2026 Spring - Mustang Math x Motor City Math Club - Middle

Welcome to the Spring Edition of the 2026 Motor City Math Challenge!

Last fall, our first ever MCMC was a resounding success, smashing our capacity of over 130 driven students. Now, we're back and ready to provide an engaging competition experience for age groups that are often underrepresented in the competitive math community. Keeping in mind all we've learned and the heart-warming community response, we've decided to partner with partner with Mustang Math, a national organization with enormous experience with middle school mathematics. Our mission is, and always will be, to propel the young generations of Michigander mathletes to glory at the national level, but right now, we are asking you to join us on April 11th, to go, as Buzz Lightyear says in Toy Story, to infinity and beyond!

Registration

Link: https://comp.mt/student/1/33

Cost: $15 per student (by March 11th)

$20 by March 28th

Team size: 4 students (It is advantageous for teams to have 4 students)

• If your team doesn't have four students, then you can use the Team Finder spreadsheet to form a team. You can also register an incomplete team (<4 students) on Comp and let Mustang Math to try to form a team.

Instructions:

1. Create a coach account (only one needed per team), and complete email verification.

2. Click Create Organization. Enter your team's name here.

3. Click on Go to Host under Mustang Math and choose MMT 2026 Michigan

4. Submit Registration form

5. Create Team and Purchase Tickets for your students

   1. If you have an incomplete team select Yes for this question when creating your team: If you are an individual or incomplete team, would you like to be joined with other individuals/incomplete teams to make a more complete team?

6. Have your students create Student Accounts on Comp and send them your Organization Join Code for them to join your organization.

7. Once students have joined your organization, assign them to your team.

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Format:

April 5th - April 10th:

• Problem of The Day (POTD)

  • The week before competition day, a question will be released each day on comp (the registration website). These are to be done individually. Students will be ranked based on time and accuracy.

April 11th:

• Mounting Mayhem

  • Puzzles

  • 15 minutes to learn rules, then 60 minutes to solve logic puzzles

• Herding Hexes

  • Questions laid out on a grid of connected hexagons, with more difficult problems being located furthest from the center.

  • 26 questions in 45 minutes

• Mystery Mare 

  • Rules revealed on competition day

• Relay Rodeo

  • The questions will be divided into 4 sets of 4 questions each, and team members will each be assigned one problem in each set, where the answer to the first question is used to answer the second question, and so on.

  • All four sets will be happening at once, so each member of each team will receive exactly four questions to complete.

  • 16 questions in 45 minutes