The North Suburban Math League is a group of schools in the Chicago area that compete in five math competitions throughout the school year.
Welcome to the 2025-2026 Season!
The current president of NSML is Andrew Mauer-Oats, nsml.president@gmail.com. Contact him with administrative issues and urgent concerns.
For problems involving the web site or archives, email the president and send a carbon copy to help@nsml.org.
Quick Links
- Meet Dates.
- Written Topics.
- Oral Presentation Topics.
- Contest Archive. Current coaches only.
- NSML Documents: rules, scripts, etc. Possibly blocked at your school; sorry.
- NSML Assumed Knowledge: facts about combinatorics and probability.
New in 2025-2026
- No calculators for any meet, including no calculators for candy bar.
- Renamed divisions to honor our most recent gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad. Divisions are ordered from most recent IMO alumni to the oldest. Hypenation begins at the oldest.
- A brief history of IMO-medaling NSML alumni contains tiny bios and a few sources.
- Advanced Geometry - assumed background knowledge.
NEWS
- Fall 2024: Krishna Pothapragada, an NSML alum from Naperville North, earned a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad this summer, contributing the USA first place finish.
Coach Email List
Email lists are currently manually manged. Email nsml.president@gmail.com with names and emails of coaches to add or remove.
Old Notes, Still Useful
- Contestants and alternates should not to be sent to specific rooms. Status will be determined by your online roster.
- Basic Statistics information for coaches, info for Frosh statistics topic from 2022 Meet 1. (Posted 2022-05-08.)