South East Asian Mathematics Competition


The South East Asian Mathematics Competition is an annual three-day non-profit mathematics competition for Southeast Asian students at different grade levels. It is a qualifying competition for invitation to the World Mathematics Championships.
Teams have participated from China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Nepal.
Host venue locations of the SEAMC changes annually. An online version was held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eligibility

  • The Senior Competition is open to all students in Grade 12 or younger.
  • The Junior Competition is open to all students in Grade 9 or younger.
  • The Secondary Competition is open to all students in Grade 7 or younger during the month of the event and
  • Primary level for Grade 5 or younger.

The competition

History

SEAMC is a mathematics collaboration experience for school students located in South or North East Asia to come together for 2-3 days.
SEAMC was conceived of by Steve Warry, who taught at Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur. He organised SEAMC in March 2001. He died one week prior to the first competition. Teams competed for the Warry Cup, which is named in Steve's honour.
From 2014, the NEAMC sister event has been organised for students in Northeast Asia. The organizers enlisted the Nanjing International School to host it initially in February 2014 with the help of Malcolm Coad.
In 2017, the SNEAMC family of events became the World Mathematics Championships.

Format

Each school enters teams of 3 students each. The competition has nine rounds.
All WMC qualifying competitions have:
  • 3 days of engagement
  • 9 equally weighted rounds
  • 6 skills categories for prizes
  • The best sum ranking across all 9 rounds win
School teams engage within the Communication skills rounds.
The Collaboration skills rounds are in buddy teams of three.
The Challenge are skills rounds undertaken as individuals.
Three skills rounds are knowledge based,
three are strategy focused and three depend upon creativity.
So each strategy, creative and knowledge skill category is engaged in alone, in school teams and in buddy teams.
Past questions can be found around the web.
In many SEAMC competitions, there are initial icebreaker events.

Prizes

  • All participants receive a transcript of relative attainment in each of the 9 rounds.
  • The highest ranked individuals in each category receive medals.
  • The highest ranked individuals across all 9 rounds receive medals.
  • The best ranked school team across all 9 rounds receive a respectively named Cup.
The better ranked teams across all of the competition venues that year are invited to the ultimate World Mathematics Championships showdown, hosted by Trinity College, University of Melbourne in the following July each year.

Results

Past team winners

Source:

World Mathematics Championship June 2018 Results

Source:
Senior Level
  • Winner : Julian Yu
  • Runner Up : Yan Pui Matthew Ling
  • Runner Up : Wye Yew Ho
  • Runner Up : Kevin Xin
  • Runner Up : Linda Wang
Junior Level
  • Winner : Seung Jae Yang
  • Runner Up : Arunav Maheshwari
  • Runner Up : Jangju Lee
  • Runner Up : Ryusuke Suehiro
  • Runner Up : Ravi Bahukhandi
  • Runner Up : Soumyaditya Choudhuri
  • Runner Up : Tanai Chotanaphuti

World Mathematics Championship December 2018 Results

Source:
  • Winner : Palis Pisuttisarun
  • Runner Up : Ho Wang Tang
  • Runner Up : Byung Hoo Park
  • Runner Up : Rocco Jiang

Past individual winners

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