Mathematics Tournament as a Method to Demonstrate and to Enhance Learning Outcomes
The paper shares the experience of interacting with Mathematics teachers and 5th�6th grade schoolchildren in order to obtain and demonstrate new learning outcomes in mastering Mathematics by means of such a non-conventional technique, as Mathematics Tournament. Recommendations are provided on how to organize and hold a regional mathematical tournament for 5th � 6th grade general school pupils. Preliminary analysis of mathematical tournament pilot approbation in the Krasnoyarsk Krai is done. Educational organizations can use tournament results to improve methods of mathematics teaching, while various municipal and regional executive authorities responsible for public administration in the educational sphere can find tournament results useful for evaluation of current situation in municipal and regional educational systems and initiation of programs of their further development.