digitális matek

Mathematics Camp in Gaborone, Botswana

Mathematics Camp in Gaborone, Botswana Though schools are closed for a short break in Gaborone, 27 secondary secondary school students sacrificed their time to attend a math camp. These boys and girls were invited to participate in this special training because they had showed their talent in mathematics during the previous math contests. The Mathematical […]

Math Camp in Gaborone

Math Camp for Secondary School Students As we previously informed our readers, there was a series of math competitions for secondary school students. The final round took place on 3rd April. The best performing students have been invited to take part in a 2-day math camp. The Mathematical Association of Botswana (MAB) has notified those […]

Collapsing compass and infinite ruler – what?

Collapsing compass and infinite ruler? Geometry is one of the oldest branches of mathematics: the roots go back to the ancient Greeks. Euclid and his coevals achieved brilliant results in this field, in particular, related to geometric constructions. „Geometric construction” means a process coming from a need to create certain objects in our proofs. A […]

The Magic Sword: Modular Arithmetic

The Magic Sword: Modular Arithmetic It is common mathematical knowledge, and as we have seen in our previous posts,  equations are fundamental in mathematics. Solving equations is an important job and a lot of elementary problems are related to this field. Nevertheless, it turns out that in some cases we are interested not in exact […]