The second Family Mathematics Olympiad has been Launched in Russia

Registration has opened for the "From A to Z" Family Mathematical Olympiad, a nationwide competition organized by Adyghe State University. The Olympiad will be held remotely on the All Cups technology platform from VK and will conclude with the All-Russian finals on November 29. The initiative is timed to coincide with Mathematician's Day in Russia, celebrated on December 1.

The "From A to Z" Family Mathematical Olympiad for the Whole Country is a remote team-based mathematics competition organized as part of the "Science Around. Season Three" project by Adyghe State University with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the Decade of Science and Technology. The project aims to popularize mathematics education and enhance the general mathematical culture of schoolchildren and their parents, stimulate interest in the subject, and develop cognitive activity.

Teams from across the country are welcome to participate in the competition. Each team must include a school-age child and one adult family member. The remaining participants can be of any age. The maximum number of team members is five.

"We encourage you to involve not only parents, sisters, and brothers in the team, but also grandparents, aunts and uncles, and so on. We believe that solving engaging math problems together brings families together and helps instill in children an interest in science. This is a great option for Sunday family fun. To this end, the problem committee has prepared tasks with short, clear objectives, which, however, require some time to work through. Knowledge from the school curriculum will be sufficient. The main challenge is figuring out what to do," said Daud Mamiy, Rector of Adyghe State University .

No prior Olympiad experience is required. Family teams can register on the All Cups technology platform through November 21 at https://naukavokrug.adygnet.ru/family/ . After registration, participants will have access to practice tests. 

Additionally, to further deepen the topic, this year, for the first time, the Family Mathematical Olympiad "From A to Z" is supported by a joint special project with TASS, "Formula of Our Home" ( https://naukavokrug-olimpiada.tass.ru/ ). This project will allow users to see examples of how mathematics helps in everyday life, and how ordinary phenomena and objects help develop mathematical ideas.

The qualifying round will take place on November 22. Participants will have 60 minutes to solve the problems. You can begin solving them at any time between 11:00 AM and 12:30 PM Moscow time.

Each round consists of three thematic sections, each of which challenges participants to solve four problems of varying difficulty. The sections for the qualifying round are: "Cartoons," "Math in the Kitchen," and "Numbers with Character." The final sections are: "Geometric Workshop," "Ciphers" (encrypting proverbs), and "Small Business."

"It will be important not only to solve as many problems as possible, but also to assess the team's capabilities and choose the right strategy—to solve a few simple problems or spend more time on complex tasks that will earn more points," explained Sergey Volchenkov, chairman of the Olympiad jury and associate professor at P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University .

Teams with the highest total points in the shortest time will be invited to participate in the finals. The Olympiad finals will take place on November 29th. Teams will solve problems live in the studio with the hosts. The winner will be the team with the highest score at the end of the final round. In the event of a tie, all teams with the highest scores will be declared winners.

The finals will be hosted by renowned mathematics popularizers Daud Mamiy, Rector of Adygea State University and organizer of national and international educational mathematics projects, and Nikolai Andreev, winner of the Lilavati Prize, a researcher at the Caucasus Mathematical Center of ASU and head of the Laboratory for Popularization and Outreach of Mathematics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The broadcast will be available on the VK Video platform in the "Science Around" project community.

All teams participating in the Olympiad will receive an electronic Olympiad participant certificate.

As a reminder, last year's first Family Mathematical Olympiad "From A to Z" was a success, attracting over 700 teams from Russia and Mongolia. The top three regions in terms of the number of teams participating were Krasnodar Krai, the Lugansk People's Republic, and Rostov Oblast. The Shapkin family from Tyumen Oblast won, consisting of an eighth-grade student from the Tyumen Physics and Mathematics School and his parents—a neurosurgeon, his father, and a designer, his mother. Second place went to the Rassolka family from Yaroslavl, and third went to the Volkov team from Tver Oblast.