The proposal of the Fair is based on the four principles posited for a SNAP
math Fair; its design was made by a group in Canada. We chose this type of
Fair because its goal is to generate in school students a mathematical culture
based on non-competitive problem solving, that includes 100% of the students
and where the students are the center of the activity. We opted for a new kind
of activity in the national academic system, outside the traditional classroom
where students can develop their creativity, their cooperation and their mathematical
thinking, giving more importance to the mathematical meanings than
to the mathematics syntax or algorithmization developed in a traditional activity,
which is often tedious and senseless for most students because it is not
close to their interests, they do not find spaces to make their own contributions
and develop their creativity, and where it is very difficult to generate enough