An advert will be placed in the newspapers, social media pages of partners as well as through the education regional offices. All schools that wish to participate in the Mathematics Olympiad Competition must register through their respective Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture regional offices. Regional Coordinators will be responsible for the registration process and registration will be done online on the NMO online platform on or before a date set by the organising committee as the deadline for registration. The NCRST will keep a database of all schools in the country who registered for the competition.
Participation in the Mathematics Olympiad Competition is open to all learners from grade 8 to grade 11. The Mathematics Olympiad Competition will be conducted in the following 3 stages:
Round 1: School level
During this stage of the competition learners will be required to login online and answer a multiple-choice test within one hour. The mathematics teacher who is selected as the focal person will determine the 6 best learners (3 girls and 3 boys) to represent the school at the regional level. The mathematics teacher who is selected as the focal person will determine the 6 best/top performing learners (3 girls and 3 boys), based on their scores, to represent the school at the regional level.
Round 2: Regional level
During this stage of the competition school teams will compete against each other to answer a 2-hours short structured self-marking test. school teams will be required to login online and do the test at their selected schools. Each region will be required to select a team that will represent the region at National level. Each team should be comprised of the 3 boys and 3 girls who obtained the highest scores in this round.
Round 3: National level
During this stage of the competition regional teams will compete against each other to answer a 4-hours long structured test. The regions will be responsible to submit the names of their 6 winners to the NCRST via email. UNAM will be responsible to set up and mark the question papers. This stage will be done through a webinar.
The 3 top performing boys and 3 top performing girls, based on their scores, will represent Namibia at the Pan African Mathematics Olympiad (PAMO) in March 2022, irrespective of the region they came from. The team will undergo training to fully prepare for the competition. Grade 11 learners are also included. In the event where a grade 11 winner is not in high school the year of the competition, the next best learner of the same gender will replace that learner.