Frequently Asked Questions
Who can be on a team?
Any student in high school (or a highly gifted middle school student) may participate. A full team will have 6 competitors for MMATHS and 4 competitors for Girls in Math. A team can have members from different schools. If you can't make a full team, the contest organizers can attempt to pair you with other students for the team round.
What's the format of the contest?
The individual round is a 12-question, 75-minute test. All of the questions are weighted equally and have only numerical answers.
In the "mathathon" round, you work together with your team to solve 7 small packets of questions. When you submit your final answers to one packet, your team may move onto the next one. The point values for each question increase, and so does the difficulty. You may spend as much time as you'd like on any one packet, but your team will only have 75 minutes to get through as many packets as it can. (Note: this round is similar to HMMT's Guts round.)
The individual tiebreaker round is a 4-question, 45-minute, short answer test. Ties are first broken by score, then broken by time.
For the "mixer" round, we randomize the teams. Each of the newly formed teams will have 45 minutes to work on a variety of challenging questions. The individuals in the tiebreaker round will arrive late to this event. They will be split into teams and have to catch up to the rest of the room!
In the "mathathon" round, you work together with your team to solve 7 small packets of questions. When you submit your final answers to one packet, your team may move onto the next one. The point values for each question increase, and so does the difficulty. You may spend as much time as you'd like on any one packet, but your team will only have 75 minutes to get through as many packets as it can. (Note: this round is similar to HMMT's Guts round.)
The individual tiebreaker round is a 4-question, 45-minute, short answer test. Ties are first broken by score, then broken by time.
For the "mixer" round, we randomize the teams. Each of the newly formed teams will have 45 minutes to work on a variety of challenging questions. The individuals in the tiebreaker round will arrive late to this event. They will be split into teams and have to catch up to the rest of the room!
What is the schedule of events?
The 2021 MMATHS schedule will be announced by email to registered teams.
What type of math will be tested?
Questions will challenge students' problem-solving abilities in areas such as algebra, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. No individual questions will require the use of mathematics beyond precalculus. Only a small number of team questions might require the use of calculus, so we recommend that every team has at least one member familiar with calculus.
How many teams can each school send?
Organizations can send up to three teams to MMATHS and two teams to Girls in Math.
Is there a registration fee?
There will be no registration fee for MMATHS or Girls in Math for the 2021-2022 school year.
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