SASMO: Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad

SASMO was founded in 2006 and has grown to be one of Asia's largest math competitions. SASMO 2016 attracted over 20,000 participants from 19 nations, up from 155 local participants in 2006. SASMO 2016 drew over 100 schools from Singapore.

SASMO, with the assistance of the Advisory Council, spends numerous hours meticulously preparing contest papers that cover both classroom and Olympiad math. This combined effort enables participants to do better than they would on pure-Olympiad papers, as they are familiar with some questions and can apply their thinking caps to others, so bringing out their inner mathematician.

OBJECTIVES

With realistic and high standards, SASMO contests aim to stretch the untapped thinking potential of the student population, their participation in SASMO will help them improve in school mathematics as well as higher order thinking skills (HOTS).

This competition aims to arouse students’ interest in mathematical problem solving to develop mathematical intuition, reasoning, logical, creative and critical thinking.

FORMAT OF THE CONTEST

SASMO is open to all Primary 2 to 6 and Secondary 1 to 4 students (Grade 2 to 10 students from International schools). The duration of the test is 90 minutes for all grades. Each level has a differentiated paper and contains 25 questions within 2 sections:

Section A: 15 Multiple Choice Questions (2 points for each correct answer; 0 point for each unanswered question; deduct 1 point for each wrong answer)

Section B: 10 Non-routine Questions (4 points for each correct answer; no penalty for wrong answers)

Total: 85 points (to avoid negative scores, each student will begin with 15 points)

AWARDS

• PERFECT SCORE AWARD

• GOLD AWARD

• SILVER AWARD

• BRONZE AWARD

All the participants will receive a Certificate.

The top 40% of the participants will receive an award certificate and a medal (Gold for top 8%, Silver for next 12% and Bronze for next 20%).

Perfect scorers will receive a Perfect Score Award and $100 cash each, up to a maximum of $5000 for all the perfect scorers. In the rare event when there are more than 50 perfect scorers, the $5000 will be divided among all the perfect scorers.

SYLLABUS

Grades 2-4 (Primary 2-4)

Arithmetic and Statistics

Geometry and Mensuration

Solving word problems using model method (or any other non-algebraic methods)

Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and simple cryptarithms)

Grades 5-6 (Primary 5-6)

Arithmetic and Statistics

Geometry and Mensuration

Solving word problems using model method (or any other methods including algebra)

Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and cryptarithms)

Grade 7 (Secondary 1)

Arithmetic and Algebra

Geometry, Graphs and Mensuration

Statistics

Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and cryptarithms)

Grade 8 (Secondary 2)

Arithmetic and Algebra

Geometry, Graphs and Mensuration

Pythagoras’ Theorem

Statistics

Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems and cryptarithms)

Grades 9-10 (Secondary 3-4)

Arithmetic and Algebra

Geometry, Graphs and Mensuration

Pythagoras’ Theorem and Trigonometry

Statistics and Probability

Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems and cryptarithms)

For more information, visit https://sasmo.sg/.