
Poland, September-October 2016
Polish school organised several activities for pupils in September and October 2016:
- Contests organised by Board of Education in Krakow: 20.10 Chemistry, 25.10 Physics, 27.10 Biology, 4.11. Geography, 8.11 Mathematics.
