Project to Train 6th And 7th Grade Students in Math Olympiads

Year 2019, Volume: 14 , 95 - 99, 20.09.2019

Larissa Cassia Scalada Caroline Rodrigues Queles Mateus Roberto Borım Fernando Samuel Moreira Dıas Danielle Goncalves De Oliveira Prado

Abstract

In
Brazil, the teaching of mathematics present itself in a decontextualized,
inflexible and immutable way, it being the product of privileged minds. The
Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad (OBMEP) is a national project directed to the
public and private schools, it carried out by the National Institute of Pure
and Applied Mathematics, with the support of the Brazilian Society of
Mathematics and it is promoting by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry
of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications. This project came about
in order to improve the interest of mathematics in children and adolescents,
and also, to solve difficulties that for many people turn out to be something
frustrating. In addition, it contributes to a higher classification of them in
OBMEP, which it's an important competition to discovery of new talents.
Voluntarily, students from various engineering courses were instructed and
trained to teach classes to 99 students enrolled in the 6th and 7th years, with
52% belonging to public schools and the other 48% of private schools. Contents
in the areas of Arithmetic, Combinatorial Analysis and Geometry were addressed,
on Saturdays, at the Federal University of Technology, Parana, for free and
didactic. The approximation of the academic community to society, together with
the constant participation of the family and the encouragement of the teachers,
it contributed significantly to the success of the project. Besides to
presenting a greater number of classified in relation to previous editions,
statistics point to satisfactory results, not only in the educational area, but
also in the social context, once the students have come into contact with
children of the same age, but different realities. Students dropout rates were
lower for public school (42%), it be confirming the need for more attention in
education and it be reinforcing the relevance of this work.

Keywords

Elementary school, Mathematics, Obmep

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