Princeton Math Tournament

What is Princeton Math Tournament?

Princeton Math Tournament (PMT) is a math tournament hosted by Princeton High School's Math Team. The tournament will be hosted at Princeton High School (151 Witherspoon St., Princeton NJ) from 10AM - 5PM on Saturday, February 21st.

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 two rounds:

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
10:30-11:20 AM Sprint Round 152
11:25-12:05 PM Target Round 153, 155, 156
12:05-1:05 PM Lunch (pizza) Cafeteria
1:10-1:50 PM Puzzle round 152
2:00-2:40 PM Countdown round (div A) 153, 155, 156
2:50-3:30 PM Countdown round (div B) 152
3:45 - 4:30 PM Closing Ceremony PAC Auditorium

Prizes

We plan to have certain merch and giveaways for each participant, as well as separate awards for the top 10 individuals of each division (score is # Sprint + # Target * 2) as well as prizes for the top 5 teams of the Puzze Round. The specific prizes will be listed below in the future!

Register

Our Team

Our team is made up of 11 dedicated members of Princeton High School's Math Team. 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

Maiya

William

Jonathan

Alex

Mateo

Jay

Yoav

Oscar

Daniel

Om

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

Sponsor us!

Princeton Math Tournament wouldn't be possible without the help of our sponsors
If you're interested in sponsoring us, please email team@phsmt.org for more info. We appreciate any help we can get!

Please help us make great competitions by sponsoring! It really means a lot to us, and to all the participants of the competition!