PAPMEM – January 2026
The program
The Program for the Improvement of High School Mathematics Teachers – PAPMEM, created by the mathematician from Alagoas Elon Lages Lima, aims to improve the training of high school mathematics teachers throughout Brazil.
It has been held for more than 30 years by IMPA and has the participation of institutions and professors from all federative units of Brazil. Since its inception, PAPMEM has benefited thousands of teachers from all over the country. This program resulted in a series of books especially aimed at high school teachers, published by the Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM).
Course organization
Each edition of the program takes place in a single module and addresses topics from High School and some from Elementary School. They are held simultaneously at IMPA and in partner institutions throughout the country. We currently have about 70 centers and 3,000 participating teachers. At IMPA we have 150 students per module.
When and where
The lectures are taught in the morning and broadcast live from IMPA to participating institutions in other states. In the afternoon, directed studies are carried out supervised by professors from each center. The activities take place during school breaks, in January and July.
Registration
Applications must be made through our online system from December 10, 2025 to January 16, 2026.
Didactic material
The material of the classes, exercises and templates are published here
on our website.
Modalities
There will be two types of participation to be defined at the time of application. See the descriptions below and select the option you want.
Participation
The teacher who selects this option will attend this edition only remotely. The teacher must access IMPA’s YouTube , watch the classes posted daily (26 to 29/01), solve the 6 exercises proposed each day and send the answers on the same day by electronic form, which will be received via email registered in our institutional system. At the end of this edition, the teacher will be entitled to the certificate of participation if he/she submits, within the given period, the 4 forms and obtains 2/3 (or more) of correct answers.
Participation with performance
The teacher who selects this option will attend this edition in a hybrid way. The teacher must appear in person, on 01/30 (Friday), at the place selected at the time of application to take the test, in addition to accessing IMPA’s YouTube and watching the classes posted daily (01/26 to 01/29), solving the 6 exercises proposed each day and sending the answers on the same day by electronic form that will receive via registration email in our institutional system.
Evaluation in person
When choosing the modality of participation with performance, the candidate must select the center where he wants to take the face-to-face test. IMPA will inform the coordinators of the name and email of the approved candidates for each center. The coordinator of the center will pass on to the selected candidates, via email, information such as location, room and time of the test. The selected candidate must go in person to the campus informed by the local coordinator to take the test on Friday of the week of the event.
Programming and teaching materials
| Monday 26/01/2026 |
Tuesday 27/01/2026 |
Wednesday 28/01/2026 |
Thursday 29/01/2026 |
Friday 30/01/2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Eduardo Wagner |
Paulo Cezar |
Rodrigo Villard |
Pedro Malagutti |
Face-to-face assessment 09:00 to 10:30 Note: Only for teachers enrolled in modality 2. |
| Luciano Castro Olympics in the classroom |
Fávia Landim Planning before analyzing: how can Simpson’s paradox be avoided? |
Humberto Bortolossi An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Teachers: Unveiling Potential, Limitations, and Challenges |
Carlos Gomes The “phi-Bonacci” sequence |
Answers to questions 11:00 to 12:00 |
| Solutions for the exercises of 01/26/2026 | Solutions for the exercises of 01/27/2026 | Solutions for the exercises of 01/28/2026 | Solutions for the exercises of 01/29/2026 | ⇒ Final evaluation ⇒ Final Evaluation Solutions ⇒ Forms Exercises Template |
More information
- From Monday to Thursday, 02 classes will be available at 09h on IMPA’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@impabr
- Daily at 9 am, Brasília time, the list of exercises and the answer form will be sent to the e-mail registered in the system. The form must be answered within 24 hours, Brasilia time, of each day. This response will count as attendance and, therefore, issuance of a certificate.
- If any student has questions about the subjects, they must send the questions by Thursday 29/01/2026 at 14 pm for the teachers to analyze. The selected questions will be answered on Friday, 01/30.
In-person evaluation of the edition
- The face-to-face evaluation will take place on 01/30, from 9:00 am to 10:40 am, at the center chosen by the teacher at the time of application.
- The teacher’s score in this modality will be the sum of the number of correct answers in the daily questions (maximum of 24 points) with the score of the discursive test (maximum of 76 points). If this score is greater than or equal to 60, the teacher will be entitled to the certificate of participation with performance and his score will be recorded in the certificate.
