2004/05 INTERNATIONAL INFO
		Weekly Quiz

AN INVITATION

KappAbel is a competition in Mathematics for school classes in the Nordic countries (Norway and Iceland: 9th grade - Denmark, Finland and Sweden: 8th grade). The pupils of the participating classes the school year 2004/05 were born 1991.

In the Nordic countries the competition consists of two qualifying rounds taking place in the classrooms. The teacher has to download the problems from the internet (using a user’s name and a password given him/her from KappAbel), and the answers must be registered the same way.

On the basis of these two qualifying rounds a number of classes qualify for the National semi final (and eventually for the final). From each of these classes a team consisting of 2 boys and 2 girls is invited to the town where the finals take place.

But before the semi final these classes have to prepare a project work on a theme given them by KappAbel. This school year the theme is “Mathematics and the body”. The teams to take part in the final qualify through the points given for this project work together with the result of the problem solving session in the semi final.

For more information about the competition, go to http://www.kappabel.com/indexfiler/Regler-0304-Eng.html and http://www.kappabel.com/indexfiler/Prosjektregler-0304-N.html (the latter so far unfortunately in Norwegian only).

However: The KappAbel competition would be very happy if classes from other countries than just the Nordic countries would like to take part in the competition.

Therefore any class with pupils of the actual age, regardless from what part of the world, is invited to compete in what we’ll call an “International KappAbel Guests’ Class”. For obvious reasons it is not possible to arrange a “National semi final” or a final for these classes, but the best class after the two qualifying rounds will be rewarded a prize of NOK 2.000,00 (about € 240). The prize will be awarded if 10 classes or more (including classes from Norwegian schools abroad) take part.

Further: In each of the two rounds all classes sending a paper copy of the internet registration of their answers take part in the drawing of 5 prizes of NOK 2.000,00 each, regardless how many points they have achieved. (The main reason that we ask for these paper copies is that we want to avoid problems in those cases where it turns out that a given answer because of technical errors has not been properly registered on the internet and therefore seems to have been lost.) 

This year the first round will take place in the time November 8^th – 19^th.

The problems for the qualifying rounds will be available in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic and English versions. For pupils using other languages the teacher will have to download the problems as soon as they are available on the internet, and then make his/her own translation into the preferred language. There should be sufficient time for this work, as the problems are available 2 weeks before the answers have to be registered.

Interested?

Then you should send a mail to KappAbel (roald.buvig@kappabel.com) asking for a user’s name and password. Please send your message from an e-mail address that may easily be identified as an official teacher’s or school’s e-mail address (we cannot send passwords etc. to addresses like for instance “st-peter121@hotmail.com”).

The English version of the problems given in the two qualifying rounds 2003/04 may be found here: Round 1  - Round 2

Any question about the competition, about practical measures or the terms for participation is welcome. Just send a mail to the address above.

Diesen Text gibt es leider nur auf Englisch, aber wenn Sie Fragen haben, schicken Sie gern eine Meldung auf Deutsch, und Sie bekommen eine Antwort auf Deutsch.

Updated: October 15^th 2004