pause_circle_outline play_circle_outline

THE WORLD MATHEMATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS ®

(SEAMC and NEAMC)

Participants enage in fun, collaborative assessment-as-learning® cultural experiences all around the world!

The schedule is very busy DOING MATHEMATICS, with a healthy mix of seriousness and laughter, geekiness and play, indoors and out!
Regional Qualifiers are comprised of SIX ROUNDS (3 individual and 3 in teams), with the option to offer EXTRA ROUNDS and activities if they wish.
Participants sometimes think deeply alone, work in teams, be inspired by speakers and create using their imagination!

There are FOUR LEVELS of competition:

LEVEL Primary Secondary Junior Senior
APPROX AGE 9-11 11-13 13-16 16-19
INT. SCHOOL GRADE ~G5 ~G7 ~G9 ~G11
UK SCHOOL YEAR ~Y6 ~Y8 ~Y10 ~Y12
REGIONAL QUALIFIERS Sept - Nov Feb - May Sep - Nov Feb - May
FINALS - - Dec Jun

Containing these SIX ROUNDS, including THREE voluntary rounds for the Host Venue Cup. These are:

Skills categories (Individual) Challenge Collaboration teams Host Venue Cup
Strategy Confidence Lightning Crypto
Creativity Codebreaker Shuttle Inspiration/Innovation
Knowledge Mathematician Pursuit Duel Fast4

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
  • 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 executing a Strategy.
There are rounds that depend upon creativity - developing new and imaginative ideas.

Each Strategy, Creativity and knowledge skill category has one round that is engaged in alone, and the other in a team.

*Three optional rounds can form another Communication category involving teams in a maximum of 3s - because we need to be able to convince others that our beliefs are sound.

Leaderboards will show rankings within each category.

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 incure an additional 10% admin charge for this extra personalisation.
Once registered, more practise material is available to registered student participant accounts.

DISCOVER THE LEARNING CONTENT PLAY SOME ROUNDS

We focus upon 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 elitism nor speed at doing 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 QUALIFIER EXAMPLE SCHEDULE

BECAUSE FORWARD PLANNING IS ALWAYS GOOD FOR THE SOUL

A POSSIBLE REGIONAL QUALIFIER SCHEDULE
  • Hosts choose the dates
  • Hosts choose the (voluntary) Hoist Venue Cup rounds
  • Most rounds last for ~1 hour

If schools wish to run the popular hybrid of online and offline rounds across 2 days, then maybe it could follow:

Online day (1 week earlier)
09:00 Confidence
11:00 FAST4 Duel
12:15 Codebreakers
13:30 Mathematician
Onsite day (in a hall)
09:00 Pursuit
11:00 Shuttle
13:00 Codebreaker Final
15:00 Lightning
18:00 Medal Ceremony



DISCOVER THE LEARNING CONTENT PLAY SOME ROUNDS

JOIN A REGIONAL QUALIFIER NOW

THROUGH YOUR FAVOURITE MATHEMATICS TEACHER IN SCHOOL

Level and Location Host and Detail
Junior in Bangkok

Venue: Newton Sixth Form School, Bangkok & Remote Online 

Region: Thailand

Remote evening 1: Saturday 23rd September 2023

Remote evening 2: Sunday 24th September 2023

In venue Day 3: Saturday 30th September 2023

Participation: Teams of 3, teacher adjudicators are welcome to join the fun

Cost: Baht6000 per team, or individually for Baht2500
Beijing International Schools Mathematics Competition

Venue: Dulwich College Beijing

Region: China

Dates: Friday & Saturday 13th & 14th October 2023

Participation: 9 or 18 students per school (3 or 6 teams) with 1 or 2 staff adjudicators

Cost: RMB11340 per 9 students with 1 staff adjudicator
Junior in Hong Kong

Venue: SAIS HK & Remote Online 

Region: Hong Kong

Remote Day: Saturday 11th November 2023

In school Day: Saturday 18th November 2023

Participation: 9 students (3 teams) and 1 staff adjudicator or 18 students and 2 staff adjudicators, per school

Cost: HKD8700 per set of 9+1
Junior in Singapore

Venue: UWCSEA (Dover) & Remote Online 

Region: Singapore

Remote Day: Saturday 11th November 2023

In school Day: Saturday 25th November 2023

Participation: 9 students (3 teams) and 1 staff adjudicator OR 18 students (6 teams) and 2 staff adjudicators per school

Cost: SGD990 per 9 students and 1 staff adjudicator
Junior Finals in University of Melbourne

Venue: University College, University of Melbourne

Region: Victoria, Australia

Arrive morning of: Sunday 10th December 2023

Depart morning of: Saturday 16th December 2023

Participation: Golden Ticket invite from a Regional Qualifier

Cost: USD2000

CHALLENGE ROUNDS

SOME ROUNDS ARE SUBJECT SPECIFIC SKILLS AND PROCEDURES - KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE

CONFIDENCE (CON)

Demonstrate your individual confidence in traditional problem solving

CODEBREAKERS (COD)

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

MATHEMATICIAN (MAT)

Traditional open-response questions

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

DUEL FAST4 (DUE)

Quick individual 1v1 games to sharpen mental agility

WMC FINALS

FOR GOLDEN TICKET INVITEES


CONGRATULATIONS Golden Ticket holders - this is where you come to find out about the next

World Mathematics Championships® Finals!

NEXT UP: JUNIOR level Sunday 10th - Saturday 16th December 2023

It is an honour to partner up with the University of Melbourne, FORTEENTH best in the world, to offer TWELVE rounds across a whole week within the University College residential setting. What else would you expect if you'd like to be crowned the winner of the World Mathematics Championships®?

Developing leadership skills are very important attributes and so incorporating this into our Finals is a perfect enhancement of the Regional Qualifiers. University College is a fenced compound as part of the Univesity of Melbourne campus. It is a very safe and secure environment; sampling independence and experience of university life is a given. Partipants will stay in their own single room within a hall of residence, and are assigned to a pasoral mentor for the entire experience.

Golden Ticket winners are therefore invited to these finals as individuals. The registration form contains a section to enter the names of friends they know are also going and would like to be in Collaboration Teams with. They need to arrive during the morning of the first day and depart during the morning of the final day with their own travel and medical insurance and tourist visa for Australia. We will organise arrival pick-up from Melbourne Tullamarine airport (NOT Avalon) and also take them back afterwards. As spaces are limited and the Unversity of Melbourne require bookings to be confirmed in advance, all Golden Tickets need to be fully accepted (registration form completed and payment transfered) WITHIN ONE WEEK FROM RECEIVING THE GOLDEN TICKET. The participation fee of only USD2000 each includes airport transfers, accommodation, meals and resources for all rounds and excursions throughout the seven days.

An information session webinar from a previous Junior Final recording, is here.

Some rounds will be the same as were enjoyed in qualifying, many will be similar, and there will also be a few rounds that are new!

Skills categories Challenge
 Collaboration
 Communication
Strategy Confidence Lightning Crypto & Fairground
Creativity Codebreaker Shuttle Inspiration & Datamine
Knowledge Mathematician Pursuit Logic & Proof
The daily schedule will be shown below when it is confirmed.


The most important preparation you could do is having:
  • confidence in articulating conceptual understanding of the mathematics you have experienced so far, verbally as well as in writing.
  • the awareness and skills to manage diverse team dynamics (in stressful situations).
Most rounds are very similar in style as experienced during Regional Qualifiers. As for the extra new rounds:
  • Thinking about how you would approach this problem might prove useful.
  • Similarly, it is wise to engage with data analysis methods.
  • Knowledge of the tools used to articulate logical arguements and make formal mathematical proofs.
And most important for the whole week, remembering to smile!


How to accept your Special Ticket

1. Login and from the dashboard:
       a. Click 'Applied'
       b. Confirm and make payment
2. We look forward to welcoming your child into University College, University of Melbourne on the first morning!

HOST PARTNERS

HELPING TO MAKE THE WORLD ENJOY MATHS THAT LITTLE BIT MORE

2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023

HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

PLEASE SEND US A MESSAGE