SIMOC - The fun competition to gain your knowledge!
Dates: 5-8 July 2025
Closing date of registering: 1 May, 2025
SIMOC consists of three categories (For NZ Years 2 to 13):
Math Olympiad Contest (Individual)
MATH OLYMPIAD CONTEST is an individual online test.
The contest consists of 11 differentiated levels: Grades 1 to 11/12 (equivalent to NZ Year 2 to 12/13)
The duration of the contest is 90 minutes, and every paper consists of 25 questions.
The students start with 15 bonus points and the Perfect Score = 85 points.
Forming teams
After the individual Math Olympiad round, all students will be divided into 4 different divisions, according to their grade (Year level), to take part in Maths Warriors & Maths Master Mind.
At SIMOC 2025, the students will be grouped into a team of 5 and placed into their division by SIMOC organizers.
Each team will be comprised of a member from a different country and as much as possible a different grade within the same division.
Each student will join 4 partners from different grades and countries to compete in one of 4 divisions.
Lower Primary Division(NZ Year 2-4), Upper Primary Division (NZ Year 5-7),
Lower Secondary Division(NZ Year 8-9), Upper Secondary Division (NZ Year 10-13)
Maths Warriors
(Team)
What is Maths Warriors?
Math Warriors is a game that tests student’s ability to do mental sums as well as strategic thinking.
There is also an element of luck involved which makes the game even more exciting.
How to play Maths Warriors?
This competition will encourage pupils to play math more often.
It is an excellent opportunity for them to improve their mental math as well as increase their skills in fractions, percentages, probability and definitely strategy.
Competition Rules
Each player must have one of each of the following dice:
Total competition time is 90 minutes.
Math Warriors game rule applies in addition to the rules below.
For the team round, each team of 5 competes against an opposing team at each table. They play the best of 3 games to decide the winning team. For each game, points are earned as follows for each game:
During each match, contestants must state the operation(s) and attack (Strength or Mind) that they are using to capture their opponent’s die. For any attacking team/player who does not do so, his opponent can raise his hands to call a Judge to ensure compliance and the judge could disqualify the offending team.
Once the die/dice used in the attack, the player/team must re-roll their dice. If any player’s die/dice is accidentally moved, and both players can agree to the numbers on the die/dice previously, putting them back in the proper number is allowed. If there is any disagreement, then the die/dice affected should be re-rolled. In case of further disagreements, raise your hands to call a Judge in to ensure compliance and the judge could disqualify the offending team.
If any team does not make an attack within 15 secs, the opponent team can call for a Judge to ensure compliance and the judge could disqualify the offending team.
At the end of each game, the Event Director will ask the winners to get a stamp and the other team will get a cross mark on their score cards. At the end of each round (3 games), every team will move one position clockwise, so there is a rotation of teams.
At the end of the third Maths Warriors team round, all contestants from the same team must submit their score sheet to the section chief for tabulation of results.
The Maximum team score for Maths Warriors = 9 points. Minimum team score = 0 point
Math Warriors Challenge (AES) tutorial video
Click the link or the image below to watch the video for how to play Maths Warriors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtxP1o-moA8
Math Warriors Challenge (AES) sample
Math Master Mind (MMM)
(Team Round)
COMPETITION RULE
Lower Primary Division
(NZ Y2-4)
Students in this division
do not need to participate in this round
Upper Primary Division
(NZ Y5-7)
Each team member must solve three questions Independently.
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Lower Secondary Division
(NZ Y8-9)
Each team member must solve five questions independently
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Upper Secondary Division
(NZ Y10-13)
Each team member must solve five questions independently
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The score of each individual member will contribute to the team’s total score 10 Points for each correct answer, No penalty for wrong answers.
1. The invigilator will provide each team member with the MMM contest booklet and AES.
2. Each team member must enter the mathematical statements into the AES.
3. The duration of the competition is 45 minutes.
4. The team is given 15 minutes to collaborate and learn how to solve 2 tasks together.
MATH MASTER MIND CHALLENGE (AES) SAMPLE
Math Master Mind (MMM)
Each question will present five numbers: one in the centre and four at the four corners,
as shown in the example below
The team will have to use the surrounding four numbers and the four operations (+, -, x, ÷) to form an equation equating to the middle number. For example, the following equation can be from the question in the above example:
(5+3)x2 =16
or
(5+3)+4x2 = 16
or
(5-3)x4x2 = 16
Instructional video for Math Master Mind: https://youtu.be/CL9wzCJxgCA
Itinerary
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