Past Events

About Math Challengers Our official name is the Canadian Math Challengers Society; however, we generally just call our group Math Challengers. Math Challengers is an enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes mathematics achievement...

The primary goal of this meeting is to build a sense of shared community among mathematics education graduate students, members of the graduate student community who have an interest in mathematics learning, senior undergraduate and post-doctoral...

The Victoria Math Circle is a venue for talented High School students to come together and work on some fun math problems as an enrichment activity. We will work mainly in groups on high school math competition problems. There may also be brief...

Demonstrations of fun methods to teach math and computer science.

This is the first major applied and industrial mathematics meeting jointly organized by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The respective mathematical societies involved are CAIMS/SCMAI, SIAM, and the Mexican Mathematical Society (SMM).

February 5, 2011: Lower Mailnland Regional Competition at UBC February 11, 2011: Vancouver Island Regional Competition at Camosun College (Landsdowne Campus) February 25, 2011: Okanagan Regional Competition at Okanagan College - Kelowna Campus March...

The workshop is intended to mathematicians who are contest coordinators or who are interested in joining us. The objectives are to share experiences and have discussions on: - organizing training sessions in all participating cities as well as...

Give Aboriginal students the tools to become problem solvers! In this workshop you will learn a variety of effective methods, including the Bar Model method, which helps develop in students a deeper understanding of fundamental concepts in...

October 28, 2010 Workshop for elementary school teachers: 1.- We will discuss assessment and its uses, and possible revisions on the tests and procedures. 2.- There will be a session in problem solving using various models, in particular the Bar...

What are Lesson Studies? "Lesson Studies", in various formats, have become popular in the teaching community as a means of professional development. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) will offer a series of workshops closely...