The Mathematics Education Student Association (Turn around) FKIP UNS together with the Mathematics Education Study Program FKIP UNS held a series of competitions packaged in Aritmatika Volume XI activities. Aritmatika is a program that contains mathematics olympiad competitions at the junior and senior high school levels, learning media competitions for students, and microteaching competitions for students.
In 2023, Aritmatika entered its 11th volume with the theme “Bright Your Intelligence to be the Next Genius Mathematician”. This year’s Aritmatika was attended by more than 500 junior/high school students and 25 student teams. The participants competed to be the best in each branch of the competition.
The math olympiad event at the junior/senior high school level which is a series of Aritmatika volume XI events is held with 3 stages of competition. The first stage is the preliminary round where participants will be given the opportunity to work on multiple choice questions through the website that has been provided to be filtered and taken 50 best participants in each level. The second stage is the semi-final round where participants who pass the preliminary round will be asked to work on short fill-in questions and descriptions about math to later take the 7 best participants who advance to the final round.
The final round of the Aritmatika Mathematics Olympiad volume XI was held offline at Building G FKIP UNS on September 10, 2023. The final round was attended by Mr. Triyanto S.Si., M.Si. as the Head of Mathematics Education Department of FKIP UNS and Prof. Dr. Mardiyana M.Si. as the Dean of FKIP UNS who also gave a speech and handed over trophies to the winners in the Aritmatika Mathematics Olympiad volume XI. The final round consisted of 2 sessions, namely a presentation session where participants were asked to work on problems to be presented to the jury and a scramble round where participants would scramble to solve the problem first. From this final round, the 3 best participants from each level were obtained as the champions of the Aritmatika Volume XI math olympiad.
In addition to the math olympiad, another series of events at Aritmatika volume XI was a learning media competition and microteaching for undergraduate students. This event has the main goal of creating creative and innovative prospective mathematics teachers through the use of technology. The learning media and microteaching competition consisted of 2 rounds, namely the preliminary round and the final round. In the preliminary round, participants were asked to submit learning media works, papers, and presentation videos for later assessment in the learning media competition. While for the microteaching competition. participants are asked to send lesson plans that will be assessed by the jury. In this preliminary round, the best 10 participants from each competition will be taken to take part in the final round.
In the final round, the learning media and microteaching competitions were held online through a zoom meeting on September 16, 2023. In the learning media competition, participants will present the learning media that has been made and ask questions with the jury. While in the microteaching competition, participants are asked to practice teaching directly online which will be witnessed and assessed by the jury. In this learning media and microteaching competition, the 3 best participants from each competition were taken as champions.
