🌍 International Math Contests
10 contests found
International Mathematical OlympiadThe International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the World Championship Mathematics Competition for High School students and is held annually in a different country. The first IMO was held in 1959 in Romania, with 7 countries participating. It has gradually expanded to over 100 countries from 5 continents. The IMO Board ensures that the competition takes place each year and that each host country observes the regulations and traditions of the IMO.
🌍Grade: 10 - 12
Junior Balkan Mathematical OlympiadThe Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (JBMO) is an international contest for students under the age of 15.5 from Balkan countries.
In recent years the hosts have also invited some non-Balkan guest countries.
🌍Grade: 8 - 9
Balkan Mathematical OlympiadThe Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (BMO) is an international contest of winners of high-school national competitions from Balkan countries.
In recent years the hosts have also invited some non-Balkan guest countries.
🌍Grade: 10 - 12
Asian Pacific Mathematics OlympiadThe Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad (APMO) is a mathematical competition for countries in the Pacific-Rim Region.
The APMO is held annually. Each participating country has a representative in charge of organizing the APMO locally. A central committee selects a paper with 5 questions to be solved in 4 hours, sends marking schemes and determines award winners.
The APMO started in 1989. It has the following aims:
- Discovering, encouraging and challenging mathematically gifted high-school students.
- Fostering friendly international relations and cooperation between students and teachers throughout the region.
- Creating opportunities for the exchange of information on school syllabi and practice.
- Encouraging and supporting the mathematical involvement with Olympiad type activities in the participating countries and other countries of the region.
🌍Grade: 10 - 12
Pan-African Mathematics OlympiadsThe Pan African Mathematics Olympiad (PAMO) is an annual prestigious event of the African Mathematics Union (AMU) organized each year, since 1987, in an African Country where the best pupils in mathematics of secondary education who are less than twenty (20) years old, are invited to compete.
PAMO aims to foster a spirit of excellence and camaraderie among young African mathematicians.
Purpose and Objectives:
Promote Mathematics: To encourage the study and appreciation of mathematics among African youth.
Identify Talent: To identify and nurture mathematical talent across the continent.
International Standards: To provide a platform for students to compete at a high level, comparable to other international mathematics competitions.
Format
Participation: Open to high school students from African countries.
Team Composition: Each participating country team consists of six contestants, three girls and three boys, a team leader, a deputy team leader and observers
Competition Structure: The competition usually spans two days and includes two rounds of challenging mathematical problems that test various areas of mathematics such as algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and number theory.
🌍Grade: 9 - 12
Middle European Mathematical OlympiadThe Middle European Mathematical Olympiad (MEMO) is the continuation of Austrian-Polish Mathematical Competition, held 29 times from 1978 to 2006. Now ten countries participate in the MEMO: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.
Similar to the IMO, each country participates with at most six students and two team leaders. At a meeting of representatives of MEMO countries held in 2006. during the IMO it was pointed out that one of the goals of the new competition was to enable a larger number of students to gain experience in international competitions. Therefore, the teams participating in the MEMO are typically disjoint from the IMO teams. Also, in order for MEMO to help younger students prepare for some future International Mathematical Olympiad, students in their senior year are not eligible to be in the MEMO team.
The most important part of the MEMO are the individual and team competition, each lasting five hours. The problems are of the “olympic” type, typically divided into four areas: algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory. At the individual competition the students solve one problem from each area. The team competition test consists of eight problems, two from each area (although at the first two MEMOs the team competition also had only four problems). In the team competition the students solve the problems together, which gives the competition a very special atmosphere. The team part of the competition existed also at the APMC, but it is otherwise a rarity in mathematical competitions.
🇦🇹🇵🇱🇭🇷🇨🇿🇩🇪🇭🇺🇱🇹🇸🇰🇸🇮🇨🇭Grade: 10 - 12
European Girls’ Mathematical OlympiadThe European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) is the premier European mathematics competition, made exclusively for high school female students who enjoy mathematics beyond the regular school curriculum. Started by the United Kingdom in April 2012, EGMO has grown since then and now includes over fifty countries, welcoming participants from beyond Europe.
EGMO aims to inspire girls to take part in national and international mathematics competitions, providing more opportunities for mathematical development. It serves as a platform to amplify the presence of young female mathematicians on the global stage with the possibility to find associates and make remarkable connections while fostering cultural exchange among teenagers worldwide. It encourages young females to become scientists and boosts the number of girls in IMO teams.
Participation is by invitation only, with each country nominating up to four students. Like the International Mathematical Olympiad, EGMO unfolds over two days, featuring three problems each day. Medals are awarded to about half of the students, with additional recognition for outstanding problem-solving skills.
🌍Grade: 10 - 12
Baltic Way Mathematical ContestsThe Baltic Way team competition is held on the shore of the Baltic Sea every autumn since 1990. The name of the competition comes from the mass demonstration for the freedom of the Baltic States organised on August 23, 1989, when people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stood hand in hand along the road from Tallinn to Vilnius.
The rules of the competition are simple: each country sends a team of 5 high school students, who are expected to solve 20 problems within 4.5 hours. During this time, the team members can and must communicate — otherwise they would not be able to solve such a quantity of problems. Hence, Baltic Way is not only about mathematical knowledge, but also about cooperational skills.
For the first two years, only teams from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania took part in the event, but later all the other countries surrounding the Baltic Sea (and also Iceland) joined in. Thus, the contest is now normally held among 11 teams: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany (represented mainly by Rostock and Hamburg), Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia (represented by St. Petersburg) and Sweden. Sometimes organisers also invite a guest team to take part in the contest. In 2001, there was a guest team from Israel, in 2004 and 2014, from Belarus, in 2005, from Belgium, in 2011, from South Africa, in 2015, from the Netherlands, and in 2021, from Ireland.
🌍Grade: 10 - 12
NábojNáboj is an international mathematical competition designed for teams of five high-school students that represent their schools.
The competition lasts 120 minutes during which the teams are trying to solve as many given problems as possible. At the beginning of the competition each team receives six problems. As soon as the team correctly solves any of the problems, it receives a new one. The solutions of the problems are usually numerical. The team that solves most problems correctly in the given time limit wins.
Teams compete in two categories: Juniors and Seniors. Students participating in Junior category must be in S4 or earlier year (preferably S3 and S4). The Senior category is open to any team consisting of secondary school students (preferably S5 and S6).
Since 2005, Náboj Math has been taking place in multiple countries simultaneously. It gives a unique opportunity for students to compare their abilities and knowledge to their counterparts from other countries. Although the results are evaluated primarily on local level, an international comparison adds an extra motivation and rivalry.
🌍Grade: 9 - 12
Archimedes Math CompetitionArchimedes Math Competition’s mission and vision is to empower and introduce every high school student to Mathematical Olympiads, especially IMO. So that, every student will have a fair chance in taking advantage of participating in Olympiads.
Unfortunately to this date, vast majority of students have been graduating from high schools without having heard about IMO or any other world class prestigious High School Olympiads. Even if they have heard about the Olympiads, they still lack the understanding of how to take part in them.
Indeed IMO is a prestigious Olympiad. It happens once a year and maximum 6 students can participate from each country. So, IMO shows the rankings of top 6 representatives of each country among others.
Many students around the globe dedicate years for preparation and in some cases they will be left unnoticed due to not being able to make it into the top 6 in TSTs. In fact, those unnoticed students might be better than some or most of the actual participants of IMO.
Thus, AMC finds most Mathematical Olympiads in mess and imbalanced, so we need a modern Archimedes who would find real value of every single modern gifted student within their respective regions!
🌍Grade: 5 - 11