700-plus PH students among topnotchers in Aussie math contest
More than 700 Filipino students were among the top scorers in the 2024 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) that drew some 53,000 young math aces from 20 countries worldwide.
This was announced early this week by the Canberra-based Australian Maths Trust (AMT) which has been conducting the AMC since 1976.
In an e-mail to the Mathematics Trainers’ Guild Phils. (MTG), its local partner, the AMT also disclosed that two Philippine contestants both secured “Second Best” or Top 2 honors in their respective Southeast Asia divisions.
According to the AMT, Adrian Jeric Ang, a Grade 3 student of Xavier School in San Juan City, had scored 112 out of 120 points in his middle primary division.
The other Filipino special awardee, Jerome Austin Te, a Grade 11 student of Jubilee Christian Academy in Quezon City, scored 105 out of 120 points in his secondary division.
The AMT had earlier honored Te when he aced the AMC by garnering a perfect score in the tilt’s 2022 edition.
The AMT also reported to MTG head Dr. Simon Chua that 27 Filipino students would be awarded High Distinction certificates which are given to contestants in the Top 3 percent of their year level.
Meanwhile, 138 others would get Distinction certificates for being in the Top 20 percent of their year level.
Another 289 students would receive Credit certificates for being in the Top 55 percent of the primary division and Top 60 percent of the secondary division.
On the other hand, Proficiency certificates would be awarded to 267 others who had demonstrated competency in math problem solving.
The Filipino math aces competed against their counterparts from France, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Fiji, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong, Macau and China.
Last year, 675 Filipino students won various awards at the AMC, which is open to those in Grades 3 to 12.
Like Te, 15 other MTG-trained math aces had scored 100 percent in the contest between 2009 and 2019.
Chua noted “our mathletes continue to do very well in the AMC.”
The MTG administered the AMC on Aug. 10 onsite in its training centers nationwide. Over 800 Filipino students took part in the competition.
The contest paper consists of 30 multiple choice questions which are ordered in increasing difficulty. They cover basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, fractions, ratios, statistics and problem solving.

























