Contest Information
(Updated: 12/10/2024)
MBMT is a free middle school math competition that seeks to excite students’ interests in mathematics and in pursuing mathematics beyond the school curriculum. We are pleased to announce that, for the 2025 year, the Montgomery Blair Math Team is hosting the 10th Montgomery Blair Math Tournament (MBMT X) on March 9th, 2025!
Registration
Registration will open on Monday, October 7th, 2024. We would like all math team sponsors to register their teams by Sunday, February 9th, 2025. This will help us estimate the number of teams participating and assist us with logistics. Please take note that if you don’t register by this date, you might not receive our free swag. To register, visit here. For more details on registration, see our Rules page.
Logistics
MBMT X will occur at Montgomery Blair High School on Sunday, March 9th, 2025 from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm. Our address is 51 University Blvd E, Silver Spring, MD 20901. Please arrive on the University Boulevard side of the school. Thanks to the generosity of the Montgomery County Division of Food & Nutrition Services, FREE lunch will be provided to all competitors and coaches. Coaches and participants are invited to bring snacks for their own team.
Contest
MBMT consists of four rounds: Individual Round, Team Round, Guts Round, and Fun Round. Both the Erdős (lower) and Weierstrass (upper) divisions will take Individual Subject Tests (of which students take two subjects among Algebra, Geometry, Counting and Probability, and Number Theory). Each Individual Subject Test consists of eight questions and lasts thirty minutes.
The Team Round has fifteen questions for all team members to collaboratively solve in forty-five minutes. The Guts Round is an hour-long round that is graded live and requires team members to work together on progressively harder five-problem sets, each of which is worth more points than the previous set. The Fun Round is an exciting round consisting of several separate mini-events, including puzzles, trivia, and an estimation round.
After hosting the tournament for several years, we have worked hard to calibrate the accessibility and difficulty of problems in both divisions. Our guiding philosophy is that every participant in MBMT should find the rounds approachable yet challenging.
Individual and team winners in each division will receive medals or trophies! Team scores are calculated using Team and Guts Round scores, combined with a weighted average of individual scores, and teams with the highest scores in each division win. The individual awards are for high-scoring individuals overall and in each subject test. There are also additional awards for high performance on the Guts Round. Finally, we will also recognize the highest-scoring 6th-grade student in the Erdős Division.
Schedule
| 11:00 - 12:00 PM | Registration + Lunch |
| 12:25 - 12:45 PM | Subject Test #1 |
| 12:55 - 1:25 PM | Subject Test #2 |
| 1:25 - 1:40 PM | Break |
| 1:45 - 2:30 PM | Team Round |
| 2:40 - 3:40 PM | Guts Round |
| 3:40 - 4:20 PM | Fun Round + Tiebreakers |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Awards Ceremony |
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact the Montgomery Blair math team captains at , or our coach, Jeremy Schwartz, at . We look forward to seeing you and your Mathletes at this year's MBMT!