Observations:

It has been seen that bulk of population of Orissa live in rural area. Of all children who attend the school most are in the rural area. The Olympiads that were being conducted in India did not touch the rural population. If talents are to be looked for it is imperative that we include the rural talents too. But because of the socio economic condition of the parents of the rural children they are unable to participate even in the general talents search programme.  Up to Class-V the rural as well urban children have about the same competence. But a quantum jump occurs at Class-VI level.  To avert this challenging situation RMTS (Rural Math Talent Search) is an unique and pioneering work conceived by IMA (Institute of Mathematics and Applications), BBSR. 

 

The Aim and Objectives  of  RMTS program are:

• To spot Mathematics talents at Class-VI level
• Train them regularly for three years to hone their talent and skills.
• Through such periodic training prepare them to compete with better equipped urban children.
• To kindle an interest in solving challenging problems in mathematics.
• Generate greater interest in education in general.
• Stem the tide of dropouts through spread of ideas of positive reinforcement.
• Train teachers into practicing teaching in a cooperative environment and modern methods of teaching mathematics.

Our experiences of last four years have shown that this is showing signs of working.