Real World Math:

• Control disease!

• Protect privacy!

• More effective brain surgery!

• Provide clean water! 

• Organ donation!  

• Tsunami warning systems!

The University of Waterloo Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing recommends that students spend some time preparing for their contests. The best way to improve your problem-solving skills is to practice solving problems. You can find hundreds of examples within the variety of enrichment and practice materials listed below.

Materials Available for all Contests:

• copies of past contests and solutions
• CEMC publications
• material from our Math Circles weekly enrichment activity
• other CEMC web resources

Math Courseware:

Students writing the Euclid Contest and Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest might want to review the important foundational material covered by the lessons and exercises of the Grade 12 open courseware resources.

Other Materials for Specific Contests:

• the Pascal, Cayley and Fermat eWorkshop
• the Euclid eWorkshop
• the Mathematics Resource Manual for the Euclid Contest
• Canadian Computing Competition example programs and useful software links
• sample problems for the Beaver Computing Challenge