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Upstate New York Math Team
Mathematical Problem Solving
Dear Upstate New York Math Team,
Happy New Year!
The Fall math competition season brought us a successful Cornell University Big Red Math Competition (CUBRMC), an exhilarating Princeton University Math Competition (PUMaC), and the AMC 10 and 12 contests. What other contests do you participate in?
The Upstate New York Math Team will soon start recruiting for our 2026 American Regions Math League (ARML) teams, so please keep an eye out for the announcements. ARML is our key event each year. This year’s event takes place on May 30 at several sites around the country, and attracts thousands of enthusiastic high school (and a few middle school) students.
I do have an urgent request for you today: we have been invited to send a team to the Harvard MIT Math Tournament (HMMT) on the February 14th weekend. We still have two spots to fill to make a minimal team roster, and could add as many as four additional students. We have until the end of the day on Tuesday, January 13, to make our roster.
Like PUMaC, HMMT is a very challenging math contest, so we’ve been focusing on teammates who have already competed with us at ARML. If you have already experienced ARML, and suddenly find yourself available for HMMT on February 14, please get in touch ASAP. You must live or study in New York State, but not in Long Island or New York City. You must not be part of a math team that also competes in HMMT (November or February), even if you are not selected for their team. That includes the Albany Area Math Circle and the Westchester Area Math Circle.
This may also turn out to be a huge opportunity for an up-and-coming star. If you are a high school math problem solver who has just found us, and HMMT sounds exciting, please (1) send me an email and also (2) make an account on their website, hmmt.org. If you know such an individual, I’d be grateful if you would help us connect.
Sincerely,
Japheth
P.S.: Please consider making a gift to the Upstate New York Math Team. Support mathematical problem solving in Upstate New York!
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Japheth Wood is a coach for the Upstate New York Math Team and also a math professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Summer Math Programs
Now is a great time to apply to summer math program. Here are two lists for you to review:
Events
Here is a list of math contests that may be of interest to our math team community.
10/25/2025 CUBRMC at Cornell University!
11/5/2025 AMC 10/12A
11/8/2025 HMMT Nov
11/13/2025 AMC 10/12B
11/22/2025 PUMAC
1/22/26 to 01/28/26 AMC 8
2/5/2026 AIME I (invite only)
2/11/2026 AIME II (invite only)
2/14/2026 HMMT Feb
3/21/26 to 03/22/26 USAMO/USAJMO (invite only)
3/26/2026 CMIMC
Spring 2026 SOMT
April 2026 Purple Comet
4/18/2026 NYSML
5/30/2026 ARML
Do you know of an event that should be listed here? Please let me know!
Trainings
We haven’t started our trainings and practices yet.
In the meantime, we recommend Paul Zeitz’s book, The Art and Craft of Problem Solving. Grab a copy and learn!
We are also seeking a volunteer to help bring back the Problem of the Day on our Discord server. It’s a nice project that has impact.
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