The Euclid Mathematics Contest is an opportunity for students to have fun and to develop their mathematical problem solving ability.
Audience
Students in their final year of secondary school and motivated students in lower grades.
Date
Occurs in April (date to be announced)
Format
- 10 questions; some answer only and some full solution
- no multiple choice questions
- marks for full solution questions assigned for form and style of presentation
- 2.5 hours
- 100 total marks
- non-programmable calculators permitted provided they are without graphical displays
Mathematical Content
Most of the problems will be based on the mathematics curriculum up
to and including the final year of secondary school. The paper may
include questions based on the topic listed below:
• Euclidean and analytic geometry
• Trigonometry, including functions, graphs, identities, sine and
cosine laws
• Exponential and logarithmic functions
• Functional notation
• Systems of equations
• Polynomials, including relationships involving the roots of
quadratic and cubic equations, the remainder theorem
• Sequences and series
• Simple counting problems
• Properties of numbers
Past contests and solutions can be found at
Euclid eWorkshops can be found at