Math Contests in Australia 🇦🇺
3 contests found
Australian Mathematics CompetitionFirst run in 1978, the Australian Mathematics Competition is Australia’s longest running, largest and most well-known maths competition for school students.
The AMC contains unique problems designed each year by leading educators and academics to challenge and extend students’ problem-solving skills.
🇦🇺Grade: 3 - 12
Computational and Algorithmic ThinkingThe Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) competition gives students the opportunity to develop their problem-solving skills through algorithmic thinking. The competition incorporates unique ‘three-stage tasks’ that encourage students to develop informal algorithms and apply them to test data of increasing size or complexity.
CAT is suitable for any maths class and requires no programming experience. It can be used to develop students’ interest and potential in computer programming.
The CAT contains unique problems designed each year by leading educators, academics and industry experts to challenge and extend students’ problem-solving skills.
🇦🇺Grade: 5 - 12
The UNSW School Mathematics CompetitionThe UNSW School Mathematics Competition has been run each year since 1962. It is open to participation by secondary school students in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is run in two divisions: Junior, up to and including Year 10, and Senior, Years 11 and 12.
The competition is designed to assess mathematical insight and ingenuity rather than efficiency in tackling routine examples.
The competition is a three-hour open-book exam. Entrants are allowed to take any books and materials, but not computers with Internet connections, into the examination.
Each year, about 700 students participate, 300 in each division, and prizes and/or certificates are awarded to about 60 in each division.
🇦🇺Grade: 9 - 12