The pupils involved are from Class 5, that is, that they are 10 - 11 years old. As they have been together now for several years and have made friends with each other, they are also are willing to spend their spare time together. The class is above average in ability. These children have proved themselves to be greatly interested not only in mathematics and other exact sciences but in other areas of the curriculum as well. We have been unable to manage to include these exercises in the syllabus of mathematics and so the pupils deal with these problems during computer science lessons.
Most pupils have a PC at home but access to the Internet in Hungary is currently quite expensive.
Owing to new and fast developments this is set to change soon. Until this happens the children will continue to get the problems printed. We discuss the solutions during study circle time where the pupils can explain their ideas about different ways of solving the problem and how they may have reached the solution. We discuss all the ideas and try to take the problem further. Although my pupils have been learning English for three years they need their English teacher's help to translate these problems more correctly.