Quest “Mathematics in the City”

News | 14 December 2018

On December 15-20, Caucasus Mathematical Center and Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at Adyghe State University organized the quest “Mathematics in the City” in Maykop. Anybody could participate in this quest by scanning various QR-codes around the city and solving the math problems. Each correctly solved problem had a value of one point.

The winners of the quest were Anastasia Mentesashvili, Yegor Kalashnikov, Roman Kuznetsov, Dzhaneta Bedanokova, and Anastasia Arutyunova.

On December 15-23, Math week took place in Maykop. The program of this week included various events for school children, math teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, professors, researchers, and all Maykop citizens.

The first event of the week was the quest “Mathematics in the City” where participants scanned QR-codes with math problems posted everywhere around the city. The winners of the quest were Anastasia Mentesashvili, Yegor Kalashnikov, Roman Kuznetsov, Dzhaneta Bedanokova, and Anastasia Arutyunova.

On December 19, the workshop “Integrated Systems” with Dr.A.B.Shabat took place.

On December 18-22, the conference “Mathematical Talent and Mathematical Education” took place, it was organized by Caucasus Mathematical Center at Adyghe State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Regional School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

On December 19-23, the conference “Extremal Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry” took place, it was organized by Caucasus Mathematical Center at Adyghe State University and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

On December 19-22, math teachers attended lectures and round tables led by the leading specialist of the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Research A.Semenov, associate professor of the Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod D.Kuznetsov, E.Shiryaev from the laboratory of Mathematics at the Polytechnic Museum, head of the laboratory for the popularization and propaganda of mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics named after V.Steklov N.Andreev, the head of the Central Jury of the International Mathematical City Tournament, chief editor of the journal “Quantik,” head of the Mathematics Department “Quant” S.Dorichenko, associate professor of the Mathematics Department at Special Educational and Scientific Centre of Moscow State University V. Dubrovsky.

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