PAMO is an annual event organised by the African Mathematical Union (AMU) to encourage youthful talent in Mathematics and to exchange information on curricula and teaching methods in mathematics across the African continent.
Africa needs to reclaim its position at the forefront of the world's mathematics stage, particularly because mathematics was born in Africa! A notched calendar stick over 35 000 years old, discovered recently in the Lebombo mountains, is the oldest mathematical artefact known. Written mathematics is first found in Africa, in the papyri of the pyramid-builders of ancient Egypt between four and five thousand years ago!
THE NEXT PAMO
The 15th Pan African Mathematics Olympiads of the African Mathematical Union (PAMO 2005) will take place in Alger, Algeria from 29 July to 4 August 2005.
Olympic medals for South African maths team
Although the Olympic Games have not yet begun, South Africa is already bringing home Olympic medals from Greece. In the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), which ended in Athens on July 18, the South African team of six high school students won three silver medals and one bronze medal.
The IMO forms part of the Hellenic Cultural Olympiad, being held in Greece in conjunction with the Olympic games.
[Read the press release]
Announcement of South African teams for the International and Pan African Mathematics Olympiads
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual problem-solving competition for teams of six high school students. The Pan African Mathematics Olympiad (PAMO) has the same format as the IMO, but is for teams of four only, from African countries. The teams to represent South Africa at these two events have been announced. [Read the announcement]
2003 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) results
The South African team of six high school students has won three Bronze Medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, held in Japan early in July 2003.
[View the media release and results]
THE 13TH PAMO A SUCCESS
South Africa top in African maths olympiad
For the second year running a team of four High School students from
South Africa have won top honours in the Pan African Mathematics
Olympiad (PAMO) which was held in Maputo, Mozambique from 19 to 27
April 2003.
The team consisting of:
- Linsen Loots (grade 12, Parel Vallei HS)
- Yumna Moosa (grade 10, Wynberg Girls' High School)
- Gayle Sher (grade 10, Reddam House)
- Divya Babu (grade 11, Ixopo High School)
took a Gold, 2 Silvers and a Bronze medal respectively.
The South African team won overall first place in the Olympiad team
rankings. Their coach, David Hatton (University of Cape Town), was
awarded a Gold Medal as the Team Leader of the winning team.
Linsen Loots was awarded the prize for the best student at the
Olympiad and Yumna Moosa the best girl participant. Gayle and Divya
were in fact the two next best girls.
This was the 13th PAMO, an annual event which first took place in
1987. Nine countries took part: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon
Lesotho, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Swaziland.
The students wrote two four-and-a-half hour papers on two successive
days. Each paper consisted of three questions. An International
Jury, consisting of representatives of all participating countries,
set and marked the papers and ranked the students in order of
achievement.
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