COMAP will hold two panel discussion groups to introduce the ICME audience to the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM²C) and describe what it means for mathematics education from the perspective of its organizers, student team members, faculty advisors, math educators, and policy makers.

Discussion Group: Assessing mathematical modelling tasks in the era of AI
Panelists: Rachael Whitney-Smith, Benjamin Galluzzo, Kristy Osborne, Tan Liang Soon, Peter Galbraith

Discussion Group: Mathematical Modelling as a Transformational Tool, IM²C as a Catalyst for Change
Panelists: Jill Brown, Angeles Dominguez Cuenca, Benjamin Galluzzo, Solomon Garfunkel, Irene Ferrando Palomares, Frederick Leung, Kristy Osborne

Mini-Symposium: Mathematical Modeling: Contests, Courses, and Resources

Speakers will share about their experiences participating in COMAP’s MCM and ICM contests, the various levels of mathematical modeling courses they have developed for undergraduates, the ways they have integrated modeling into other courses, and they will share resources that others could use to do the same.

• Catherine Roberts (COMAP): Using COMAP’s Mathematical Modeling Resources in Undergraduate Mathematics Courses
• Allison Lewis (Lafayette College): Designing Open-Ended Modeling Projects to Balance Skill Assessment and Student Creativity
• Kayla Blyman (Saint Martin’s University, ICM Contest Director): Writing and Broadly Applying Mathematical Modeling Contest Problems
• Students from Pacific Lutheran University: A Student Perspective on Modeling the UN Sustainable Development Goals: COMAP ICM 2023 Problem D

Contributed Paper Session: Environmental Science for Mathematics Students

Sustainability of our world and resources is one of the largest issues facing humanity. Environmental Mathematics serves to help understand many of the systems and understand critical features needed to analyze intervention strategies. Many professionals have found new and innovative ways to bring this topic to their students and we want to hear about it. This session welcomes talk proposals for natural resource modeling, sustainability, and climate science used in the classroom or for student research projects. We would particularly enjoy hearing how innovative research ideas translate into learning experiences for students.

Organizers:
Amanda Beecher, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Eric Marland, Appalachian State University
Russ deForest, Penn State University
Kevin Murphy, Dominican University
Kayla Blyman, Saint Martin's University

Considered the “premier mathematics education event of the year,” the NCTM Annual Meetings bring together thousands of mathematics educators from all over the world to collaborate, network, learn, and inspire.

COMAP will present two workshops. More details to come.

Organizers:
Catherine Roberts, COMAP
Kayla Blyman, Saint Martin’s University, ICM and MidMCM Director
Ben Galluzzo, Clarkson University, HiMCM Director
Maria Hernandez, NC School of Science and Mathematics

Workshop: A Practical Approach to Incorporating Mathematical Modeling into the Classroom

Mathematical modeling prepares students to navigate complex challenges facing our world, improving communication skills and comfort with ambiguity and complexity. Participants will experience mathematical modeling first-hand. They will be introduced to a wide range of resources to help bring elements of the modeling process into any existing courses.

Organizers:
Catherine Roberts, COMAP
Kayla Blyman, Saint Martin’s University
Shannon Ruth, Gateway Community College

Thursday, March 14, 2024, 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

As an applied mathematician and math modeler, I enjoy open-ended messy problems. After 25 years teaching at the post-secondary level and 7 years leading the American Math Society, I am now privileged to lead the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, a MA-based, 40+ year nonprofit dedicated to providing students & teachers with resources centered around math modeling. This semester, I'm teaching with COMAP materials to get front-line experience. How's it going so far? What are my mid- stream takeaways? How might you access quality materials to bring the real world into your classroom and inspire the next generations of students?

Catherine Roberts, COMAP CEO

Friday January 5, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

COMAP Special Session on Math Modeling Contests: What They Are, How They Benefit, What They Did -- Discussions with the Students and Advisors

Each year, thousands of HS and Undergrad students from around the world compete in COMAP's Math Modeling contests. In this session, you will hear from student teams and their advisors about their experiences. Topics will include how they heard about the contests, the problems they chose, how they prepared and competed in the contests.

Room 105, The Moscone Center

Organizer:
Kayla Blyman, Saint Martin's University

Contacts:
Catherine Roberts, COMAP
Keith Erickson, Georgia Gwinnett College

8:00 a.m.
About the Consortium for Mathematics & Its Applications
Catherine Roberts, COMAP
(1192-10-33913)

9:00 a.m.
Fungi, Trash, Bikes, and Wordle: Remembrance of Models Past
Steven Sofos DiSilvio, Columbia University
Anthony Ozerov, University of California, Berkeley
Leon Zhou, Columbia University
(1192-10-30716)

10:00 a.m.
Preparing Students and Building a Stronger Department Through the COMAP Competition in Mathematical Modeling
Benjamin R S McLaughlin, Asbury University
(1192-10-33319)

11:00 a.m.
100 Hours of MCM/ICM: The Abridged Version
Kayla Blyman, Saint Martin's University
Keith Erickson, Georgia Gwinnett College
(1192-10-33914)

COMAP Panel on Math Modeling Contests: Trends, Topics, and Tips, organized by Kayla Blyman, Saint Martin’s University; Keith Erickson, Georgia Gwinnett College, and Catherine Roberts, COMAP, Friday, 3:00–4:30 p.m. Math modeling problems and contests challenge students to apply their educational experiences and knowledge as part of a team to solve real-world problems. This panel will discuss the current trends we are seeing when it comes to math modeling competitions. They will discuss some recent topics and some of the innovative approaches that students have taken. There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the panelists.

Room 304, The Moscone Center

COMAP Workshop: Become a COMAP MCM/ICM Judge: Who, What, When, Where, & Why, organized by Kayla Blyman, Saint Martin’s University, and Keith Erickson, Georgia Gwinnett College, Friday, 4:30–5:30 p.m. In this judge training workshop, members of COMAP’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) leadership teams will explain the judging process for the MCM and ICM contests. Participants will receive the information and training they need to sign up and be successful as a triage judge for the contests. Note: This session is not relevant to undergraduates or graduate students in their first two years of graduate study.

Marriot Marquis, Foothill C

COMAP Workshop on Modeling for Educators: Introducing Students to Modeling in Your Classroom, organized by Ben Galluzzo, Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications and Clarkson University, and Adewale Adeolu, Clarkson University; Saturday, 1:00–5:00 p.m. This workshop will explore a variety of activities for introducing mathematical modeling in any mathematics course. This hands-on session will provide participants with the opportunity to build a model in M2Studio, a novel online environment for learning modeling, identify ways to utilize COMAP contest problems in class, and highlight the curricular uses of existing models. Numerous resources will be shared.

Room 202, The Moscone Center