Cayley, Hamilton and Maclaurin Mathematical Olympiads
As follow-on Rounds to the Intermediate Maths Challenge, the Cayley, Hamilton and Maclaurin Maths Olympiads are 2 hour Challenges consisting of six Olympiad style problems.
Entry to the Intermediate Olympiads is by invitation based on a qualifying IMC score, or by discretionary entry. Around 1,800 students qualify from the IMC each year.
Time limit
2 hours
Price
£25 per discretionary
entry, free entry via qualification.
Sold individually
Age group
Cayley Maths Olympiad:
England, Wales and Overseas: Year 9 and below
Scotland: S2 or below
Northern Ireland: Year 10 or below
Hamilton Maths Olympiad:
England, Wales and Overseas: Year 10
Scotland: S3
Northern Ireland: Year 11
Maclaurin Maths Olympiad:
England, Wales and Overseas: Year 11
Scotland: S4
Northern Ireland: Year 12
Challenge Date
Thursday 21st March 2024
How it works
1
Register your school
2
Purchase entries
3
Sit challenge
4
Receive results
Preparing for the challenge
We are delighted to be working with Dr Frost Maths to help teachers use UKMT past papers and problems in the classroom.
You can utilise UKMT past papers, solutions and investigations as preparation materials for your students. They are a great resource containing high-quality problems from previous years designed to encourage mathematical thinking.
Instructions
The use of blank paper for rough working is allowed; squared paper, calculators and measuring instruments are forbidden.
Do not hand in rough work
Your answers should be fully simplified, and exact. They may contain symbols such as π, fractions, or square roots, if appropriate, but not decimal approximations.
You should give full written solutions, including mathematical reasons as to why your method is correct. Just stating an answer, even a correct one, will earn you very few marks; also, incomplete or poorly presented solutions will not receive full marks.
To accommodate candidates in other time zones, please do not discuss any aspect of the paper on the internet until 8am GMT on Saturday 23 March. Candidates in time zones more than 3 hours ahead of GMT must sit the paper on Friday 22 March (as defined locally).
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