UW Math Olympiad @ Math-M-Addicts

The inaugural UW Math Olympiad @ Math-M-Addicts was held on June 7, 2026 at the Speyer School.

UWMO @ MMA is an oral math competition for 6th and 7th-grade students.

The competition was made possible through a close collaboration between us (Math-M-Addicts) and the University of Washington Math Circle, hosts of the UW Math Olympiad since 2010.  We gratefully acknowledge their partnership.

We are also deeply grateful to all the volunteers - judges, proctors, and helpers - whose dedication helped make this event a reality. 

This unique oral math competition challenged participants to solve 5-7 problems over three hours, presenting their solutions verbally to our volunteer judges.

Congratulations to everyone who participated, and a special round of applause to our winners:

And thank you once again to everyone who helped make this inaugural contest a success.

A sample problem from this year's contest:

There are 26 people standing in a line. Alex is at the front of the line and Zachary is at the end of the line. Everyone has at least 13 friends among the other people in the line. Prove that it is always possible to find two people next to each other in the line so that the person who is closer to the front of the line is friends with Zachary and the person closer to the end of the line is friends with Alex.