News archive - 2013

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

CEMC Partnership in The Gambia

$Group photo outside Victory Senior Secondary School entrance.$

As the five-year partnership between Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) and Youth Care Foundation (YCF) winds up, YCF has recently opened a new secondary school near Serekunda in The Gambia. Students from grades 9-12 in this West African community will now have more options to continue their studies.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Big E and Special K contest results 2013

The Big E and Special K contests 2013 (PDF) were held on Saturday November 9. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.

The Special K contest is for first year students and the Big E contest
is for upper year students. Both contests consist of six problems, and complete written solutions are required.

The winners of the Big E contest were:

Friday, November 15, 2013

Gift to CEMC enables outreach expansion

$Tom Higgins$

Tom Higgins still has an old certificate from a University of Waterloo math contest that he wrote when he was a kid. He had it framed and on his wall when he was 14 years old. It meant that much to him.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Math with Mike

$Math with Mike presentation slide.$

Mike Miniou joined our Faculty recently as the Mathematics liaison and outreach officer. In this new role, he has been visiting high schools and talking to students about "Mathematics in the real world". His visits to two of the schools are shared here.

Mathematics: The key to the universe

By Sasha (grade 8), St. Michaels University School

Friday, October 25, 2013