About SASMO

SASMO is organised by SIMCC and supported by non-profit foundations Singapore Scholastic Trust and SASMO Advisory Council (SAC). Created in 2006, SASMO is one of largest math contests in Asia. It has expanded from 155 local participants in 2006 to more than 20 000 participants from 19 countries in SASMO 2016. More than 100 schools from Singapore took part in SASMO 2016.

The SASMO Team with the support of Advisory Council spend countless hours carefully developing contest papers which will touch on both school and Olympiad maths. This combined effort allow participants to do better compared to pure-Olympiad papers, since they are familiar with some questions and are able to put on their thinking caps for others, bringing out the inner mathematician in them.

With realistic and high standards, SASMO contests aim to stretch the untapped thinking potential of the student population, their participation in SASMO will help them improve in school mathematics as well as higher order thinking skills.

FORMAT OF THE CONTEST

SASMO is open to all Grades 2 to 10 students. Each grade has a differentiated paper and contains 25 questions within 2 sections:

Section A:  15 Multiple Choice Questions (2 points for each correct answer; 0 point for each unanswered question; deduct 1 point for each wrong answer)

Section B:  10 Non-routine Questions (4 points for each correct answer; no penalty for wrong answers)

Total: 85 points (to avoid negative scores, each student will begin with 15 points)

AWARDS

·             PERFECT SCORE AWARD

·             GOLD AWARD

·             SILVER AWARD

·             BRONZE AWARD

All the participants will receive a Certificate.

The top 40% of the participants will receive an award certificate and a medal (Gold for top 8%, Silver for next 12% and Bronze for next 20%).

Perfect scorers will receive a Perfect Score Award and $100 cash each, up to a maximum of $5000 for all the perfect scorers. In the rare event when there are more than 50 perfect scorers, the $5000 will be divided among all the perfect scorers.

SASMO ADVISORY COUNCIL (SAC)

Dr Yeo Boon Wooi, Joseph SAC Chairman

SAC Chairman

·         Mathematics professor at Singapore’s National Institute of Education

·         Recipient of the prestigious Nanyang Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013

·         First author of the New Syllabus Mathematics used in secondary schools marketed worldwide

·         Specializes in training in-service math teachers for Singapore’s Ministry of Education

·         Developed the viral math problem “Cheryl’s Birthday”

Dr Yeap Ban Har

SAC Member

·         Principal of the Marshall Cavendish Institute

·         Director of Curriculum and Professional Development at Pathlight School, an autism-oriented K-10 school in Singapore

·         Advisory board of the SEED Institute and several schools in Singapore and Asia

·         Collaborates with the Curriculum Planning and Development Division of the Ministry of Education in Singapore regularly

·         Consultant assisting Brunei’s MOE in their new Math text books and trains Brunei government teachers

Dr Wong Khoon Yoong

SAC Member

·         Retired as an Associate Professor in mathematics education from the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University

·         Taught mathematics in Malaysia and mathematics education courses in universities in Australia, Brunei Darussalam, and Singapore over four decades

·         Provided consultancy to Singapore schools and education institutes in Chile, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the United States

·         Principal investigator for Singapore in two major international studies on mathematics teacher education

·         Co-authored a teacher training manual on mathematical thinking for the Australian national statement