Manitoba Mathematical Contest

MANITOBA MATHEMATICAL CONTEST (MMC)
THE MANITOBA MATHEMATICAL CONTEST FOR GRADE 12 STUDENTS
WRITTEN SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE PASCAL/CAYLEY/FERMAT CONTESTS EACH YEAR

2024 Contest Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2024
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Registration deadline: February 20, 2024
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN (SEE LINK BELOW)

2023 Winners information

MMC HALL OF FAME
(archive of top students and school teams from recent years)

Note to recent district prizewinners: Due to circumstances starting during COVID some district prize cheques for the last few years have been delayed or neglected. We are working to track these down and make good on them. Apologies to those of your students with prizes pending. If DWs have a new address or have not yet gotten your SIN number to us, please email the contest Director, Robert.Craigen@umanitoba.ca (without which we cannot, because of tax law, distribute cash prizes)

2024 MMC REGISTRATION

***LINK TO REGISTRATION FORM***

The MMC is held simultaneously with
the Waterloo Pascal/Cayley/Fermat contests.

To register you will require the registration code,
which is mailed or emailed to contest coordinators at each school.

Contest coordinators still needing the code: contact the registrar, Michelle.Davidson@umanitoba.ca.
Parents and students hoping for this opportunity: talk to your school

Home schoolers see instructions here.

Request listing as mathletics (contest) contact person/contest manager for your school
(to receive regular updates)

Information about other contests may be found at the main MANITOBA MATHLETICS page.
(Note: Dated information on that page is not current.)

RECENT MMC CONTESTS

Solutions available in English only at this time
2003 (E)             2003 Solutions*    2003 (F)*
2004 (E)             2004 Solutions*    2004 (F)*
2005*
2006*
2007 (E)*        2007 Solutions            2007 (F)

2008 (E) 2008 Solutions 2008 (F)

2009 (E)            2009 Solutions            2009 (F)
2010 (E)            2010 Solutions            2010 (F)
2011 (E)            2011 Solutions             2011 (F)
2012 (E)              2012 Solutions          2012 (F)
2013 (E)              2013 Solutions             2013 (F)
2014 (E)              2014 Solutions            2014 (F)
2015 (E)              2015 Solutions            2015 (F)
2016 (E)              2016 Solutions            2016 (F)
2017 (E)              2017 Solutions            2017 (F)
2018 (E)              2018 Solutions            2018 (F)
2019 (E)              2019 Solutions            No French paper in 2019
2020 (E)              2020 Solutions*           2020 (F)
2021 (E)              2021 Solutions            No French paper in 2021
2022 (E)            2022 Solutions*          No French paper in 2022 2023 (E)              2023 Solutions           2023 (F)

*not currently available

NEWS & NOTES:

The MMC is offered to Manitoba schools and we also welcome entries from Saskatchewan or North-Western Ontario (such schools and their students may be publicly ranked in separate Global rankings but are not eligible for cash prizes)
There is no registration fee for schools to participate in the MMC although online registration (see link above) is necessary.
Schools receive a PDF file of uniquely coded individual papers to print for their own students. They must have the capacity to do so. As each paper consists of approximately 26 pages schools entering a large number of students should be aware in advance of the the logistics of a printing job of the consequent size, to be executed on a short timeline (usually around 24 hours) plus any supplies and costs entailed. Prepare accordingly.
The top four (Manitoba) winners and their teachers are fêted at a Contest Dinner compliments of the main prize sponsor, the Manitoba Association of Mathematics Teachers (MAMT) around the beginning of May. Other schools should receive results shortly thereafter.
The University of Manitoba offers a $1000 tuition remission to any of the top four-ranking Manitoba students who subsequently register for studies at UM.
Brandon University offers a $1000 scholarship to the top-ranking student in the MMC who subsequently enrolls there.
In 2019, 2021 and 2022 there were no French papers requested and so a French-language version of the contest was not prepared. We again encourage French-immersion and Francophone schools to register their students to write in their language of instruction although we make them available in the language of your choice (Note: If the only requests for French papers come too close to our deadline it may be difficult to provide a good translation as we cannot complete as many rounds of checking for correctness and equivalence as we like). Please let us know if we can provide your school with any further resources or encouragement to this end; it would be a shame for the French version of this important provincial test to fade from memory and all our Francophone and immersion students lose this opportunity. Anyone wanting to discuss this with us or to help keep it alive please email the Contest Director, R. Craigen.

This page is maintained by Dr. R. Craigen of the University of Manitoba Mathematics Department.
Comments, requests and suggestions welcome.