$EC30,000 in sponsorship has been pledged by the National Bank of Dominica (NBD) towards the Biennial Math Power Competition which is scheduled for April 7, 2020

​Thirty thousand dollars ($EC30,000) in sponsorship has been pledged by the National Bank of Dominica (NBD) towards the Biennial Math Power Competition which is scheduled for April 7th, 2020.At the Math Power launching ceremony last week, NBD’s Executive Manager of Marketing, Suzanne Joseph Piper, said her company is honoured to be part of an event that seeks to develop young people.
 
“This program is an important one for us and for our young people because math is such a central subject; a good command of math is advantageous in this fast paste technological world,” she noted.She said that apart from the math competitions, there should be an increase in other activities such as debates and national science and invention contests in Dominica.According to Math Power Contestcoordinator, Clement Vital, the competition consists of two segments and a maximum of two students and one stand-by student per school will participate.
 
He Vital stated that segment two will include problem-solving where students will be told to answer a series of math problems but this time, primary school students will be allowed to use a pen and paper, and secondary school participants will use a calculator.Eliminations for both primary and high schools will be done on the 17th, 18th, 19th 20th and 27th March, in different districts on the island.
 
“The top twenty-four schools from the eliminations at the primary level will go to the semifinals and the top five will be selected to go to the finals,” Vital said adding that at the high school level, the top five lower and upper high school students will proceed to the finals after eliminations.The competition is being held for the fifth time since its inception in 2009.