Our Competitions and Programs
The Australian Maths Trust runs a range of unique competitions and programs to inspire, extend, and recognise mathematical understanding for primary and secondary students. Each year we run six unique competition events and two long form in-school programs for hundreds of thousands primary and secondary students in Australia and around the world.
Our flagship competition, the Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC), has been delivered in Australian and international schools since 1978, engaging generations of young people in the joy of maths and problem solving.
Our Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) competition focusses on the development of problem-solving skills through algorithmic thinking.
We also run longer, more challenging competitions for talented students. The Australian Informatics Olympiad (AIO) and the Australian Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad (AIMO) are 3 and 4 hours respectively and results are used to identify students to be invited to participate in the AMT’s high-performance programs.
Maths Challenge and Maths Enrichment are problem-solving programs delivered by teachers over a period of weeks to engage and extend students’ mathematical understanding.
All the problems in our competitions and programs are uniquely crafted each year by our expert mathematicians and maths teachers to challenge and engage your students.
The AMT also delivers world-renowned international mathematics and computing competitions including Bebras, the Coding Challenge (replacing OUCC) and Kangourou san Frontiers, a French maths competition inspired by our very own AMC, that now reaches more than six million young people each year.
Tu 24 – Th 26 March 2026
A 60 to 75 minute online maths competition for Years 3 to 12. Inspired by the AMC, KSF is now the largest maths competition in the world.
Mo 9 February – Su 8 MArch 2026
A fun and engaging computational thinking challenge for students Year 3 to 12. An international challenge that involves over 2.9 million students from over 60 countries.
Tu 19 – Th 21 May 2026
A 60 minute problem-solving competition for Years 5 to 12, designed to encourage curiosity and multiple modes of thinking.
TBA
A 45 minute online programming competition to develop computational thinking skills for Years 5 to 12.
tu 4 – th 6 August 2026
A 60 to 75 minute maths competition for Years 3 to 12. Australia’s longest running, largest and most well known maths competition.
Mo 2 March – Fr 26 June 2026
A maths extension program for Years 3 to 10, delivered by teachers over 3 to 4 weeks in a classroom setting.
Mo 30 March – Fr 16 October 2026
A maths extension program suitable for Years 4 to 10, delivered over 12 to 16 weeks with extension material additional to the curriculum.
TH 27 August 2026
A 3 hour online programming competition suitable for students Year 7 to 12 with coding skills.
th 10 September 2026
A 4 hour maths competition to recognise and stretch talented students in Years 7 to 10 with complex mathematical problem solving.
More Information
AMT’s open competitions and programs are available to all primary and secondary school students in Australia and New Zealand. Most are also available internationally.
To register your students, you must be a teacher or staff member of a registered school, home school or coaching clinic.
Home schools, coaching clinics and international schools should contact competitions@amt.edu.au to register with us.
Students wanting to try our unique maths content can go to our free Problemo Student Portal or purchase past papers from our online shop.
* Student answer sheets received by AMT after the late submission deadline will be processed after Friday 13 November
All prices are in Australian dollars and are inclusive of Australian GST.
Individual pricing
Bundle pricing – 2 competitions
Bundle pricing – 3 competitions
Bundle pricing – 4 competitions
Payment options
Teachers can pay at the time of ordering via credit card or we can send an invoice to your school. Invoice terms are 30 days.
Make sure you provide the correct email details for the billing contact.
To place an order and register your students, you will need to log into the teacher administration portal.
If you are a new customer you will first need to register. We will verify your credentials and approve your account.
Only teachers and staff at a verified school, home school or coaching clinic can register students in our competitions.
Check to see if your question has already been answered. We’ve pulled together helpful information and links from our most frequently asked questions. If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for, you can always send us a message.
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Can I get a copy of my child’s certificate from a past competition?
We are able to accommodate requests from parents and students to provide digital copies of historical certificates from past competitions from 2020 up to the previous school year.
To request a historical certificate, please contact us with the name and year of the competition, the name of the student, year level, school and jurisdiction.
While earlier certificate records are limited, prize and award winners were previously listed in annual statistics books published by the AMT. If you participated prior to 2015 we may be able to access an excerpt that acknowledges your participation and result.
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How can my child register for a competition or program?
All our competitions are delivered by schools. Only teachers at schools, home schools and tutoring centres can register students. Students cannot register individually.
We recommend you speak to your school to find out if they plan to run the competition or program, or if they would be willing to do so. We find a lot of schools are quite receptive to this request from parents.
We currently allow students to sit our competitions at private tutoring centres or coaching clinics, many of which advertise our competitions on their website.
If you are interested in trying our competition material, past papers can be accessed from our online shop. Your child may also like to try the sandpit and discovery series of maths and algorithmic problems on the free student portal of our Problemo platform.
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My child has just participated in an AMT competition. Can you send me their results and certificate?
After awarding is completed, student results and certificates are provided by us directly to registered schools and centres.
We are not able to reissue certificates directly to parents or students for the current year without verification from the school. If you have not yet received your child’s results, we suggest you contact your school.
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My child performed well at the AMC. Why didn’t they get invited to the award ceremony?
Toward the end of the year, the AMT conducts award events in each Australian jurisdiction for high-performing students.
From 2025, the AMT has extended the invitation to a broader range of students, including top performers not just in the Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC), but in three of our other key competitions – the Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) competition, the Australian Informatics Olympiad (AIO) and the Australian Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO).
The event really reflects the performance of students across a wide range of AMT’s problem-solving competitions in both mathematics and algorithmics.
The invitation list is determined to achieve a fair distribution across year levels, recognising the highest performers across the four competitions (AMC, CAT, AIO, and AIMO). The majority of the invitations are allocated to AMC participants, given the large number of students participating.
Invitations are limited to a small selection of students across the four competitions. This means that in the larger jurisdictions, receiving a Prize award in the AMC does not guarantee an invitation to the AMT awards event. A student may be invited because they were a high performer for their year level, even if their overall score or award was lower than students in other year levels who did not receive an invitation.
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My child’s school is not offering the competition or program we are interested in. How can they participate?
We recommend you speak to your school to find out if they plan to run the competition or program, or if they would be willing to do so. We find that a lot of schools are quite receptive to this request from parents.
The AMT has, from time to time, and depending on the location, made arrangements for students to sit our competitions independently, where this opportunity is not provided at their school.
This involves unaffiliated students being supervised face-to-face at another school or suitable location, with support from AMT volunteers. Only students from schools that are not sitting the competition are eligible for the unaffiliated program.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact us via our contact form.
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We are a home school. How do we register for competitions or programs?
Students at homeschools can participate in AMT competitions and programs.
To register a homeschool, please complete the form on our website and provide us with a homeschool registration certificate letter from the education department in your jurisdiction.
Once we have verified your school and set up your school’s account in our system, you can register as a user in the AMT administration portal.
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We have received my child’s performance certificate. Can you explain the information on the back?
All student participating in AMT competitions and programs receive a digital certificate, which is issued to their school. For most competitions, a hard copy certificate is also provided.
Students participating in our two flagship competitions, CAT and AMC, receive hard copy performance certificates which include the student’s award on the front, and a result report on the back.
The result report includes your child’s:
- total score
- a breakdown of scores across the three parts of the paper
- percentile ranking for their year level (and region for A
aMC) - responses to each question and the correct responses
- result summary in the different areas of mathematics
- performance against the average for the region for each topic area.
Awarding criteria for AMC and CAT are outlined on our website.
Please note that:
- For CAT, awards are determined by comparing a student’s results with other students in the same year level.
- For AMC, awards are determined by comparing a student’s results with other students in the same year level and region (Australian state or territory, or country).
- Percentile ranks are approximate and may vary according to the number of students participating and the score distribution.
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