Princeton Math Tournament

What is Princeton Math Tournament?

Princeton Math Tournament (PMT) is a math tournament hosted by Princeton High School's Math Team for students in grades 3-8, in teams of 1-3. The tournament will be hosted at Princeton High School (151 Witherspoon St., Princeton NJ) from 10AM - 5PM on Saturday, January 31st. Additionally, for those unable to make it to Princeton, New Jersey, the tournament is also held online on February 1st! (Note that those within ~30 or 40 minute driving distance away must attend the offline option).

Tournament Structure

Competitors will be split into two divisions. Division A will be grades 6 - 8; division B will be grades 3 - 5.
The tournament will consist of four rounds:

A 40 minute sprint round consisting of 30 problems
A (roughly) 30 minute target round consisting of 8 problems presented in pairs of 6 minutes each
A 30 minute puzzle round done in teams of 3, consisting of 15 problems.
A 40 minute team round with 8 sets of questions, 3 questions in each set.

Schedule

Time	Event	Location
9:00-10:00 AM	Check-in	PAC Lobby
10:00-10:30 AM	Late Check-In	PAC Lobby
10:00-10:30 AM	Opening Ceremony	Cafeteria
10:40 - 11:40AM	Speaker Talk (Mysterious Speaker TBD)	Cafeteria
10:30-11:20 AM	Sprint Round	Auditorium
11:30-12:05 PM	Target Round	Auditorium
12:05-1:05 PM	Lunch (free pizza)	Cafeteria & PAC Lobby
1:10-2:00 PM	Team Round	Auditorium
2:10 - 3:15 PM	Puzzle Round	Cafeteria & PAC
3:30 - 4:30 PM	Closing Ceremony	PAC Auditorium

At the closing ceremony, we'll be offering special recognition and over $4,000 worth of total prizes (including cash prizes for middle schoolers for both in-person and online participants and plushies for both divisions!) to the top 10 individuals and top 3 teams of each division, along with the top 5 of each grade!

Additionally,

All in-person participants will recieve a card deck or rubix cube
There will be a Raffle for two AOPS $25 gift cards.

Register

Registration for Princeton Math Tournament is open! The first 50 participants to register will recieve special Areteem bags and an additional raffle entry, so be sure to register soon!

Our Team

Our core team is made up of 11 dedicated members of Princeton High School's Math Team, collaborating with numerous volunteers from West Windsor Plainsboro schools and Princeton University. We bring problem-writing experience from participating in numerous national competitions including HMMT, MMATHS, and ARML and placing in multiple tournaments over the past years including PUMaC, HMMT, and Purple Comet. Our team members also bring past experience from organizing large-scale academic competitions and events for youth including HackPHS, Integirls NJ, and the Gauss Math Tournament.

Emma Li

Co-Director

Emma is currently serving as our event Co-Director and Head of Logistics. She's also been helping with problem-writing, venue acquisition, and team management leading up to the competition!

Outside of PHSMT, Emma's helped organize another great event, hackPHS!

Co-Director

Maiya's leading our sponsor relations efforts, reaching out to and ensuring that our sponsors get everything they need out of the event (and that the sponsors can help us make the event as good as it can be!). She's also helped write and test problems.

Problem Writer

William's working on writing and consolidating the final list of problems for the tournament. He also serves as our team "safety" coordinator, ensuring that all members and participants feel that PMT is a safe, welcoming space for them.

Problem Writer, Web Developer

Jonathan's done a lot of the problem writing, and helped with content management for the website. He's also our "not poker" expert, who helps us stop participants and organizers from dangerous gambling-like activities.

Outside of PHSMT, Jonathan co-directed hackPHS 2025!

Problem Writer, Marketing, Web Developer

Alex has jumped between every team as needed at the moment. He's written a lot of the problems, helped create and send out marketing, and contributed here and there to the website.

Problem Writer, Marketing

Mateo's played a really big role in writing problems and making marketing materials for PMT. He's also serving as our statistical games expert.

Problem Writer and Tester, Marketing

Jay wrote many of the problems for the lower division of PMT, and helped a lot with marketing for Div B. He's also served as PMT's main problem tester

Problem Writer, Marketing

Yoav contributed problems for all three rounds, and helped the marketing team get the word out.

Problem Writer, Marketing, Web Developer

Oscar's been involved in all parts of Princeton Math Tournament. He contributed a lot to the problem bank, helped with marketing, and helped a bit with the web development

Outside of PMT, Oscar's helping organize hackPHS 2026

Problem Writer, Marketing

Daniel is writing problems for PMT, and is helping to market the tournament.

Head Developer

Om designed, prototyped and built the website for PHS's Math Team and PMT. He's also leading work on a real-time test grader for the competition.

Outside of Princeton Math Tournament, Om co-directed hackPHS 2025, and likes doing random shenanigans