Memorandum of cooperation with Kangaroo

On March 21 the principal of the Georgian-American School of Tbilisi (GAST), Irakli Manelidze and the director of International Competition in Mathematics Kangaroo, Archil Elizbarashvili signed a memorandum of cooperation(MoC), which aims to support mathematical education in schools across the country and promote a positive perception of mathematics in society.

Within the framework of cooperation, a math competition was held for the students of GAST at the premises of the school. More than 60 students through the grades 1 to 6 took part in the competition. The Kangaroo questions are not standard math textbook problems and cover a large variety of topics, which require perseverance and creativity, as well as imagination, basic computational skills, logical thinking and other problem solving strategies.

Kangoroo is the biggest competition in mathematics in the world. Annually more than 6 million students from more than 120 countries worldwide take part in the competition. Kangaroo’s focus is on improving students’ math scores and teaching them new strategies for solving logic problems, helping them with critical thinking and gaining confidence in the classroom.