A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

Eleven sixth-grade students from South Tahoe Middle School competed this year in the Math Olympiads, a national mathematics competition. Each month for the past five months students at middle schools ...

SINGAPORE - A "Primary 5" mathematics question that went viral on Facebook and had many people cracking their heads is in fact a question from a mathematics competition for Secondary 3 students. It ...

After the 20th Asia-Pacific Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools (APMOPS) finished on April 20 in Vietnam, some students and parents said that the competition’s questions appeared to be published ...

Frank Morgan of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., recently illustrated such difficulties when he invited an audience of mathematicians, students, and others to vote on which one of a given pair ...

About 200 fifth grade students from 50 schools across Louisiana competed for math supremacy Nov. 2 at the 2019 Louisiana Elementary Math Olympiad held at Kenilworth Science and Technology School in ...

The 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, begins today. It may go down in history for at least two reasons: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it’s the first time the event has been held ...

DURBAN: UKZN student Aaron Naidu, who took first place in the South African Tertiary Mathematics Olympiad, said the secret was to understand mathematical concepts rather than just memorising formulae ...