The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC), has become Canada's largest and most recognized outreach organization for promoting and creating activities and materials in mathematics and computer science. The CEMC is housed within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. It was founded in 1995 with origins dating back to the 1960s.

The CEMC administers the Canadian Mathematics Competitions (CMC), written annually by over 200,000 students from around the world.

The contests are listed by grade below.

• Grade 7 - Gauss 7
  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum...
  
  
• Grade 8 - Gauss 8
  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum...
  
  
• Grade 9 - Pascal
  Blaise Pascal
  Blaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...
  
   and Fryer
• Grade 10 - Cayley
  Arthur Cayley
  Arthur Cayley F.R.S. was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics....
  
   and Galois
  Évariste Galois
  Évariste Galois was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a long-standing problem...
  
  
• Grade 11 - Fermat
  Pierre de Fermat
  Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his adequality...
  
   and Hypatia
• Grade 12 - Euclid
  Euclid
  Euclid , fl. 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I...
  
  
• Grade 9 and 10 - Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest (New - beginning in November 2011)
• Grade 11 and 12 - Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest (New - beginning in November 2011)

The CEMC also hosts the Canadian Computing Competition

Canadian computing competition

The Canadian Computing Competition is a national programming competition for secondary school students in Canada. Sponsored by the University of Waterloo, the CCC takes place once a year. Stage 1 is a written at high schools and can be written in the programming language of the students' choice,...

(CCC), which is offered at the Junior and Senior levels for all high school students.

External links

• Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing