June 2 was a normal school day for all students except two, Arthur Minaud (5eA) and Pavle Ristic (4eB), who represented the LfdD in a very important mathematical competition, the Coupe Animath.
This competition takes place twice a year: in early October and early June.

After qualifying in the first round, which took place online, our two students had 3 hours to give their best for the second round of the competition.

We’d like to thank the students and their math teachers, Ms Boursault and Mr Bourgeois, for representing our school in the best math competitions.
We wish them good luck and look forward to seeing their future performances!

Do you like doing math too?
Come and share your passion with other young people your own age.
You’ll find some very interesting problems, very different from what you do in class.
It requires more ingenuity than knowledge.
You’ll learn a method of reasoning that will benefit you when you go on to higher education.
Animath is an association whose aim is to encourage young people to enjoy and practice mathematics.
Like a sports or cultural club, Animath organizes activities ranging from the simple pleasure of thinking about interesting problems to the most selective competitions.

Every year, the association enables thousands of middle and high school students interested in mathematics to take part in activities that complement their schoolwork: internships, prestigious national and international competitions, meetings with researchers, and so on.
These activities take place at local, national and international levels.

The Autumn Animath Cup is aimed at the best students from the fourth to the twelfth grades.
The winners then take part in Olympic preparation, and some are subsequently selected for various international competitions.

Admission to the Olympic correspondence course is by means of an entrance test, the Autumn Animath Cup, held every year at the beginning of October.
The hundred or so students selected then follow the preparatory course, which includes :
– Monthly mailings with 6 exercises to solve over the course of a month,
– Time-limited home and facility tests.

Towards the end of the year, some students take part in the winter camp and one or more international competitions:

– The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO/IMO) for six secondary school students.
– The Balkan Junior Mathematical Olympiad (JBMO) for six students aged 15.5 or under on the day of the event, held in June.
– The European Mathematical Olympiads for Girls (EGMO) for four girls from secondary schools.
– The Romanian Master of Mathematics (RMM)

The French Olympic Mathematics Preparation
The aim of the POFM is to prepare and select the middle and high school students who will represent France at various international mathematics competitions, as well as to give them the opportunity to practice mathematics that is different from that encountered in a school setting.
The POFM is one of the activities run by the Animath association, and involves around a hundred students every year.