Greater boston Mathematics League (gBML)

High School mathematics League Competition

in the Greater Boston Area

GBML 2021 - 2022 Proposed Schedule

Given the continued uncertainty involving the Coronavirus and how it will affect schools during the 2021-2022 school year, it was decided that the GBML will take place this year in a remote setting. This will eliminate the need for teams to travel to other schools to compete. See below for the details regarding how we will conduct our meets.  

  • October 13 – 14, 2021
  • *November 10 – 11, 2021
  • December  8 -9, 2021 
  • January 12 – 13, 2022
  • February 9 – 10, 2022
*Since November 11 is Veteran’s Day, your team may do the meet on any day during November 8th – 12th that works for your school.
If your school would like to do it the following week, please contact Michael Curry.

Note, since it is highly unlikely that all schools will be available at the same time on a particular day, we are allowing the home administration of the meet to take place on either of the two days (Wednesday or Thursday in most cases).

Administration of the Meet in a Remote Setting

The materials for the meet will be distributed on the Monday of the week that the meet is scheduled to take place. It will be the responsibility of the coach of each team to administer the meet to your own students. The following bulleted list contains the parameters that need to be followed and the methods that are recommended.

  •  All competing students on a particular team must participate in the meet on the same day.  We cannot allow some students from one team to participate on Wednesday and the other students to take the meet on Thursday.
  • Your team can compete, in person, in your own building, while observing social distancing protocols. In this case, the team’s coach will need to make enough copies of the contest materials for all to participate. The meet would need to be administered completely on either the Wednesday or Thursday according to the schedule.
  • Your team can compete remotely. In this case, the coach would need to work out ahead of time how this would take place.  Recommended options include Zoom, WebEx, or Google meets. There are other remote options, but these seem to be the ones in the mainstream. Zoom seems to be the best one.  Students and the proctoring coach would “gather” in a meeting and the coach would provide the password protected file to each competitor. The proctoring coach would then drop the password to the file in the chat area of the Zoom or Webex and start the timer for the round.  The proctor would then announce a 2 minute warning and a 15 second warning as usual. Then pencils down. At the end of the meet, coaches will score the rounds and enter the scores into a google form which will be combined with scores from other schools to from the league tandings.