Daily Times

LAHORE: With an aim to teach mathematics in a new and interesting manner, Pakistan Maths Challenge (PMC) is all set to teach mathematics to thousands of students across the country from today (Monday).

The Pakistan Maths Challenge would see students compete in live, multi-player challenges. Students would be challenged with self-paced adaptive curriculum questions. 3P Learning Pakistan would organise the PMC for the fifth consecutive year from today (Monday) until October 23. More than 13,400 students from around 75 schools belonging to 24 cities across the country would participate in the seven-day event.

Some of the major private schools, like Lahore Grammar School (LGS), Learning Alliance, Beaconhouse Schools, Allied School, The City Schools, Dar e Arqam, along with many government schools would be participating in the competition, which would be held in nine categories, including students from kindergarten to grade 8.

The school that would get 1st position would receive a laptop, mathletics swag bag and printable digital certificates. The school getting 2nd position would be receiving Samsung Galaxy Tab for the school, a mathletics swag bag and printable digital certificates, whereas 3rd position holder would receive a mathletics swag bag and printable digital certificates.

Talking to Daily Times, 3P Learning Pakistan Programme Manager Iffat Ahmar said that the reason behind organising PMC was to spread technology in every field, especially education.

“Although students gadgetry technology is more important, but a question is usually raised that what content would be used for the students using tablets, laptops and android cell phones,” Ahmar added.

She said that this competition would provide a great learning experience for the students who think that mathematics was a very dry and boring subject. “The competition will help develop the interest of students in mathematics in a better and innovative way,” she added.

Ahmer further elaborated that 3P Learning Pakistan has introduced curriculum-based math, which would taught through games. This system would help students to learn mathematics themselves in PMC, she said, adding that we had used the technology in such a manner that student’s participation is checked and evaluated at every step.

“We will evaluate the student’s activity while remaining online as what time he spent, the speed of accuracy, when he logged in and when logged out, then his results will be finalized,” she informed.

On a query, she said, “We selected the lower classes for the competition, as the upcoming generation is more attracted towards technology, therefore it will be easy for them to adjust with the software.”