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THE WORLD MATHEMATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS ®

(SEAMC and NEAMC)

  • networking collaborative assessment-as-learning®
  • develop skills and resilience in an exciting and engaging way
  • cultural experiences
  • lifelong learning
  • super fun
  • a weeklong residential within a prestigious university!

Each schedule is VERY BUSY DOING MATHEMATICS, with a healthy mix of seriousness and laughter, geekiness and play, indoors and out!

Regional Qualifiers can be personalised, and comprise of at least SIX ROUNDS: 4 individual and 2 in teams of 3.

Participants sometimes think deeply alone, use the internet for clarification, collaborate in teams, be inspired by mentors and create using their imagination!

There are TWO LEVELS of competitive Finals:

LEVEL

TARGET AGE

MAX SCHOOL GRADE/UK YEAR

REGIONAL DATES

FINALS

SENIOR

~16

G12 (Y13)

Feb - May

July

JUNIOR

~14

G10 (Y11)

Sep - Nov

December

and TWO LEVELS of Enrichment - accessible fun for all, anytime:

LEVEL

TARGET AGE

MAX SCHOOL GRADE/UK YEAR

MIDDLE SCHOOL

~12

G9 (Y10)

HIGH SCHOOL

~15

G12 (Y13)

The top SIX ROUNDS are compulsory for Qualifiers, all others optional:

Dynamic

Agility & Spacial skills

Technical

Methodology & Precision

Individual

Challenge

Personal Endeavour

Duel Fast4

Confidence

Codebreaker

Mathematician

Team

Collaborations

Traditional problem solving

Lightning

Pursuit

Interdependence Skills

Crypto

Shuttle

Real-life Creativity

Innovation

Inspiration

THE WMC EXPERIENCE

THE FIVE ASSESSED SKILLS CATEGORIES ARE:

  • Challenge - because we want to be the best that we can be
  • Knowledge - because we need secure foundations to communicate, collaborate, challenge, strategise and create better!
  • Collaboration - because we all need others to help us achieve our dreams
  • Dynamic - because we need to be able to react quickly and think on our feet to make meaningful impact in this world
  • Technical- because we need to have evidenced rigour to ensure we’re correct
  • Strategy - because visionary thinking leads to more profound success
  • Creativity - because we enjoy being humans instead of robots
Individuals focus on the Challenge rounds alone.
Collaboration teams are in a maximum of 3s.
Some rounds are subject specific skills and procedures - knowledge intensive.
Other rounds are focused towards planing and interdependence, executing a Strategy.
There are rounds with real-life foci that depend upon creativity - developing new and imaginative ideas.

Leaderboards will show rankings within each compulsory round.

This unique platform enables participants to network and build lasting friendships and life-long memories - usually the main highlight of their schooling years.

Payment is made directly through the secure online gateway, Stripe. Bank transfer invoices incur an additional 10% admin charge for this extra manual personalisation.
Once registered, more practise material is available to registered student participant accounts.

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We focus event experiences towards FOUR of the UN Sustainable Development Goals:
  • 4 Quality Education
  • 5 Gender Equality
  • 10 Reduced Inequality
  • 12 Responsible consumption and production

We believe summative assessment should be a demonstration of depth-in-learning and be inclusive; not just elitism through speed at performing superficial algorithms of difficult subject content.

If you would like to join our illustrious question writing team, please get in touch to discuss specifics!

A REGIONAL EXAMPLE SCHEDULE

BECAUSE FORWARD PLANNING IS ALWAYS GOOD FOR THE SOUL

  • Mix and match your own experience
  • Each round lasts for ~1 hour
ONLINE + FIXTURE SCHEDULE
Weekly: Confidence Codebreaker Mathematician
followed by
School A home fixture Duel Innovation
Schhol B home fixture Pursuit Crypto
School C home fixture Lightning Celebration
ONLINE + 1-DAY SCHEDULE
Online day
09:00 Confidence
11:30 Codebreaker
13:30 Mathematician

In person day
09:00 Duel
11:00 Pursuit
14:00 Lightning
16:00 Celebration Ceremony

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THROUGH YOUR FAVOURITE MATHEMATICS TEACHER IN SCHOOL

Level and Location Host and Detail
Manila Schools Junior Mathematics Competition 2025

Venue: International School Manila

Region: Philippines

Dates: Online: Anytime within Friday 19th - Thursday 25th September. In person: Saturday 27th September 2025

Participation: Multiple teams of 3 per school

Cost: USD270 per school, max of 2 adjudicators per school

Info: More detail about each round can be found here.
Singapore Schools Junior Mathematics Competition 2025

Venue: UWCSEA East Campus

Region: Singapore

Dates: Online: Anytime within Friday 19th - Thursday 25th September. In person: Saturday 4th October 2025

Participation: Multiple teams of 3 per school

Cost: SGD30 per participant, max of 2 adjudicators per school

Info: More detail about each round can be found here.
Vietnam Schools Junior Mathematics Competition 2025

Venue: The ABC International School

Region: Vietnam

Dates: Online: Anytime within Saturday 13th - Sunday 21th September. In person: Saturday 4th October 2025

Participation: Multiple teams of 3 per school

Cost: TBC, max of 2 adjudicators per school

Info: More detail about each round can be found here.
Beijing Schools Junior Mathematics Competiton 2025

Venue: YCIS Beijing

Region: P R China

Online Dates: Anytime within Saturday 26th September - Sunday 5th October 2025

In Person Dates: Saturday 18th October 2025

Participation: Multiple teams of 3 per school

Cost: SGD450 per school, max of 2 adjudicators per school

Info: More detail about each round can be found here
Hong Kong Schools Junior Mathematics Competition 2025

Venue: Korean International School

Region: Hong Kong

Online Dates: Anytime within Friday 10th September - Sunday 19th October 2025

In Person Dates: Sunday 2th November 2025

Participation: Multiple teams of 3 per school

Cost: HKD2750 per school, max of 2 adjudicators per school

Info: More detail about each round can be found here
Manila Schools Senior Mathematics Competition 2026

Venue: Brent International School Manila

Region: Philippines

Dates: Online: Anytime within Friday 27th February - Thursday 5th March. In person: Saturday 7th March 2026

Participation: Multiple teams of 3 per school

Cost: USD360 per school, max of 2 adjudicators per school

Info: More detail about each round can be found here.
Vietnam Schools Senior Mathematics Competition 2026

Venue: British International School, HCMC

Region: Vietnam

Dates: Online: Anytime within Friday 21st Feb - Friday 6th March. In person: Saturday 7th March 2026

Participation: Multiple teams of 3 per school

Cost: TBC, max of 2 adjudicators per school

Info: More detail about each round can be found here.

WMC JUNIOR FINALS 2025 : FAQS

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Venue : University College, University of Melbourne

Region : Victoria, Australia

Arrive morning of : Sunday 14th December 2025

Depart morning of : Saturday 20th December 2025

Participation  : Gold Ticket invite from a Regional Qualifier

Provision : Tullamarine airport transfers, single room accommodation within University College, 3 buffet meals a day, all activities and excursions. Finalists also need to provide evidence of :
  • Medical insurance (required by every hospital in Australia from foreigners).
  • Tourist visa (provide a scan of passport details and we will provide an invitation letter).
  • Your own flights to and from Tullamarine airport. If parents would like to complete the ‘solo child’ flight forms with the airline, we will provide the necessary details of our mentor who will receive them from airport arrivals, and drop them back at airport departures.
Duty of Care  : We accept full pastoral responsibility for all Finalists throughout the event. We allocate small mentor groups, who have morning and evening check-in meetings, with mentors who also adjudicate (and write questions for) the rounds, as well as lead excursions.

This said, if school staff accompany their students and mentor/adjudicate the event for the week, this is possible and costs SGD2000/teacher. Due to child protection compliance, parents cannot be a part of this week-long event, unless it is for 1-1 supervision of their child due to diagnosed necessary special needs.

Aims and Expectations : The above said, parents are welcome to ‘drop off’ their child to see their bedroom, look round University College (which is a beautiful, secure, independent residential compound) and enjoy buffet lunch with their child. We may also be able to arrange a parental tour of the main University of Melbourne campus. We understand the need for young people to have independence and responsibility for them to grow and flourish into adulthood. This week is designed to empower them through the need to use multiple soft skills at least as much as they need to dig into their analytical thinking resilience.

Schedule  : The specific schedule will be released about a month before the event starts, the last Finals schedule is displayed towards the bottom of this page - in a nutshell, we are busy for 13 hours every day! So after arrival, we ask for your trust that “no news is good news”. Should any emergency happen, once we recognise them to be safe, parents will be the first to know.

Fees : SGD3000 include everything from arrival to Tullamarine airport until departure from Tullamarine airport. If you register and then decide to withdraw, we will do our best to return unspent funds. As a guide:

Before the deadline given in your Gold Ticket email after your Regional: Hopefully 80% refund (Due to 2-way 5% transfer charges + 10% in deposits for resources), depending on the terms of the University contract this year.

After the given deadline  : Hopefully we can provide a 50% refund.

Within a month of the event : Doubtful that any refund will be possible, sorry. To provide such an event at this
scale, all bookings, operational and logistical costs are reserved long in advance and will have already been paid.

CHALLENGE ROUNDS

SOME ROUNDS ARE SUBJECT SPECIFIC SKILLS AND PROCEDURES - KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE

DUEL FAST4 (DUE)

Quick individual 1v1 games to sharpen mental agility

CODEBREAKERS (COD)

Suss the blank terms in each sequence before the countdown timer ends

MATHEMATICIAN (MAT)

Traditional open-response questions

CONFIDENCE (CON)

Demonstrate your individual confidence in traditional problem solving

RECALL (REC)

Combining the traditional Individual rounds: Confidence (multi-choice) and Mathematician (open response)

COLLABORATION ROUNDS

BECAUSE WE ALL NEED OTHERS TO HELP US ACHIEVE OUR DREAMS

LIGHTNING (LIG)

In collaboration teams, race to solve traditional problems - can you reach the final question in time?

SHUTTLE (SHU)

Individuals shuttle their answer across the Communication team - make sure you're the strongest link

PURSUIT (PUR)

In Collaboration teams, 60 mins, 16 problems, 1 submission, 0 points if it is incorrect.

COMMUNICATION ROUNDS

BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO CONVINCE OTHERS THAT OUR BELIEFS ARE SOUND

INNOVATION (INN)

In Communication teams, wisely craft and create problems for peers to solve

INSPIRATION (INS)

In Communication teams, discover and present the historical development of an important concept

CRYPTO (CRY)

In Communication teams, decrypt as many cipher texts as you can, and then encrypt your response

PURE RIGOUR COMMUNICATION ROUNDS

BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO CONVINCE OTHERS THAT OUR BELIEFS ARE SOUND

CRYPTO (CRY)

In Communication teams, decrypt as many cipher texts as you can, and then encrypt your response

LOGIC (LOG)

Focus on clarity of argument and deduction through a scaffolded task

PROOF (PRO)

Present complete, rigorous written mathematical arguments on a whiteboard in a University classroom.

APPLICATION CUP COOPERATION ROUNDS

BECAUSE USING DATA FROM REAL LIFE HELPS THE WORLD BECOME A BETTER PLACE

FAIRGROUND (FAI)

Demonstrate understanding of expectation and variance, to entice customers whilst also winning in the long term!

DATAMINE (DAT)

Articulate thinking and rationale for choices from a scaffolded task and datasheet

DEBATE (DEB/OPN)

Present thinking visually, and then verbally to convince others to agree with you.

HOST PARTNERS

HELPING TO MAKE THE WORLD ENJOY MATHS THAT LITTLE BIT MORE

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