Continental  Math League (CML)

CML was founded in 1980 by Joseph quartaro and Henry hull, two math coaches with more than 30 years of teaching experience.At that time, most of the math challenge in the United States were for high school students.But Joseph and Henry believe that if we can develop students’ mathematical thinking from an early age, they are more likely to become mathematicians and make greater contributions.CML attaches to the design of challenge content to satisfy the needs of more students,for example, each set of questions will have both difficult and simple questions.At the same time, in order to promote the school’s attention to mathematics and the communication between schools,CML decided to rank the school grades.We will select the best 6 students of each grade oto add up their scores, so as to represent the best scores of the school to rank the school.Different from the American Mathematics Competition (AMC) which emphasizes selection,CML emphasizes the beneficial supplement of in class teaching,stimulate interest in Mathematics。As a result, nearly 70000 people from more than 500 excellent junior and primary schools in the United States participate in CML every year.

Participants:

• Grade 1 -Grade 9

Rules:

• CML China adopts the traditional wheel rules. Contestants will get 3-5 sets of questions (3 sets for grade 1-3 and 5 sets for grade 4-9). After finishing one set of questions, they can go to the next set of questions. The longest time to solve each set of questions is no more than 30 minutes. After students submit the answers to each set of questions, there will be a real-time ranking. The final ranking of students will be determined according to their grades and the speed of answering questions

Type:

• Grade 1-3: each papers has 3 sets of tests, each set of 6 questions needs 30 minutes to complete, 18 questions and 90 minutes.Same questions for grades 1-2.
• Grade 4-9: each papers has 5 sets of tests, each set of 6 questions needs 30 minutes to complete,30 questions and 150 minutes. Different questions for 4-9 grades respectively.