26/12/2023

PAPMEM: registration open until January 19th

The Professional Development Program for High School Mathematics Teachers (PAPMEM) is accepting applications until January 19th. Classes will be held virtually from January 2Mondays to 2Fridays and will be broadcast on IMPA's YouTube channel . Participants can choose between remote or hybrid participation (with an in-person exam at one of the program's centers). Registration is free and can be done through IMPA's institutional system .

PAPMEM contributes to improving the training of high school mathematics teachers throughout Brazil. The initiative is open to all teachers in the public and private school systems, as well as undergraduate students from any field.

This year's content covers topics such as solving Olympiad problems in the classroom, probability, counting problems, isoperimetric inequality, parallelism and perpendicularity in the plane and in space, among others. The complete course schedule is available on the IMPA website.

During the program, IMPA's YouTube channel will broadcast two classes per day to participants at 9:00 AM. At the end of each class, exercises will be sent via an online form, which must be completed on the same day. The completed responses will count towards attendance and will guarantee the sending of a certificate of participation to the instructors.

Teachers who choose the hybrid modality will receive a certificate of participation based on their performance. In addition to classes, these participants must attend in person on January 2Fridays at the location selected during the application process to take the exam. The assessment will begin at 9:00 AM and will last 1 hour and 30 minutes. PAPMEM has been conducted for over 30 years by IMPA and involves institutions and teachers from all over the country. The program covers topics from all three years of high school and some from elementary school. The initiative has also given rise to a series of books aimed at high school teachers, published by the Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM) .