OBMEP awards gold medals to 501 students.
Separated by thousands of kilometers and diverse realities, 501 students from public schools across the country will meet next Tuesday (14), at 3 pm, at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, promoted by Mathematics. These young people and children are protagonists of the same story: they won, among 17.8 million participants, the gold medal in the Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad for Public Schools (OBMEP 2016), organized by IMPA (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics).
The national awards ceremony will be attended by representatives from the Ministries of Education and Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications, the Director-General of IMPA, Marcelo Viana, and the Deputy Director of IMPA and National Coordinator of OBMEP, Claudio Landim.
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In its 12th edition, the largest student olympiad in the country, aimed at students from the 6th grade of elementary school to the 3rd year of high school, brought together competitors from 99.6% of Brazilian municipalities. In addition to the 501 gold medalists, 1,500 won silver; 4,500 bronze; and 42,482 were awarded honorable mentions.
Of the 47,474 schools enrolled in the first phase in 2016, 13,930 are rural. They participated with 1.6 million students – 322 of whom won medals.
About OBMEP
OBMEP is organized by IMPA and promoted with resources from the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC) and the Ministry of Education (MEC), with the support of the Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM).
The Olympiad is part of the calendar of activities for the 2017-2018 Brazilian Mathematics Biennium, which is sponsored by BNDES and supported by the Ministries of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications and Education. Created in 2005 by IMPA, OBMEP aims to stimulate the study of Mathematics and reveal talent, promoting social inclusion through the dissemination of knowledge.
The effective impact of OBMEP on mathematics results in the country has been measured by independent studies. According to work by former INEP president Chico Soares, schools that actively participate in the competition show an improvement in student performance of 26 points on the Prova Brasil exam, equivalent to 1.5 years of extra schooling.
