Math Festival Ends
Call to set up math club in every school
Staff Correspondent
The two-day National Mathematics Festival ended at Notre Dame College in Dhaka yesterday with a call to set up mathematics club in every school across the country. As many as 411 students, who have won at divisional and regional levels, took part in the final maths Olympiad competition divided into four categories. Among the winners, four students, one from each category, were given awards as champion of the champions at the prize giving ceremony. They are Mir Imtiaz Mustafiz, Naimul Arif, ASM Sohail Islam and Mir Manzur-al-Mahmud. Surprise contest, seminar on science and mathematics and open discussion were the other events on the last day of the festival. Bangladesh Math Olympiad Committee has organised the festival in collaboration with the Dutch-Bangla Bank and the national daily Prothom Alo. Speakers at the prize giving ceremony hoped that Bangladeshi students will become champions at international level soon. Professor and writer Mohammed Jafar Iqbal said, "Our students are able to express their creativity although the present education system is responsible for stifling their creativity." Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, vice-chancellor of BRAC university, and noted scientist Prof. Jamal Nazrul Islam also spoke.
|