Established in 2012, the Math Circle Competition Team (MCCT) meets weekly on LSU's campus to practice for national-level high school math and coding competitions.
Our competition team at Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, Nov 2018.
The team practices every Sunday and is the only national-level math competition team in Louisiana. Math Circle helps to subsidize competition expenses like travel and housing, minimizing per student cost of tournament attendance.
Math practice is held every Sunday from 1:30-3:30 PM. Please note that due to the current pandemic, practices will be held virtually via Zoom.
MCCT focuses on preparing 8th-12th grade students for the American Mathematics Competition and engaging students in higher level mathematics! Click on the pdf to learn more about our competition team, including many resources for self-study and a list of notable competitions.
At each MCCT practice, students study and follow along notes written by our MCCT Staff and Instructors. These handouts contains problems that students can expect to see at competitions as well as links to additional resources on the content. Notes written for MCCT can be found at the PDF provided below.
We compete in the American Mathematics Competition, Harvard-MIT Math Tournament, Berkeley Math Tournament, and more!
Upcoming Competitions
Many mathematics and coding competitions are online and free. Join in on the fun by registering for one of the competitions below!
(For 2020-2021, MCCT will compete only in virtual competitions)
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Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament: November 14-21
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American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 10/12B: Feb 10, 2021
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Carnegie Mellon Math and Informatics Competition (CMIMC): TBA
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LSU Mathematics Contests: TBA
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Berkeley Mathematics Tournament (BMT): TBA
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Purple Comet Math Meet: April 6, 2021, online, FREE
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American Regional Mathematics League (ARML): TBA
Please refer to the Open House Packet for a more complete list of competitions to compete in.
Find out how you can earn points for your team in USMCA's National Circuit.
Attend HMMT with us to explore MIT and Harvard before applying!
HMMT Nov. 2020 will take place November 14-21, 2020/
With 900 participants, HMMT is one of the largest on-site math contests in the United States. It is run exclusively by Harvard and MIT students, and regularly fields hundreds of top teams from the US and abroad.
The AMC 10/12 will take place on February 4 and 10, 2021.
The American Mathematics Competition is one of the most widely-known national math competitions, and is the first in a series of tests to determine the US team for the International Math Olympiad. Students who score highly on the AMC advance to the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME) in March.
MCCT will proctor AMC 10/12 B for 2021!
CMIMC 2021 TBA
The Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition is one of the first math competitions to also include computer science in its competition, and it's run exclusively by CMU students. The computer science round is designed to have no programming knowledge required.
ARML 2021 TBA
The American Regions Mathematics League competition is an annual high school math tournament held simultaneously at four different sites in the US. The tournament regularly fields over 100 top math teams, both nationally and internationally.
BMT 2020 took place on October 4, 2020
The Berkeley Math Tournament is another highly prestigious math competition for high schoolers, run exclusively by Berkeley students.
BMT 2021 has not been released yet.