Outstanding Results

While being taught in a public school during the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Spirit of Math produced more Canadian Junior High School Championship Teams in mathematics competitions than all other schools combined, winning well over half of the mathematics competitions that they entered. In 13 years, these students won over 80% of the Ontario Team Championships, including 7 Canadian championships in the Grade 9 Pascal Contest (a national mathematics contest sponsored by the University of Waterloo). During this time about 15% of its Grade 9 students were listed on the honor roll - almost three times as many students as the next prolific school in the country at the time. This success also was seen in the International Atlantic Pacific competition.

In the fall of 2003, over 4000 students throughout Canada and the United States competed in a competition open to the general public. A Spirit of Math student earned first place overall, (with a perfect score) and another student placed second place overall (with one error).

Although winning competitions are certainly times to celebrate, we applaud our students’ successes in the classrooms and promote the development of life skills that carry over to daily life.

Confidence, a strong sense of teamwork, and a solid understanding of how to approach many types of problems, are important achievements that stem from disciplines learned at SMS.

"Thank you so much for giving me and so many others talent and confidence in math, which spills over to all aspects of life."

-Adam R. Saunders, Previous Student, Council of Economics Advisers, Executive Office of the President of the United States of America.