The South Windsor High School Math Team’s first meeting, hosted by Coach Brindisi, was held on Friday, September 19, 2025, at 2:15 PM in room 265 to provide students with the necessary information about the team for this year.
The South Windsor High School Math Team has been outstanding for the last several years. The team has thrived since the 1980s, and Mr. Brindisi has been coaching the Math Team since 2013.
The Math Team practices after school on three Fridays a month. The League Meets usually occur on the second Wednesday of the month from October to March.
The Math Team season begins in October, and typically ends with the state meet at the start of April. However, the New England Meet sometimes occurs at the end of April.
The Math Team consists of an A-team and a B-team. Students who attend as many practices and meets as possible are especially considered for the A-team. Students who want to compete but cannot attend all practices will be placed on the B-team. They are still welcome to attend the practices they are able to make.
“The Math Team interested me and seems like a fun way to do competitive math,” freshman Arnav Malpure told The Prowl.
About 40 students at South Windsor High School sign up for the Math Team, with about 25–30 people competing at some point during the season.
The South Windsor High School Math Team competes against other schools in six meets a year held by the Capital Area Math League. Students earn points by solving challenging math problems covering a wide variety of subjects. The mathematical subjects include arithmetic, algebra, probability, statistics, trigonometry, and geometry. Students are never allowed to use a calculator or other tools for the Math Team; they can only use a pencil and their brain.
In the competitions, there are three questions per round, with ten minutes allowed to answer them. You earn 1 point for the first correct answer, 2 points for the second, and 3 points for the third. Competitors will receive a two-minute warning and a fifteen-second warning during the competition.
Last year, the league had about 23 competing teams, including South Windsor, Southington, Wolcott, Suffield, Glastonbury, Wethersfield, Berlin, Rockville, Avon, and New Britain.
“Following last year’s state championship, we had a lot of new students show up to the first meeting,” sophomore Girish Prasad said. “We did lose some strong seniors, but we’ve still got a solid group this year that can turn our championship into a streak.”
Throughout the season, members who qualify have other opportunities to compete, including the New England Meet, the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) Meet, and the Connecticut State Meet.
