MCM: The Mathematical Contest in Modeling
ICM: The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling
HiMCM: The High School Contest in Modeling

Undergraduate Contests

ICM

The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) is an international contest for high school students and college undergraduates. ICM is designed to develop and advance interdisciplinary problem-solving skills as well as competence in written communication. The interdisciplinary problem has changed its emphasis from strictly environmental issues to reflect a quantitative situation in mathematics; operations research; systems engineering; information, industrial or physical security; or resource and environment protection and management. Your institution may be part of the ICM effort by encouraging a member of your department to serve as a faculty advisor and by promoting the participation of faculty and students from associated departments. Advisors help organize the teams, distribute contest materials, and return solution papers to COMAP. For more information click here.

Highschool Contests

HiMCM

The HiMCM is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work as a team in a contest that will stimulate and improve their mathematical problem-solving proficiency as well as develop their writing skills. The competition takes place with teams consisting of up to, but no more than, four students working on a real-world problem in a consecutive thirty-six-hour period. Teams are allowed to work on the contest problem at any local facility. Each team has a faculty advisor to guide them and submit their work. Papers are submitted to COMAP for judging by a panel of mathematics educators. For more information click here.

Contests Resources

The Modeling Resource CD-ROM offers mathematical modeling problems, sample solutions, and other resources suitable for instructors and students in modeling courses, advisors and team members in modeling competitions, and those who want to make mathematics courses more relevant. The problems are taken from the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, (ICM), the High School Contest in Modeling (HiMCM), and the Consortium column Everybody's Problems. For more information click here.

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