Challenge and Motivation: Math Competitions motivate students via interesting and challenging problems and topics. Many of them make learning math more fun among peers with similar interests.
Problem-Solving Skills: Math Competitions help students develop and improve problem-solving skills which helps in high school, college and careers as a lifelong skill.
College Applications: Participation and success in Math competitions is a great bonus in the application for top colleges. For example, Caltech and MIT applications specifically ask students AMC 10/12 and AIME scores.
Pi Math Contest (PiMC) is a math competition for elementary, middle, and high school students. Euler division is for elementary school students (3rd-5th grades). Fermat division is for middle school students (6th – 8th grades). Gauss division is for high school students (9th – 12th grades).
No, students can only register and participate in either in-person or online format in the same division.
Upon registration, the PiMC system automatically generates student login information.
When your student is prepared to take the online test, they can click the “LMS” link
on the PiMathContest.com menu bar to begin within the testing window. The test can be
administered at any time before the specified end date and time. It is important to note
that all students are not required to take the test simultaneously.
Close the browser window no answers will be lost because the system records the answer of each question when they click Next.
Re-open the browser and log back in.
When the student re-opens the test, the questions that are already answered will be marked.
Yes, please check out the resources section.
Calculators are NOT allowed. See Format & Rules for more details.
