Contest Objectives
Children are curious, active learners with distinct interests, abilities and needs. They learn by attaching meaning to what they do, and they need to construct their own meaning of mathematics. Participation of students in ICATS competitions provides them an opportunity to develop essential links among concrete, pictorial and symbolic representations of mathematical concepts. The participants must realize that it is acceptable at ICATS to solve problems in a variety of ways and that a variety of solutions may be acceptable.
The contest will test candidates’ abilities to:
- understand and apply mathematical concepts and skills in a variety of contexts, including the manipulation of mathematical expressions and use of graphing calculators.
- reason and communicate mathematically through writing mathematical explanation, arguments and proofs, and inferences.
- solve unfamiliar problems; translate common realistic contexts into mathematics; interpret and evaluate mathematical results, and use the results to make predictions, or comment on the context.
Classes Participants: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 A & C
