Kudos to Young Bangladeshis

[ekatturerBangalee]

Six young Bangladeshi high school students have the great opportunity to attend the International Mathematics Olympiad for the first time this year now being held in Mexico.

Wishing our young contesters best of luck.

http://www.matholympiad.org.bd/

[Ahmed_B]

Best of luck!

[Mahir]

go guys! Disprove that so-called theory about the chinese math gene...

[Akib]

Good Luck. Hope you guys win and beat the chinese and thus disprove the theory that MasterBlaster just stated.

[reverse_swing]

Kudos to Dr. Jafor Iqbal, JRC,Kaykobad Sir and Prothom-alo who actually started Bangla Olympiad few years ago.

Edited on, July 19, 2005, 9:09 AM GMT, by reverse_swing.

[couger]

This is wonderful. I'm sure the youngsters will make us proud. Good luck guys. Go get'em.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Akib
Good Luck. Hope you guys win and beat the chinese and thus disprove the theory that MasterBlaster just stated.

Chinese are not the smartes people in Math. Japan is rated 1st since 2002. India is some in top 20th. I can't remeber; possibly 11th or 12th???

[bd_cricket]

Originally posted by Logen

Chinese are not the smartes people in Math. Japan is rated 1st since 2002. India is some in top 20th. I can't remeber; possibly 11th or 12th???

But China was the top in 1997, 1999 to 2002 and also last year in International Math Olympiad. You can check the result for every year in following link.

International Math Olympiad

Bangladesh is probably competing for the first time this year. Good luck to them.

[Ahmed_B]

This Math Olympiad conducted recetnly in BD by some respectable scholars was highly encouraging for the young talents and was widely participated.

I'm not sure what others think about this whole effort... But I dare say that these sort of efforts are hopefully the beginning of a Changing Bangladesh... just like our cricket. It's starting to show how eger the whole nation is to uplift it's image and contribution. Only the political scums are standing on the way!

[mwrkhan]

Originally posted by reverse_swing
Kudos to Dr. Jafor Iqbal, JRC,Kaykovad Sir and Prothom-alo who actually started Bangla Olympiad few years ago.

JRC and my father were friends and roommates from their Dhaka college days right up through BUET.

[reverse_swing]

JRC is currently VC of the BRAC university. He left BUET couple of years ago.

[mwrkhan]

I know.

[newbie]

Originally posted by Ahmed_B
But I dare say that these sort of efforts are hopefully the beginning of a Changing Bangladesh... just like our cricket. It's starting to show how eger the whole nation is to uplift it's image and contribution. Only the political scums are standing on the way!

I do not know if I can agree with this 100%. Scholarship seems to have taken the back seat with respect to other activities in which Bangladesh is prospering, e.g., entrepeneurship and sports. Take BUET for e.g., if you look at the senior professors, many of them have returned after completing PhDs from prestigious universities abroad, and some are quite well known in the field. However, there seems to be a vacuum in the junior (Associate/Assistant Professor) levels. Very few are returning from higher education. Moreover, many good faculty are leaving for abroad, or taking on part-time teaching position at private Universities at the expense of serious research. This has largely to do with the salary system and the changing perceptions in society. In the past, a Professor had a great deal of respect whether or not he/she had money. However, because of the rising living standards in middle/upper class, this perception is changing. Ofcourse, there are exceptions to the above.

[Ahmed_B]

Originally posted by newbie

I do not know if I can agree with this 100%. Scholarship seems to have taken the back seat with respect to other activities in which Bangladesh is prospering, e.g., entrepeneurship and sports. Take BUET for e.g., if you look at the senior professors, many of them have returned after completing PhDs from prestigious universities abroad, and some are quite well known in the field. However, there seems to be a vacuum in the junior (Associate/Assistant Professor) levels. Very few are returning from higher education. Moreover, many good faculty are leaving for abroad, or taking on part-time teaching position at private Universities at the expense of serious research. This has largely to do with the salary system and the changing perceptions in society. In the past, a Professor had a great deal of respect whether or not he/she had money. However, because of the rising living standards in middle/upper class, this perception is changing. Ofcourse, there are exceptions to the above.

I am not sure I get your point. The problem you have mentioned is related to our education structuer in the Univeristy level... and I agree that it does exist.

But I was rather talking about the more social kind of movements (like this successful olympiad) that has started to show up and specially the response of the youngest generations to these activities. All of which, I feel, is very positive.

[chucker]

does any one know the final results?

[bd_cricket]

Originally posted by chucker
does any one know the final results?

The result is pathetic for Bangladesh.
Here is the results of individual players and also team

There were total 6 problems - each carried 7 points. Only two participants from Bangladesh could score. But they couldn't solve any of the problems. One scored 1 and another scored 2. Rest scored nil. So the total team score is 3.

Bangladesh tied with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Luxembourg, Tajikistan - all scored 3. And was ahead of Mozambique (2) and Bolivia (0).

China won again. They scored 235, followed by USA(213), Iran (201), Korea (200), Romania (191), Taiwan (190), Japan (188), Hungary(181), Ukrain(181).

This was the first time Bangladesh ever participated. And according to JRC's interview they didn't have much time to prepare for this contest. They wanted to do a month long preparation camp but couldn't do that since some of the participants had SSC or HSC exam.

Hope we shall do better next time.

[mwrkhan]

There is always a beginning. Let's hope we do better next time.

Preparation for Mathematical Olympiads is exhaustive, extremely rigorous and time consuming. For most countries that do well (the usual suspects, China, Korea, Japan, USA, Russia atc.) there is normally an intensive selection procedure based upon regional competitions followed by highly specialised training that may last months.

The content of these competitions is usually based upon pure spatial geometry, number theory and combinatorics. Calculus based questions are normally not set. This is to accomodate regional variations in high school curricula (in some countries calculus is taught at the high school level in others not). Specialised training is an absolute must.

The competitors must be chosen on the basis of their unique mathematical abilities and not merely their performance as students within the ambit of a high school curriculum. The skills required for this compettition are totally different from those needed to do well on Board examinations. Our organisers/sponsors must realize this.

If BD is to do well in the future we must seek out maths prodigies in the same way we seek out pace bowlers - by holding regional contests. Once a select few have been chosen they must be [b]trained[b] separately for the competition alone.

[Orpheus]

combined score of 3 - hahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahaha


no point for writing name?

Edited on, July 19, 2005, 9:30 PM GMT, by Orpheus.

[Locutus]

I don;t find anything funny