Introduction
Taking part in a math competition allows students to hone their issue solving skills and offers to generate rate of interest for maths among them. Yearly, there are numerous mathematics olympiads which main school trainees can join as well as several of the more prominient ones are listed in this article.

The Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools 2009 (APMOPS 2009) is arranged yearly in April -May by the Hwa Chong Institution-Aphelion Consortium. There are 2 rounds to this mathematics competition for 6th graders.

The preliminary of the competition is generally held in April as well as is performed throughout the various centres across the Asia-Pacific area. The contest kept in Singapore is frequently known as Singapore Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Colleges (SMOPS).
USA Math Contest for high school students

Awards for SMOPS
Trainees compete for the adhering to honors in the SMOPS.

1) Top 10 private rewards, granted to the leading 10 markers.
2) 3 Honourable Reference Team Awards and also 5 Honourable Reference Individual Awards.
3) Leading 3 college honors, given to the three colleges with the highest mixed score of its top 3 students.

Additionally, pupils that are rated among the top 10% or leading two hundred individuals( whichever is reduced) will certainly be welcomed to write the second round of the competition called the Asia-Pacific Mathematical Olympiad (APMOPS) 2009 This year's competition was hung on a Saturday, 30 May 09.

APMOPS 2009.
Throughout APMOPS, trainees get the chance to engage with various other mathematically gifted students from the various nations. They also contend for the forty private prizes which will certainly be given out on afternoon of 30 May 09.

Format of the APMOPS Competition
The APMOPS contest obstacles students to finish 6 inquiries within 2 hours.
No mathematical tables or calculators are allowed for the contest. Students need to show all the functions for each inquiry. Each question brings 10 marks as well as the total rating is 60 marks.

National Mathematical Olympiad of Singapore (NMOS).
The NMOS is a competitors arranged by the NUS High School of Mathematics and also Science. This competitors is created to stimulate rate of interest among trainees for mathematics. This competitors is normally kept in the months of July-August and also invites pupils in Main 5 as well as below to get involved to challenge their guts with other mathletes. Different awards are provided to trainees that took care of to attain quality ratings in competitors. Usually the registration begins in May of yearly.
High School Students

American Mathematics Contest 8( AMC 8).
The American Math Contest 8 is the very first of a collection of mathematics competitions organised by the Mathematical Association of America and is carried out by Maths Sanctuary Pte Ltd in Singapore. This International competitors invites pupils who want mathematics and also registered in qualities 8 or Additional 2 as well as below to get involved.

Trainees reach test themselves with mathematics that is past what they generally come across in school and also they can experience a broad spectrum of subjects readily available in Intermediate school Math. The multiple-choice style of this competition makes it attemptable by lots of students. Students need to complete 25 questions within a forty-minute period as well as there is no penalty for wrong responses.

Annually, more than a hundred thousand students take part in the AMC 8 contest.High racking up trainees in this contest can anticipate challenge themselves in greater degrees contest such as the AMC 10. AMC 12 or American Invitationa lMathematics Examiniations. These are the different mathematics competitions and also olympiads pupils in Singapore can take part in every year from the main college levels onwards.