"I am sure I can speak for everyone involved when I say that this was the best math competition we have ever been a part of. Many thanks to all of you for that wonderful happening."

Read about the 2012 national Who Wants to Be a Mathematician, which took place January 6 in Boston at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings. See the key for the qualifying test, which was used to select the 10 contestants and profiles of the 10 contestants.

Qualifying for the 2013 contest will begin in August. Teachers who would like their students to participate in qualifying for the 2013 contest can email paoffice at ams dot org with the subject line: 2013 National WWTBAM. Include your name and contact information in the body of the message, along with the courses you're teaching this school year.

Read about the 2011 national contest of Who Wants to Be a Mathematician and the previous national contest held at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco.

Who Wants to Be a Mathematician will be one of the events at the 2012 USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC. Find out more.

In the AMS game Who Wants to Be a Mathematician, high school students compete for cash and prizes by answering multiple choice mathematics questions. The cash prize in each game is donated by the AMS. Other prize donors are: Texas Instruments, Maplesoft Inc., and John Wiley & Sons.

The game is a program of the AMS Public Awareness Office and was developed by Mike Breen (AMS Public Awareness Officer) and Bill Butterworth (DePaul University ).

Archive: Read about past performances of the game.

Videos: Watching the game, and playing along, is a great activity for a math club or for individuals who want to match wits with the contestants.

Sample: If you'd like a PowerPoint file with sample questions, email the Public Awareness Office (paoffice at ams dot org) with the subject line: "wwtbam sample round."