Our judges were Janet Blair from the University of Cambridge ORBIT team, two primary school children (the youngest 5) and myself. You can see the entries by searching ORBITCOMP in GeoGebraTube. Some were very good but did not include the required necessary descriptions for ORBIT, some were apparent duplications, but more than three were really excellent. Janet from the ORBIT team now says’ I’m a big fan of GeoGebra and I look forward to integrating some of these resources into the enquiry-based learning unit of our OER4Schools online professional development resource.’ We will be contacting authors. (http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OER4Schools).

So…here are the results:

3rd place goes to goldenj (the number and representation game), ‘I could already see an improvement in my 5 year olds counting strategy after a while of playing it.’ says the parent.

2nd place goes to irinaboyadzhiev for positioning fractions

1st place goes to Orchiming Anthony Or for variety of areas and fixed perimeters

In conclusion, we thank and salute the professionalism of our entrants and the power of the GeoGebra community, note the fact that GeoGebra can be used by 5-year olds, and are considering what to do with a late entry describing a GeoGebra workshop for 240 children average age 8! WOW!
http://www.geogebraitalia.org/corso-base-geogebra/

Members of the GeoGebra community will vote for the top 25 activities, and experts in primary maths will designate the three winners. The three winners of the ORBIT/GeoGebra competition (and probably some of those on the shortlist) will have their activities posted on the ORBIT wiki alongside teachers from prominent teacher education institutions.

This is a unique opportunity to have your name associated with a high profile, innovative University of Cambridge project.

For further information, see: http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/ORBIT/GeoGebra

ORBIT GeoGebra Competition

Submit your primary mathematics activity for a chance to win University of Cambridge prizes & certificates and have your activity posted on a high profile educational website!

Members of the GeoGebra community will vote for the top 25 activities, and experts in primary maths will designate the three winners.

More information at http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/ORBIT/GeoGebra

Competition for UK students = opportunity to use GeoGebra!
Tarquin MEI Prize 2013 

Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI), a national mathematics education charity, is working with Tarquin, a publisher and supplier of educational books and materials, to offer an annual prize for post-16 students. The competition is to design a video, animation, GeoGebra file or some other electronic artefact that communicates mathematical ideas being used to solve an engineering or another practical problem of some kind. You can find full details about the competition by following the Prizes link from the Tarquin website at www.tarquingroup.com. You may also wish to consider extending the work that goes into the entry into a larger project that could be used as part of the requirements for the Extended Project qualification. Further details about this qualification are available on the MEI website at www.mei.org.uk/EP