The “Initiation to Probability” programme introduces probability theory to middle-school students in Educational Priority Areas. The volunteer students from 6th to 9th grades are guided by mathematician and École Polytechnique Professor Josselin Garnier.

The aim of the Cournot workshops is to have the students work on a probability research project throughout the school year. The workshops take place at the school. At the end of their research project, the students participate in an annual conference organized by the French association for the promotion of mathematics, Math en Jeans. They present the results of their work using different media: an auditorium presentation, a stand with posters and interactive games, and an article published in the conference proceedings.

With the support of the Fondation Engie, the Cournot Fondation has launched its third year of “Initiation to probability”, a programme that introduces probability theory to middle-school students in Educational Priority Areas. The project is carried out in collaboration with the Collège des Petits Ponts à Clamart (92) in the Paris region. The volunteer students from 6th to 9th grades are guided by mathematician and École Polytechnique Professor Josselin Garnier.

With the support of the Fondation Engie, the Cournot Fondation has launched its second year of “Initiation to probability”, a programme that introduces probability theory and economics to middle-school students in Priority Education Networks (REP) in France. For the 2019–2020 school year, the project will be carried out in collaboration with the Collège des Petits Ponts à Clamart (92), a REP middle school in the Paris region.

The aim of the Cournot workshops is to have the students work on a research project throughout the school year. The weekly, half-day workshops take place at the school and are organized by middle-school mathematics teacher Clément Martin; the programme is coordinated by Josselin Garnier, mathematics professor at the École polytechnique. The topic of the 2019–2020 workshops is the study of board games.

The Foundation is working in collaboration with the French association for the promotion of mathematics, MATh.en.JEANS (MeJ), to carry out the project. In the spring, the students will participate in MATh.en.JEANS’ annual conference to present the results of their workshops using different media: an auditorium presentation, a stand with posters, interactive games and an article to be published in the conference proceedings at the end of the school year.

For more information, go to:
https://www.mathenjeans.fr/content/coll%C3%A8ge-les-petits-ponts-clamart-20192020

The programme « Initiation to probablity », supported by the Fondation Engie, was launched in 2018 and carried out in collaboration with the Collège des Petits Ponts à Clamart (92), a REP middle school in the Paris region. Volunteer students, aged 13-15, spent the year exploring three experimental games:

• the game of double or quits
• the game of martingales: heads or tails?
• the game of the maximum.

Article written by the students and published in the 2019 conference proceedings of the association Maths-en-jeans:
http://www.mathenjeans.fr/comptes-rendus