The Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest (CSMC) and the Euclid Contest are the CEMC’s most senior math contests. The mathematical background required for these two contests is similar, so students can use these preparation materials for both.
We recommend that you begin by reading the General Preparation Advice document. It will give you some important advice as you prepare for and write these two contests.
There are eight major topic areas covered in these preparation materials. For each topic, a toolkit outlines the ideas that will be important when solving problems in this area. We have included sample problems with full solutions, as well as a problem set for you to try yourself. Solutions to these problem sets are posted separately.
These topics are not posted in any particular order. Contest problems often combine different topics, so you may encounter a problem in one topic that uses concepts from another topic. The toolkits are only brief summaries of some of the useful results in each topic area and are not intended to completely cover everything that you might find useful when writing these contests. These results are not proven or explained. For more explanation of some of these facts and results, you may want to consult the CEMC Courseware.