Registration is open for Grades 1-12
For Canadian Residents Only
OVERVIEW
Created in 2006, SASMO is one of the largest math contests in Asia. The SASMO Team with the support of the Advisory Council spends countless hours carefully developing contest papers that 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 (HOTS).
Mission
SASMO is a math olympiad contest that stretches not only the brightest students but is aimed at instilling confidence for all students. This is a perfect opportunity for Canadian students to compete with their counterparts.
The contest is designed in a way to make every student love Math again. SASMO contest fits nicely into the school curriculum with a high focus on non-routine problem sums – preparing for the SASMO contest helps students prepare for the higher level exams such as SSAT.
SASMO aims to arouse students’ interest in mathematical problem solving to develop mathematical intuition, reasoning, logic, creativity, and critical thinking.
AWARDS
- Perfect Score Award (Full marks) – qualifies as a significant award for IJHS*
- Gold Award (Top 8%) – qualifies as a significant award for IJHS*
- Silver Award (Next 12%)
- Bronze Award (Next 20%)
- Honorable Mention Award (Next 10%)
- Certificate of Participation (Next 50%)
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.
* IJHS is International Junior Honors Society
CONTEST DETails
CKSTEM is motivated to prepare Canadian students so that they can help Canada to become a world leader in science and technology. To achieve this goal we have built a partnership with Singapore International Mastery Challenge Center (SIMCC) in Canada. SIMCC is one of the largest academic contests organizers in Asia to groom and identify talent. We are committed to offering more opportunities for all students to gain international recognition through academic competitions. As a result of this new partnership, we will offer several English, Informatics, Mathematics, and Science contests for grades 2 to 12 students. In the coming months, we will be able to provide exciting opportunities to the kids to not only shine locally but to exhibit talent internationally with scholarships and specialized training in science and math as well.
To continue with this exciting journey, we are offering all our students an opportunity to participate in the SASMO Contest. The top 40% of the participants will receive an award certificate and a medal. All winners are invited to compete at STEAM AHEAD 2022 – Global Finals.Contest date & Time
SASMO contest will be held online on April 1st and 2nd 2022 at 10 am ET and 2 pm ET. We are allowing multiple slots to give flexibility to students and schools to participate in the contest on weekdays and weekends. In case we get a lot of requests, we may have to split participants into even more groups. You can register for this contest here. Please use your personal Gmail or Microsoft account to login if you are not an existing CKSTEM student.
The contest is 60-90 min long but we need students to join 30 min before the contest start time so that we can explain rules and set up screen sharing or zoom monitoring. Please note that it's a world olympiad and we need to ensure the integrity of the contest, hence, all participants are required to share their screens and video during the contest to qualify for the awards. We are also working on a locked-down browser and expecting it to be ready for this contest. In that case, setup time will be reduced significantly.
CONTEST FEES
This contest is offered for ~$45 independent students, As a non-profit organization focused on kids' success, we are able to offer this to Canadian students for only $25 early bird fees if you register by Dec 31st, 2021. Fees will be increased to $30 in 2022. Considering the value and opportunities this contest provides, we highly recommend all of you participate. Local students will receive their awards in a ceremony and we will ship for other Canadian students. Please feel free to invite other people you know. This is an incredible opportunity for all kids in Canada.
We welcome schools to host this contest. We have a simplified process for the schools with reduced fees. Teachers can run this contest as part of their science classes. We will make it extremely simple for the teachers to run the contest in their classrooms. Email us if you would like to register for your school or class.
We have to charge for this contest as we pay SIMCC for running their contests. We also have several operational costs e.g. shipping costs, free contests for needy students and volunteers, etc. We don't keep any profit but we would like our programs to be sustainable.
We are committed to helping students with financial constraints. Email us if you need support.
Registration Process
You are required to create an account with CKSTEM to register for the contests. We have simplified the process by integrating with Google and Microsoft Single Sign-On (SSO) process. This allows users to use their existing Gmail or Microsoft email address to account to log in to our portal. You can find detailed instructions to register here. It will take only a couple of minutes for you to create your account. If you have an account already then you can use it to register for the contest. Email us if you have any questions.
Contest Format & Syllabus
CONTEST FORMAT
SASMO is open to all Primary 2 to 6 and Secondary 1 to 4 students (Grade 2 to 10 students from International schools). The duration of the test is 90 minutes for all grades. Each level 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)
Grade 2-4 (Primary 2-4)
- Arithmetic and Statistics
- Geometry and Mensuration
- Solving word problems using model method (or any other non-algebraic methods)
- Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems and simple cryptarithms)
Grades 3-4: Introduction to Computer Science and Computational Thinking 1
This course introduces young children to the core ideas of computer science. Many key ideas of computer science are made accessible and engaging for this age group by presenting them as games. This course may be done without a computer, but the experience of the students can be enriched if computers are available. This lesson outline is (heavily) based on https://classic.csunplugged.org/ and https://code.org/educate/curriculum/elementary-school .
• Lesson 1: Review of Sequencing and Loops, Conditions
• Lesson 2: Trees
• Lesson 3: Information Theory
• Lesson 4: Searching
• Lesson 5: Sorting
• Lesson 6: Programming LanguagesGrade 5-6 (Primary 5-6)
- Arithmetic and Statistics
- Geometry and Mensuration
- Solving word problems using model method (or any other methods including algebra)
- Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems, and cryptarithms)
Grade 7 (Secondary 1)
- Arithmetic and Algebra
- Geometry, Graphs, and Mensuration
- Statistics
- Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems, and cryptarithms)
Grade 8 (Secondary 2)
- Arithmetic and Algebra
- Geometry, Graphs, and Mensuration
- Pythagoras’ Theorem
- Statistics
- Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems, and cryptarithms)
Grade 9-10 (Secondary 3-4)
- Arithmetic and Algebra
- Geometry, Graphs, and Mensuration
- Pythagoras’ Theorem and Trigonometry
- Statistics and Probability
- Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems, and cryptarithms)
Instruction document for parents
Please download the instruction document. This document contains instructions so that your child may sit for SIMCC competitions from the safety of your home. This is due to the rapidly changing situation regarding Covid-19. Many teachers and parents have expressed their concern whether contests can be run FAIRLY in a home environment and we have done extensive testing and benchmarking to ENSURE that we run a SECURE and FAIR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for all contestants.
Hence we seek your cooperation and support to implement the measures we have put in place to make the contest a FAIR competition for all contestants. Please advice your child NOT to share the questions with their friends or post them in ANY MEDIA, as this will disadvantage them and will NOT BE FAIR for other contestants.
Parents are recommended to test the necessary equipment the day before the contest as students will not be allowed to take part if any of the required equipment is not working. Thank you for your understanding and support.
Recommended minimum SYSTEM requirements for contest participants
This document contains recommended minimum requirements for the system used for contest participants. Please review this before the contest.
Contest Instructions
Online Contest System Guide
REFUND POLICY
The contest fees paid by students to Competitive Kids STEM for hosting competitions are non-refundable. To be allowed to host these contests, our organization pays a fee to the various external organizations that own these competitions. It is a significant amount of time and resource investment, not to mention the various charges paid for processing these payments to the external organizations, various third parties and financial institutions.
As a nonprofit organization, CKSTEM operates in a very lean manner and limited resources to keep our operating costs low in order to make our offerings available at a much lower cost to the students. Hence, we will not be able to offer any refund for contest fees to students for withdrawals or cancellations beyond our control.
If any student has been wrongly charged by CKSTEM, or we cancel an event due to reasons under our control and there are refunds provided to us from the external organizations, we will happily refund the fees paid by the students (deducting the processing charges).
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