New math contest in Botswana

New math contest for secondary school students in Botswana This coming new week starting on Monday, 20 March, 2017 brings a new math contest for 128 secondary school students. As we wrote in our previous math news post, students who achieved 50 % or more in the 1st round of the Senior math Contest would […]

The best math contestants

The best 128 students We have just received great news! In our previous news we wrote about the math contest results in general giving the names of the 6 outstanding students. Mr. Mmoloki Lekhutlile, the Vice Chaiperson of MAB, a math teacher at Maru-a-Pula Secondary School, was kind enough to send us the names of […]

Math Contenst Results

The Botswana Senior Mathematics Contest Results are here! As we reported earlier, the Mathematical Association of Botswana organized a math contest for secondary school students. The event was successful, more than 200 students competed with each other from different schools of Botswana. The questions were prepared by Professor László Székelyhidi, Department of Mathematics, UB. He […]

Smullyan – a math icon – dies

Raymond Smullyan died at the age of 97 „Why should I worry about dying? It’s not going to happen in my lifetime!” quote from Raymond Smullyan, This Book Needs No Title (1986) In early February, 2017, the mathematical community lost one of its beloved member. Raymond Merrill Smullyan (May 25, 1919 – February 6, 2017) […]