THE MAGIC OF THE NUMBERS: NEW PARADIGM FOR ORGANIZING THE MATHEMATICS COMPETITIONS

In this paper we aim to highlight and, also, to share from our experience, the one of the main organizers of the national mathematics contest "Magic of the Numbers", intended for pupils from the third grade to the 12th grade, at the both Ml classes and M2 classes. In this competition, the University of Pitesti, more precisely, Education Sciences Department, is a partner, alongside School Inspectorate of Olt District (ISJ Olt) and the thirty other schools from the fifteen counties of the country. By the modern aspect of organizing this contest, we mean the collaboration between all the participating math teachers for the design the templates of assessment items, the emailing them in the contest day at each contest center for being open, and so it is building of network consisting of all the contest centers which are distributing through the country. Also, we want to highlight the benefits of this kind of collaboration and professional communication between the math teachers on the mathematical contents of this contest, which are proposed to the students. The participating students in this contest have the opportunity to learn what perseverance, patience and responsibility means. For the students of the terminal classes of the scholar cycles, this contest is also an opportunity for their self-acquiring math knowledge before the national evaluations, the capacity examines and baccalaureate examines, because for these students, the subjects of the contest are according to the models which are proposed by National Education Ministry (M.E.N.)'s evaluations. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK