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List of mathematics competitions

List of English Competitions

International Mathematics Competitions

• IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad) -- worldwide
• IMC (SEAMEO Mathematics Olympiad) -- South-East Asia
• APMO (Asian-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad) -- Pacific rim
• OIM (Olimpíadas Iberoamericanas de Matemática) -- Spain, Portugal and Latin America
• Olimpiada Matematica de Centroamérica y del Caribe -- Central America and the Caribbean
• Olimpiada Matematica de Paises del Cono Sur -- 8 countries from South America
• Balkan Mathematical Olympiad -- Balkan area
• William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition -- USA and Canada (http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html )

National Mathematics Competitions

Argentina

• OMA (Olimpíada Matemática Argentina)

Australia

• AMC (Georg Mohr (Contest for Danish highschool students, see http://www.imf.au.dk/georg-mohr/hvemvargm.html for more details [note: in Danish])

Germany

• DeMO (Deutsche Mathematik-Olympiade)

Hungary

• Kalmár László Országos Matematika Verseny (3rd to 8th grade students)
• Kömal (a year-long contest, each month you have to submit solutions to some problems, 9th-12th grade, Homepage in English: http://www.komal.hu/info/bemutatkozas.e.shtml )
• ADMV (Arany Dániel Matematika Verseny, 9th and 10th grade students)
• OKTV (Országos Középiskolai Tanulmányi Verseny, 11th and 12th grade)
• Kürschák József (first year university students or below)

Netherlands

• NWO (Nederlandse Wiskunde Olympiade)

Norway

• Niels Henrik Abels matematikk-konkurranse (Norwegian Mathematical Olympiad, website available both in Norwegian and English at http://www.math.uio.no/abelkonkurransen/ )

Philippines

• Philippine Mathematics Olympiad

Sweden

• Skolornas matematiktävling (see http://www.math.uu.se/~dag/skolornas.html or http://www.math.chalmers.se/~sam/problemet/bok.html for older problems)
• Högstadiets matematiktävling (http://www.matematiktavling.org/hmt/, open for students in grades 7 through 9)

USA

Middle School

• MathCounts

High School

The United States is home to many regional and national math contests for high school students. The largest and most prestigious are those run by the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC), which include the following:

• American Mathematics Contest 8 (AMC->8) (formerly AJHSME - American Junior High School Mathematics Examination)
• American Mathematics Contest 10/12 (AMC->10 and AMC->12) (formerly AHSME - American High School Mathematics Examination)
• American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME)
• United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO)

The AMC 8, AMC 10, and AMC 12 are open to students in or below grades 8, 10, and 12, respectively, and collectively receive more than 400,000 participants each year. The highest scorers on the AMC 10 and AMC 12 are invited to take the AIME, and the highest scorers on the AIME are invited to take the USAMO. The representatives of the United States in the IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad) are selected from the USAMO winners.

Other American math contests include USAMTS (United States of America Mathematical Talent Search), the team-based competition ARML (American Regions Math League National Competition), the team-based competition that spawned ARML, NYSML (New York State Mathematics League) and The Mandelbrot Competition for high schoolers, and the Putnam Competition for undergraduates (the Putnam is also open to Canadian undergraduates).

See also

Soviet Student Olympiads