We aim for girls to embrace “mathematician” as part of their core identity.
GAIM 2025 is coming April 4-11, 2025!
Registration starts November 1, 2024 and ends March 1, 2025.
Shirley's spaceship is currently at the star. She plans to drop 2024 sensors, one at each location indicated by a black dot in the pattern begun above. No sensor is dropped at her starting location. How many sensors will there be on the last straight segment that Shirley travels, right after she drops the 2024th sensor?
About the Competition
Girls’ Adventures in Math is a team-based online math challenge created for girls! Competition questions come in comic form based on the lives of four of history’s great pioneering women. Girls work together in their teams to solve the problems. There are two levels of competition, each with two rounds of mind-bending problems to solve:
Elementary (grades 3-5)
Middle School (grades 6-8)
SAMPLE QUESTIONS AND RESOURCES HERE.
Competition FAQ’s here.
Learn about our mission.
History of GAIM
On a snowy winter day in 2014, teachers at the Speyer Legacy School dreamed up the idea of a math competition for elementary and middle school girls, to foster their passion for math at an early age. Learn more
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Featured GAIM 2024 Women
Meet the GAIM 2025 featured women!
To spark your inspiration, GAIM recognizes four great women from history every year, and presents the competition problems in the context of their lives.
Our GAIM 2025 women are librarian Anne Carroll Moore, composer Florence Price, astronomer and geographer Mary Somerville, and molecular biologist Flossie Wong-Staal. GAIM girls, get to know the remarkable women who came before you, so that you are inspired to pursue your passions and make a difference!
“As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
looking forward
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GAIM 2024 Contest Results - thanks to all our awesome participants!!
Middle School National Champions
(3-way tie!)
Westchester Area Math Circle (NY) — Yunong, Ellie, Miriam, and Annabelle
The Brearley School (NY) — Ainslea, Audrey, Thu Lan, and Isabelle
Community Middle School (NJ) — Sravya, Shannon, and Mahathi
Elementary School National Champions
Art of Problem Solving (Bellevue, WA) — Olivia, Alara, Jennika
Disclaimer: All GAIM Competition problems and solutions are the sole intellectual property of Girls’ Adventures in Math. Any unauthorized reproduction, alteration, distribution, display or other use of this material is prohibited. Unless explicitly authorized by Girls’ Adventures in Math, no recipient is allowed to share GAIM competition problems or solutions with students or colleagues who are not participants of GAIM competitions. In the event of a violation of this copyright, Girls’ Adventures in Math reserves the right to seek all remedies available by law and in equity for such violations.