The Centre for Education in Mathematics and
Computing (CEMC) is Canada's largest and most
recognized outreach organization for promoting
and creating activities and materials in mathematics
and computer science housed within the Faculty
of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.
It was founded in 1995 with origins dating
back to the 1960s.
The CEMC administers the Canadian Mathematics
Competitions (CMC), written annually by over
200,000 students from around the world, as
well as contests in computer science.
The contests are listed by grade below.
Grade 7 - Gauss 7
Grade 8 - Gauss 8
Grade 9 - Pascal and Fryer
Grade 10 - Cayley and Galois
Grade 11 - Fermat and Hypatia
Grade 12 - Euclid
Grade 9 and 10 - Canadian Intermediate Mathematics
Contest
Grade 11 and 12 - Canadian Senior Mathematics
Contest
All grades - Canadian Computing Competition
(CCC)
Grade 9 and 10 - the Beaver (Bebras) Computing
Challenge for Grade 9 and 10 studentsThe CEMC
also holds other activities to enrich mathematics
in high school communities, such as math circles
and teacher education programs.
Several publications include Problems Problems
Problems (English and French), Is this going
to be on the Math test?, Problems and How
to Solve Them, Shaking Hands in Corner Brook
(and other Math problems), Mathematics Resource
Manual for High School Students and Undergraduate
Studies, Invitations to Mathematics, and Problems
from the Inv.
Math Challenge with Hints and Solutions.
== See also ==
University of Waterloo
