Damascus-Sana
The Excellence and Creativity Authority conducts the first admission tests for the Young Science Olympiad in Mathematics and Science for the year 2021 "remotely" for students interested in the seventh and eighth grades of basic education.
The authority indicated in a statement that SANA received a copy of it today that the tests that began on the thirteenth of this month and continue until the eighteenth of it include a set of questions within the scientific knowledge found in the general education curriculum that monitors logical thinking skills and mathematical analysis in the specializations of “Mathematics and Physics” Chemistry and the natural sciences ”.
The authority had launched this Olympiad on the fourteenth of last March, with the aim of refining young minds, developing the skills of adolescents in mathematics and science, and teaching them the skill of managing priorities, organizing time, and intellectual and scientific skills through solving problems in an innovative and creative manner and getting out of solving problems in a normal or stereotypical manner and testing the competitors' knowledge with questions
Motivation from outside the curriculum context and in accordance with the expected mental age of the target group, in order to provide the national teams of the Syrian Scientific Olympiad with distinguished cases from them.