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In This Issue
Third Millennium International Olympiad
World Math Day
The Bridges Organization
Free Online
Opportunities
For teachers of students in grades 5-9:
Using Technology and Problem Solving to Build Algebraic Reasoning
Technology Tools for Thinking and Reasoning about Probability
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Third Millennium International Olympiad
School Plus is hosting its 9th annual online problem solving
event. Students in grades 5-12 will have three hours to solve
six problems, and submit their answers online. The event is
free. Try out sample questions from previous years:
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/TMIMO/index.shtml
The Olympiad will take place on Sunday, 1 March, 2009, 4-7 p.m.
(EST). Registration opens Monday, 23 February, 12 pm (EST).
Registered students may practice with the online editor that
will be used to submit answers during the Olympiad.
Further details, and the sign-up for grades 9-12:
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/TMIO.shtml
Grades 5-8 students should sign up at the SchoolPlus-Online site:
http://schoolplus-online.com/course/category.php?id=62
World Math Day
http://www.worldmathday.com/
March 4 is World Math Day. 3P Learning sponsors this site to
provide five- to eighteen-year olds with mental arithmetic
questions to solve in competition with other math students
from around the globe. The contest runs two days, and is free
of charge.
Recent World Math Days have attracted participation from more
than a million students in 160 countries.
Also available from
http://www.worldmathsday.com/
The Bridges Organization
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/
The Bridges Organization oversees an annual conference on
connections between art and mathematics. The site's virtual
museum shows sculpture, paintings, drawings, digital prints,
textiles, origami and other paper-foldings created by
mathematicians and mathematically-inclined artists.
The site also displays mathematical art from art exhibits and
conferences, such as the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the
American Mathematical Society and the Mathematics Association
of America.
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