{"id":274,"date":"2011-06-07T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.155.6.59\/math\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T08:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:05:47","slug":"mathematics-contests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/mathematics-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Abel\/Mirzakhani\/Gauss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year in May approximately 1200\u00a0Burnaby elementary students in grade 7 (or lower) enter the national Grade 7 Gauss mathematics contest created by the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time,\u00a0 Burnaby students in grade 6 (or lower) participate in the Mirzakhani Mathematics Contest and those in grade 5 (or lower) participate in the Abel Mathematics Contest, both created by the Burnaby School District.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1683\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2020\/04\/mirzakhani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1683 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2020\/04\/mirzakhani-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2020\/04\/mirzakhani-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2020\/04\/mirzakhani.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryam Mirzakhani won the Field&#8217;s medal in 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Gauss is a paper copy test delivered to the schools**UNFORTUNATELY, THE GAUSS IS CANCELLED IN 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Abel and Mirzakhani **WILL BE RUN ON-LINE IN 2020 IN THE WEEK OF MAY 18. DETAILS FORTHCOMING FROM GR 5 and 6 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>All 3 tests are marked by the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Past\u00a0Abel and Gauss contests\u00a0are available at the following pages:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/contests\/mathematics-contests\/past-abel-contests\/\">Mirzakhani<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 16pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/mathematics-contests\/past-abel-contests\/\">Abel<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/mathematics-contests\/past-gauss-contests\/\">Gauss<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For both contests, students may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.<\/p>\n<p>Calculators are allowed, with the following restriction: students\u00a0may not use a device that has internet access, that can communicate with other devices, or that contains previously stored information. For example, students\u00a0may not use a smartphone or a tablet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\">Abel: \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a01 hour time limit<\/li>\n<li>25 multiple-choice questions (each with 4\u00a0possible answers marked A, B, C or D but only one of these is correct)<\/li>\n<li>Scoring: Each question is worth one mark. \u00a0There is no penalty for an incorrect answer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\">Mirzakhani: \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a01 hour time limit<\/li>\n<li>25 multiple-choice questions (each with 4\u00a0possible answers marked A, B, C or D but only one of these is correct)<\/li>\n<li>Scoring: Each question is worth one mark. \u00a0There is no penalty for an incorrect answer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\">Gauss: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 hour time limit<\/li>\n<li>25\u00a0multiple-choice questions (each with 5\u00a0possible answers marked A, B, C, D, and E but only one of these is correct)<\/li>\n<li>Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 5 marks \u00a0in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C. \u00a0There is no penalty for an incorrect answer. Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions. \u00a0Highest possible score is 150 marks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year in May approximately 1200\u00a0Burnaby elementary students in grade 7 (or lower) enter the national Grade 7 Gauss mathematics contest created by the University of Waterloo. At the same time,\u00a0 Burnaby students in grade 6 (or lower) participate in the Mirzakhani Mathematics Contest and those in grade 5 (or lower) participate in the Abel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/mathematics-contests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abel\/Mirzakhani\/Gauss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7627,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}