2026 Contest Information

The 2026 Math Contest will be held ONLINE on Saturday, January 31, 2026. The contest is FREE and is open to all high school and middle school students. Students are permitted to take the contest exams at home on their own computers.

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• Registration is open! Visit our Registration Info page for detailed instructions.
• Be sure to read the detailed Exam Instructions; much of this information will not be presented on the day of the exam.
• Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will regrettably not be offering the Number Sense contest this year. We still plan to administer the other eight individual exams as well as the SmackDown elimination competition.
• Be sure to read the Calculator & Technology Policy for further clarification about the types of tools that are and are not permitted to be used during contest exams. AI technology such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, and other LLMs (large language models) are NOT permitted to be used on any portion of the UH Contest exams. Also prohibited are similar math-specific tools including, but not limited to: Mathway, Photomath, MathPapa, QuickMath, and Math Solver – which either give step-by-step instructions or step-by-step solutions, or give an immediate answer when multiple steps are being computed in the background of the tool. Wolfram Alpha is also NOT permitted.
• 1/27/26 update: The Rounding Instructions have been updated to state that for multiple-choice questions, students should simply choose the best answer and then type 1 for A, 2 for B, 3 for C, 4 for D, 5 for E, or 6 for F. (No rounding rules are needed for multiple-choice questions unless indicated in the problem.) The rounding rules apply for questions which are not multiple choice.
• 1/24/26 update: The contest demonstration video is now available, as well as the practice contest!
  
  • Contest Demonstration Video
  • Practice Contest
    The practice contest can be taken every 30 minutes, according to the following schedule.
    
• 1/22/26 update: Additional screenshots of the autopresenter (the platform used for all exams except for SmackDown) have been added to the Exam Instructions page.

Click on the links below and at the left to learn more about our FREE annual contest.
Contest Schedule
Contest Prizes
Contest Enrollment Rules
Calculator & Technology Policy
Rounding Instructions
Exam Content Information
The Contest Point System

The Smackdown (Exciting Elimination Round). Also check out a recording of our 2024 SmackDown, courtesy of first-place winner Eric Li of Elkins High School!



We are working on a contest demonstration video and plan to post it soon along with a practice contest