The Margaret Morton Memorial Prize in Mathematics was established in the year 2001 in memory of Dr Margaret Morton, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at The University of Auckland from 1984 to 2000, and is financed from funds donated by relatives, friends and colleagues.

The main purpose of the Prize is to recognise a woman student who has exhibited the most potential to succeed in Mathematics Education, or Discrete Mathematics (including Graph Theory). If there is no suitable candidate in these areas, consideration will be given to offering the prize to a woman student in another area of Pure or Applied Mathematics.