Image Credit: Math Prize for Girls website The Math Prize for Girls is one of the world’s premier high school competitions for female-identifying students who have a passion for mathematics.

In this post, we provide a comprehensive overview of Math Prize for Girls, including its application requirements, key dates, and tips and tricks for how to get in.

What is Math Prize for Girls?

Math Prize for Girls is an annual, one-day high school math competition hosted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Each year, the contest welcomes around 250 young female students to the Cambridge campus where they participate in panel discussions, network with other bright women, and join in fun events like campus tours and a game night.

Our goal is to promote gender equity in the STEM professions and to encourage young women with exceptional potential to become mathematical and scientific leaders.

Math Prize for Girls official website Math Prize for Girls boasts the largest math prize for female high school students in the world.

Students compete for cash prizes from a cash pool of $100,000, with the first-place winner being awarded $50,00

0. The program cost for Math Prize for Girls is free.

However, travel and lodging expenses are not reimbursed.

Math Prize for Girls Requirements Math Prize for Girls is extremely hard to get in.

Therefore, it's important to make sure your application includes all requirements and you are eligible for the contest.

See the list for all application components and eligibility criteria below: Be in 11th grade or below as of Spring of the relevant year’s application cycle Be female-identifying Live in the United States or Canada; U.

S. citizens/permanent residents living outside of the country are welcome to apply but must submit additional documentation Submission of AMC 10 or AMC 12 score If applicable, submission of AIME and/or previous year’s Math Prize for Girls contest score The application deadline falls on May 31, 2024 this year.

A low score in a second qualifying exam will not affect your application if you are above the cutoff in another qualifying exam.

E. g.

If your AMC 12A exam is above our cutoff this year but your AMC 10B score is below our cutoff this year, you will get an invitation from us.

Math Prize for Girls official website How to Get into Math Prize for Girls Math Prize for Girls is unique in the way that its application doesn’t require the submission of essays or short answers—the meat of your application, essentially, is your AMC score.

In other words, the key to getting in is to score as high as possible on either the AMC 10 or 1

2. The annual AMC cutoff to be invited to Math Prize for Girls is a little higher than the AIME cutoff, which is top

2. 5% of scorers for AMC 10 and top 5% for AMC 1

2. This is extremely selective.

If you’re a Math Prize for Girls hopeful, make sure you follow these steps to get in.

Determine whether you’re taking the AMC 10 or 1

2. The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) is one of the world’s most famous and prestigious high school math exams.

Top scorers on the AMC are invited to take the AIME, the intermediate examination between the AMC and the USA Math Olympiad.

Image Credit: Mathematical Association of America The AMC consists of two tests: the AMC 10 and 12, and are both 25-question tests designed to be completed over a 75-minute time interval.

AMC 10 is for tenth graders and below; AMC 12 is for twelfth graders and below.

The cutoff for the AMC 12 is generally lower than that of the AMC 10, but comes at the cost of the test being more difficult and encompassing more material.

The consensus online seems to recommend taking the AMC 12 over the AMC 10 because the benefit of competing against fewer people in AMC 12 outweighs the cost of learning extra material that's generally not difficult to learn.

Start prepping early.

Regardless of your choice, make sure to start preparing for the test well in advance in order to maximize your chances of getting into Math Prize for Girls.

The examination for AMC tests occurs annually in around November, and the regular registration closes in late October.

Doing well in competition math is a skill honed over months, if not years’ worth of practice.

If you’re just starting out in high school, good news—you already have the basic foundation of math down from core classes at school.

To build from the bottom up, supplement your learning process with foundational books and/or online classes and videos.

Then, practice!

Do problems from previously released AMC tests and pinpoint which areas need more work and intuition building.

You don’t have to be a complete genius to do well in math competitions.

Most people can do it, but few follow through and stick to the process.

Utilize all resources.

There’s a vibrant and thriving community within competition math, and within it numerous helpful resources that veterans and active competitors have put together over the past years.

You’re welcome to go and search for these on your own, but we’ve compiled top places to start with for your next (or first!) practice session to work towards getting an invitation from Math Prize for Girls.

Foundational books: Art of Problem Solving Volume 1: The Basics, Art of Problem Solving Volume 2: and Beyond, Modern Olympiad Number Theory, A Gentle Introduction to the American Invitational Mathematics Exam AMC 10 and AMC 12 problem datasets (from 2000 up to 2023) Key formulas to memorize/familiarize yourself with  Online courses/video series: AoPS AMC Problem Seminars, 3Blue1Brown AoPS online community (discussion/problem boards, other contests, & more) Concluding Remarks In this article, we provided a comprehensive guide to the Math Prize for Girls competition.

However, don’t stop at this blog post.

See the video below for exclusive secrets from an International Math Olympiad winner (the highest Math Olympiad level)! https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=SHWGvC3SvK8&pp=ygUPcmlzaGFiIGphaW4gaW1v Don’t be intimidated as you start practicing for math competitions; we all start from somewhere.

Keep in mind that hard work beats talent at the end of the day, and stay consistent with practice.

Best of luck!.