About the National Mathematics Talent Quest

All Queensland entires must be submitted to Jackie Mergard, QAMT, C/o Sch of Education

UQ St Lucia 4072 by Friday 4th September or contact qamt@uq.net.au

The National Mathematics Talent Quest (NMTQ) brings together the winners of state and territory competitions which recognise students' work on extended mathematical projects.

In addition to excellence in mathematics, winners excel in terms of creativity, presentation and communication. National judging occurs in October each year and responsibility for this rotates around the various states and territories. QAMT have reintroduced the Queensland Competition and envisage the state judging to take place in September . Watch this space for more details.

Goals

The NMTQ aims to promote:

appreciation of the scope of mathematics;
enjoyment of mathematics;
sustained investigation of mathematics over a period of time;
communication of mathematical ideas, information and conclusions;
integration of processes and content within mathematics;
creativity of both mathematical processes and mathematical presentations.

Entries

Entires may be on any mathematical topic and be presented in formats such as posters, written items (report, story, play, poem, diary, booklet etc.), video, computer based or physical models.

Categories and awards

At each year level (Pre-school-Year 12) awards may be given for

individual;
small group (2 - 6 students);
class group (7 or more students).

In addition, there are Overall Awards for best entries in Years Pre-school-4, 5-8, and 9-12. All entries receive Participation Certificates and judges can award Merit Certificates to outstanding entries which do not receive a major award.

Judging criteria

All entries are judged using criteria including: mathematical content; mathematical processes; source and originality of idea; coherence; use of language; and presentation.