Brainfinity problem solving week
December 7-13, 2020
Join the global problem solver community

The second round of qualifications in Brainfinity 2022 required students to explore whether one person-one car is the most common traffic situation. In the second step of this challenge, problem solvers tried to persuade drivers to quit that practice, and to car-pool with their neighbors, cousins or friends in a video message. The criterion for this challenge was that the video message hits at least 500 views on one of the social media, and it represents a collage of our problem solvers’ works.

Geometry originated as a practical way to handle lengths, areas, volumes, and although it has changed a lot since then, the general concepts that lie in the basis of geometry remain unchanged, regardless of the method of work. In this workshop, students used their stride length to measure the distances needed for a triangle, while using their classmates as the vertices. You will learn what creative approaches students used for geodetic design featuring different elements, and what new media, such as Geogebra, they used. The workshop is held by Jasmina Savković.

Seven teams headed by Aleksandra Žižić have participated in Brainfinity since its very beginning, and this is the reason why the workshop was created in the first place. Participants in the workshop introduced their teams, explaining what solving Brainfinity challenges and the competition itself mean to them, as well as what are the effects of this form of learning and cooperation in a video they made. The video also explained how they got together, what motivates them, how they solve challenges as a team, and many other things.

To what extent does faith in success actually lead to success, and what is the role of parents and teachers in all that? Brainfinity has faith in its contestants, and success is guaranteed, which can be seen by their performance in the competition. You will hear more about this, and many other things from one of the leading experts in educational psychology – Dragica Pavlović – Babić.

Imagine meeting a person who does not speak any language you use, but who wants to tell you something very important, or imagine being on an important mission, where you need to send messages that should be comprehensible only to the chosen audience. How would you solve this problem? 

It is well known that mathematics is the language of science. However, in this case, we want to know what is the place of mathematics in living languages, and vice versa, where do living languages fit into mathematics, and who helped whom to develop? We will show how to use the Morse code, Braille, and sign language as teaching aids that utilise three senses – hearing, sight, and touch with the aim of developing interdisciplinary competences. 

The workshop is held by Zorana Lužanin, professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics in Novi Sad.

Something truly amazing is happening around the world: an unprecedented number of employees with secure and well-paid jobs are quitting. The aim of this challenge is to determine what is happening with all the people who quit their jobs, and what is the future of the workforce.

This video problem is a task for all listeners. Send your answers to info@brainfinity.org. You will find the best solutions in a new video published by Vladislav Radak regarding the rising trend of layoffs, and the teachers who solve this task will receive a certificate.

On the Problem day, the participants will finally find out about the solution of the problem “Kebab”.

What are the most important skills for the future labor market, and how does Brainfinity help develop those skills? How can Brainfinity help people from the corporate world adapt to the fourth industrial revolution, and what are the companies’ expectations from Brainfinity? All this and more you can hear from Slobodan Anić, director of Ametek Serbia.

Brainfinity Week 2021 will end by honoring George Polya, on his birthday. George Polya is one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and more importantly for us, one of the pioneers of problem solving. In this interesting lecture, you can hear what advice the father of problem solving has for the new generations, as well as for teachers, and how they can help develop these skills. The lecture will be held by Aleksandra Rosić.

All participants are invited to discuss Brainfinity Week and educational trends with our lecturers. The main topic is: what our children need to be successful in the coming times?