International Youth Math Challenge 2023

The International Youth Math Challenge is one of the biggest online math competition for students from all around the world: Unleash your creativity, knowledge, and math skills to win awards and cash prizes worth over 700 USD - take this unique opportunity and participate today!

The International Youth Math Challenge is an international mathematics competition that enables students from all countries to prove their math skills and to unleash their creativity.

(Qualification Round) The qualification round 2023 consists of five math problems. In order to qualify for the pre-final round, you need to solve at least three (under 18) to four (over 18) of the problems correctly. You can submit your solutions online until 17. September 2023. All participants receive certificates.

(Pre-Final Round) Successful participants can register for the pre-final round in October. You have four days to solve 10 problems of the pre-final round. The registration costs are 8 EUR to make this competition possible: Learn More

(Final Round) Successful finalists can participate in the final round: You will take an online exam supervised by your teacher. The winners receive certificates and cash prizes worth over 700 USD.

• Table of Content
• About International Youth Math Challenge
• IYMC Math Challenge
• Aim and Benefits of IYMC Math Challenge
• Requirements for IYMC Math Challenge Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About International Youth Math Challenge

The International Youth Math Challenge is an international mathematics competition that enables students from all countries to prove their math skills and to unleash their creativity: "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe." - Galileo Indeed, mathematics is essential for the understanding of the world, scientific achievements, and progress, and for engineering and prosperity in our society. There is no doubt that math education is crucial for students of all ages around the world. IYMC aims to establish a global competition that is accessible to all studen...&... continue reading

IYMC Math Challenge

Aim and Benefits of IYMC Math Challenge

IYMC gives you the unique opportunity to unleash your math skills and to apply them to challenging problems. Participants can receive certificates, awards, cash prizes, and global recognition.

Benefits:
All participants receive participation certificates.

The best students receive the

1. prize, 150 USD

2. prize, 100 USD

3. prize,  50 USD .

There are also special national awards:

 All Prizes and Awards

 Global Network
A successful participation allows you to join the IYMC network: You will get the rare chance to connect and exchange with outstanding, similar-minded, and inspiring students worldwide.

 Become Ambassador
Winners and motivated students are encouraged to become official IYMC ambassadors with the aim to inspire students and to encourage them to engage in math and to participate in IYMC: Learn More

Requirements for IYMC Math Challenge Qualification

You find the IYMC qualification round 2023 below:

To qualify for the pre-final round you have to solve at least three (under 18 years) to four (over 18 years) of the five problems correctly. The math problems vary in topic, difficulty, and subject. The problems range from geometry to number theory to make sure that everyone finds interesting problems to work out! This competition will sharpen your mind and prove your math skills!

To solve the problems you should be smart, open-minded, and creative. You should have a working internet connection to submit your solution online.

 For Teachers and Schools
Teachers, parents, and schools are invited to share this opportunity with their students and youths to make talented students in particular benefit from IYMC. We provide materials, flyers, and posters for schools and teachers and we will support you with any issue. We also award special awards for teachers and schools. More details: here

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Please submit your solution to the qualification round (here) via the official submission form. Pay attention to the following aspects:

• Clearly mark your final solutions (e.g. underlining, red color, box).
• The solution file may be typed digitally or it may be a clear picture of your handwritten notes. Digitally typed solutions receive a special honorary note on the certificates!
• You can upload one single file! If you have multiple pictures, please compress them into one single file (e.g. you can use ImgToPDF).
• You can upload PDF and image (jpg, jpeg, png) files. We do not accept any other formats (e.g. ZIP or Word files)! You can use this tool to convert your file into PDF: PDF-Converter
• The file size has to be below 10 MB otherwise it will be rejected.
• Important: Make sure that you write your name and birth correctly. It will be used for all certificates!

After you have submitted your solution via the submission form, you can log into your status page (here). This status page allows you to ...

• check your status and to check your uploaded solutions.
• view your results and performance reports of each round.
• download/access all your certificates.
• upload solutions for the pre-final round.
• view your personal information and more.

Important Note: Emails do not always arrive properly (e.g. spam folder). Always check your status page in all rounds. We will post your results, certificates, and important information via your status page!

For more details visit: IYMC website.q