An online Mathematics contest on its way...

Raffles Institution, Singapore’s leading school is going to conduct the Raffles Institution Primary Mathematics World Contest 2008 on 29th Feb 2008. The objective of this contest is to increase interest in Mathematics amongst primary school students as well as give them an opportunity to discover their talent in solving challenging Math problems. This also helps schools to benchmark their Mathematics standards in an international platform.

Raffles Institution has teamed up with HeyMath!, its IT and pedagogy partner to conduct the first round of this contest online. HeyMath! has created an online testing platform using which 4500+ primary school students from all over Singapore and Indonesia are going to take part in the contest.

Based on their performance students will be awarded certificates from Raffles Institution and HeyMath!. The top 50 participants qualify for the second round.

In order to help students prepare for the contest, Raffles Institution and HeyMath! have developed a set of preparatory lessons and worksheets to enable students expand their knowledge and improve problem solving skills necessary for success in such Math Contests. The preparatory course focuses on mathematical reasoning and includes useful approaches and methods to tackle problems.

This opportunity from Raffles Institution has proved to be an impetus for us to create an online testing platform which can be used for a variety of purposes. The application can also generate detailed reports based on the test outcome.