* Descartes (5th year high school students) * Euclid (4th year high school students) * Fermat (3rd year high school students) * Cayley (second year high school students) * Pascal (first year high school students) * Gauss (8th grade students) |
* Descartes (13th grade students) * Euclid (12th grade students) * Fermat (11th grade students) * Cayley (10th grade students) * Pascal (9th grade students) * Gauss (7th and 8th grade students) Denmark* Georg Mohr (Contest for Danish highschool student, see http://www.imf.au.dk/georg-mohr/hvemvargm.html for more details [note: in Danish]) |
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 The American Mathematics Competitions, which include the following:
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) and The Mandelbrot Competition for high schoolers, and the Putnam Competition for undergraduates.