The high school Math Olympiad may have fallen by the wayside this year, but one city primary school decided to do its own thing.
St Mary's Hall in Belize City was abuzz with excitement today as the students of the primary school took part in their first ever Math Olympiad. 5 groups of students ranging from Standard 2 to 6 competed against each other in the tournament. And while it was all fun for the students, the activity aimed at helping to improve their mathematical skills in a fun and unique way. 7news stopped in.
Michele Lopez, teacher
"Today we are having an annual math Olympiad. This is the first year we are doing it. The school had realized that we had a few academic problems and so we develop short and long term goals and we had a 5 year goal to try to improve the academics in the school."
"One of the topics that we realize that children are very poor in is mathematics and as a result they are not passing their BJAT and PSEs. So for them to develop a love for mathematics we decided to have a competition where we have 5 teams; one representative from standard 2 to standard 6. The children work together as a team to solve certain math problems and as a result they are learning from each other, they are building team work, building friendship and they are also developing a passion for math."
"Myself as a teacher has this passion for math. I am really proud that we have taken this step that not only certain teachers will love the math but as well as other students, so they will have confidence and when they go out and take external exams they can say that they had the training and that they love this and that can be done. They will realize that they have the skills needed to accomplish whatever they need to accomplish."
In the end the green team claimed the winning trophy - that team included Ricky Avila, Jaheem Goff, Brendon Martinez, Anahi Revolorio and Karla Ramos. The school plans to make their Math Olympiad and annual event.
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