Освещена конкурсно-олимпиадная деятельность как один из инструментов образовательного процесса. Дан анализ участия студентов филиала Дальневосточного федерального университета в г. Находке конкурсах и олимпиадах за период 2019 Представлены формы такой деятельности, показана важность проведения данных мероприятий. Использование конкурсно-олимпиадной деятельности дает возможность педагогу раскрыт...

We investigate a coin-weighing puzzle that appeared in the 1991 Moscow Math Olympiad. We generalize the puzzle by varying the number of participating coins, and deduce an upper bound on the number of weighings needed to solve the puzzle that is noticeably better than the trivial upper bound. In particular, we show that logarithmically-many weighings on a balance suffice.

The International Olympiad in Informatics is a worldwide contest for high school students, with a strong focus on creativity and ingenuity in algorithm design. Here we describe the activities in Australia that support and complement this contest, including a range of programming competitions, more accessible penand-paper competitions, and other enrichment and training activities. Sample problem...

We investigate a coin-weighing puzzle that appeared in the all-Russian Mathematics Olympiad in 2000. The methods of analysis differ from classical coin-weighing puzzles. We generalize the puzzle by varying the number of participating coins, and deduce a complete solution. Perhaps surprisingly, the objective can be achieved in no more than two weighings regardless of the number of coins involved.

Communication of schoolchildren in social networks, on the one hand, contributes to their socialization and development communication skills, but, other creates socially dangerous precedents threats. The new Federal State Educational Standard for Basic General Education actualizes importance developing ethical legal norms interaction Internet among schoolchildren. On distance learning portal Om...

Coursebooks discussing graph algorithms usually have a chapter on minimum spanning trees. It usually contains Prim’s and Kruskal’s algorithms [1, 2] but often lacks other applications. This type of problem is rarely present at informatics competitions or in tests in secondary or higher level informatics education This article is aimed at describing some competition tasks that help us prove that...

The original proposal of the IOI Syllabus was co-authored by Tom Verhoeff1, Gyula Horváth2, Krzysztof Diks3, and Gordon Cormack4. The current maintainer of the Syllabus is Michal Forǐsek5. The Syllabus evolves thanks to input from the IOI community. The following people helped to evolve the Syllabus by sending in their feedback: Paul Ashton (NZL), Thomas Barnet-Lamb (GBR), Giorgio Casadei (ITA)...

The first Computational 8 Ball Tournament was held at the 10 th Computer Olympiad in Taiwan this past September, 2005. In this report, I will describe some of the characteristics of the game of 8 ball which make it interesting to model computationally. I will also describe the software system that we developed to allow competitors to play a fair game, in the presence of noise. I conclude with a...