The American Mathematics Competitions are sponsored by the MAA and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The AMC 8 Exam, given to students in grade 8 and below, is a 25-question, 40-minute multiple-choice contest with no penalty for guessing. A student’s score is the number of problems correctly solved. The 2005 AMC 8 Exam was taken by 7340 students from 95 schools in Michigan on November 15, 2005. The overall Michigan average score was 8.91.

Perfect scores were achieved by seven Michigan students: six eighth graders and one seventh grader. They were Whit Froehlich and Robin He, Greenhills School in Ann Arbor; Michael Dimattia, Detroit County Day Middle School in Beverly Hills; J. J. Treadway, Central Middle School in Midland; Steven Chang and Jaewon Kim, Boulan Park Middle School in Troy; and Randy Jia, ICAE in Troy. The Edyth May Sliffe Award recognizes the excellence of 50 exam managers whose students are most successful on the AMC 8. The 2005 recipients of the award in Michigan were Roy Kenneth Downie, Smith Middle School in Troy, and Randall C. Meono, Detroit County Day Middle School in Beverly Hills.