Math Kangaroo USA 2011

Top Banana Education Foundation becomes a test center for Math Kangaroo, an international schoolchildren competition in mathematics. The contest takes place annually on a third Thursday of March. In 2011, it falls on March 17th. The competition originally started out in Australia in the 1980's. In 1991, it came to France where it was dubbed "Math Kangaroo" for the place of its origin.  It was brought to the United States 1998. Last year, there were test centers in 46 countries around the world and in 27 US states with close to 6,000,000 participants worldwide.

The contestants are offered 24 questions in grades 2 through 4 and 30 questions in grades 5 and above. The test session is 75 minutes long. Students must be able to work independently. Each contestant receives a t-shirt and a certificate of participation on the test day. The results are announced in May.

We will be hosting two separate test sessions, at 3:45 pm and 5:30 pm on Thursday, March 17, 2011, in Newton Highlands, MA. Participation fee is $20 if registered prior to January 10, 2011 and $30 thereafter. Registrations are not accepted after January 30th.

In preparation to the competition, there will be training and practice sessions offered to the contestants registered for the Top Banana Education Foundation location in January, February and March of 2011. The schedule for the training and practice test sessions will be announced at the beginning of January and will be based on the number of registrants in each grade-age group.

To register your student, please call us at 888-411-KIDS (5437) or email from Contact page.