- The Singapore Mathematics Project Festival (hereinafter called “the Festival”) is organized by the Singapore Mathematical Society. The Festival Congress will be held during on 20th May 2023. The objectives of the Festival are
- To encourage secondary school students in Singapore to carry out and present innovative and creative work in mathematics.
- To recognize and emphasize the importance of project-based learning in the secondary school curriculum.
- To complement the examination-based Mathematical Olympiads organized by the Singapore Mathematical Society.
- The Festival aims to showcase mathematical projects completed by secondary school students in the year preceding submission. Projects may be carried out by teams of not more than four members from the same school. The deadline for submission is 15th March 2023. The language of the Festival will be English.
- Projects submitted to the Festival may be submitted to other interschool competition organized by other organizations. However, the projects have to be done by the students within the calendar year of 2022, and may not be submitted to any competition held before 2023.
- The Festival will have two sections : a Junior Section and a Senior Section.
- For the Junior Section, projects submitted must be carried out by students who are in Secondary One or Two in the Express Stream (including the Gifted Education Programme), or Secondary One, Two or Three in the Normal Stream (Academic or Technical) in the year in which the project is carried out (i.e., the year preceding submission).
- For the Senior Section , projects submitted must be carried out by students who are in secondary schools in the year in which the project is carried out.
- Any project (on any topic) that is relevant and/or related to mathematics may be submitted to the Festival. Projects submitted to the Festival need not involve advanced mathematical ideas or concepts, and problems investigated need not be solved completely or conclusively. Projects submitted will be judged based on the following Criteria of Assessment:
- Mathematical content
- Creativity and originality
- Applicability and relevance
- Overall presentation
- For the purpose of judging creativity and originality, submission of journals on the project is strongly encouraged.
- Authors of all projects will be asked to make a 20-minute presentation video for the preliminary round. The preliminary round. The presentation and the written reports will be assessed by a panel of judges made up of mathematicians.
- Based on the the oral presentations and written projects, we will invite teams with potential of getting at least a silver medal to be interviewed and give an oral presentation at the Festival congress on 20th May 2023.
- Each school is invited to submit not more than five projects to each section of the Festival. There is a registration fee of $50 per project for schools which are SMS institutional members and $60 per project for schools which are non-SMS institutional members. Schools intending to submit projects undertaken by their students are required to register each project online between 1st January 2023 to 15th March 2023. Payment of the registration fee, together with online submission of the projects must be completed by 31st March 2023. Late registrations, payments, submissions will not be accepted.
- At the end of the Festival, prizes and awards will be given out as follows:
- For the Junior Section, the project judged to be the overall best project (with Gold award) by the panel of judges may be awarded the Foo Kean Pew Memorial Prize (Junior Section) (with cash value of $1,000 including the Gold medal). The school that submits the project winning the Foo Kean Pew Memorial Prize in the Junior Section will be awarded the Singapore Mathematical Society Shield (Junior Section), which will be kept by the school until the next festival. A Shield may be kept permanently by a school that has submitted the overall best project for five consecutive festivals.
- For the Senior Section, the project judged to be the overall best project (with Gold award) by the panel of judges may be awarded the Foo Kean Pew Memorial Prize (Senior Section) (with cash value of $1,000 including the Gold medal). The school that submits the project winning the Foo Kean Pew Memorial Prize in the Senior Section will be awarded the Singapore Mathematical Society Shield (Senior Section), which will be kept by the school until the next festival. A Shield may be kept permanently by a school that has submitted the overall best project for five consecutive festivals.
- For each section, projects of sufficient merit will be awarded Gold/Silver/Bronze prizes and honorable mention. Each Gold/Silver/Bronze award project will receive a cash prize of $400/$200/$100 respectively. In addition, a project with good presentation may be awarded speical cash prize of $50. Certificates of participation will be awarded to all participants.
