IMSO Syllabus

Comprehensive guide to the International Mathematics and Science Olympiad (IMSO) for Primary School curriculum

Mathematics Syllabus

1. Arithmetic

Whole numbers, Rational numbers and their representations (fraction, decimals, and percentages), pattern recognition, Factors and Multiples, Greatest Common Divisor, Least Common Multiples, Ordering of numbers, and Ratio and Proportion

2. Geometry

Properties of polygons (Triangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezium) and circles

  • Angle and its measure
  • Area and Perimeter of different polygons
  • Symmetry, reflection and rotation, similarity and proportion Properties solid figures
  • Nets of a cube, and parallelepiped
  • Symmetry, reflection and rotation, similarity, and proportion
3. Data and Measurement
  • Data representation and interpretation
  • Mean, median, and mode of a set of data
4. Counting Techniques
5. Recreational Mathematics

Science Syllabus

1. Science skills and methodology

General health (nutrition, common disease, and prevention)

2. General environmental issues

Deforestation, managing natural resource pollution, water and carbon cycle, etc

3. Basic ecology

Habitat, interaction, food chain and food web, population, ecosystem, life cycle, etc

4. Physiology

Photosynthesis and respiration

5. Current technological developments

GMOs, biotech, biofuel, satellites, etc

6. Human anatomy and functions

Skeleton and movement, olfactory system, auditory system, mouth, eyes, circulatory, digestive system, skin, respiratory system) and its disease and problems

7. Classifying organisms

Based on their food, anatomy, systematics, reproduction system and its habitat

8. Mechanics

Motion of objects, static fluid and gas

9. Solar system

Members of the solar system, rotation of earth and moon, earth and moon eclipses

10. Planet Earth

Structure, surface, the process of earth formation, water cycle, renewable resources, climate, seasons, gravitation, wind

11. Electricity and magnetism

Applications, models

12. Matter

Properties, phase transformation (solid, liquid, gas) physical, chemical, and biological transformation

13. Thermal properties

Temperature, thermometer, energy, conduction, convection, radiation

14. Light

Property, vision, color

15. Forces

Change in shape, magnetic, gravitation, frictional forces

16. Energy and energy changes

Kinetic, potential, heat, sound, renewable, energy conversion