A high school student from Chiang Kai Shek College got a perfect score while more than 200 Filipino students got high marks in the correspondence-based Canadian Mathematics Competition (CMC) administered in the Philippines this year.

The CMC is an annual competition organized by the Center for Education in Mathematics and Computing based at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

The Mathematics Trainers Guild-Philippines (MTG) administered the contest--which consisted of Pascal for Grade 9, Cayley (Grade 10), Fermat (Grade 11) and Euclid (Grade 12)--to Filipino students who took the tests in the Philippines between February and April this year.

Dr. Simon Chua, MTG president, said Henry Jefferson Morco of Chiang Kai Shek College achieved a perfect score in the Cayley Contest, making him the recipient of the CMC 2009 medal.

A total of 105 other students got certificates of distinction for making it in the top 25 percent.

On the other hand, John Russell Virata of Gideon Academy became the top scorer among the Filipino students who took the Fermat Contest. Fifty-one others got the certificates of distinction. In the Pascal Contest, Austin Chua of St. Jude Catholic School ranked first among the 90 other students who took it.

Seven students, meanwhile, topped the Euclid Contest. They are Geraldine Baniqued of  St. Paul College-Pasig, Carmela Antoinette Lao of St. Jude Catholic School, John Russell Virata of Gideon Academy, Aldric Reyes and Matthew Ng of Chiang Kai Shek College, Zheng Rong Wu and Ricci Ryan Rojo of Zamboanga Chong Hua High School.

More than 70,000 students worldwide took the contest.

Dr. Chua underscored the significance of training as a factor in winning.

“When you are not practicing, remember, someone, somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win,” he said.

The MTG is currently training hundreds of students that will compete in different international math contests this year including in the United States, Hong Kong and China.