28/06/2018

Media highlights IMPA's partnership in the Nova Iguaçu Olympics.

The municipality of Nova Iguaçu, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, is the first in Brazil to have a Mathematics Olympiad for students in the 4th and 5th years of Elementary School. The initiative, a partnership between the City Hall and the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), was launched on Monday (25) and was reported in the press.

The daily newspaper “Extra” praised the creation of the Nova Iguaçu Municipal Olympics (OMANI), highlighting the competition's objective of stimulating the teaching of the subject in the early years of school and the possibility of the Olympics being adopted by other Brazilian municipalities.

The newspaper "O Dia" also reported on the City Hall's actions, citing the "Mathematics in the Square" project, coordinated by the Educational and Cultural Foundation of Nova Iguaçu (Fenig). The project is aimed at children, who learn mathematics through games and play.
Two TV stations produced reports about the new Olympics. The SBT Rio program showed the joy of the children participating in the pilot project, which will serve 118 schools in Nova Iguaçu, a city with approximately 800,000 inhabitants.

On the TV Record program Balanço Geral, the example of Luiz Miguel do Nascimento guided the report. He is one of the 16,000 students in the municipality who, on August 30th, will participate for the first time in a mathematics olympiad.

The son of a bricklayer, the boy learned to love numbers by watching his father do the calculations for construction projects. "He's already built a house all by himself," Luiz Miguel praised.

Nova Iguaçu Municipal Olympics (OMANI)
The event is the result of a technical cooperation agreement signed between the Municipality of Nova Iguaçu and IMPA. The Nova Iguaçu Municipal Olympics (OMANI) is a pilot project that is expected to be replicated throughout Brazil.
IMPA will be responsible for the academic aspects of OMANI, while operational matters will be the responsibility of the municipal administration.