MME Information for high school students, Fall 2009
- Program Description
- Important Dates
- Competition Information
- Application (Applications Due Sept. 18th!)
- Frequently Asked Questions
Program Description
Form a Math Modeling team with your friends!
Each week, you'll come to the brand new Mathematical Sciences Building at the UC Davis campus to apply your creative problem-solving skills to real-world scenarios. This year, we'll work on problems like "How fast do diseases really spread? As high school students, do we really need to worry about it?" and "How do cell phones work?"
Students who haven't previously done any math activities, or taken advanced math classes, are encouraged to join the MME, along with more advanced math students. Whatever math you bring with you to the MME, you're guaranteed to learn something new, and to make an important contribution to your team. Besides math knowledge, successful teams have strengths in writing, designing diagrams, and teamwork.
The UC Davis Math Modeling Experience is led by mathematicians who want students to enjoy math and see its connections to the real world. Each week in the MME, you'll also interact with top math majors who are training for the collegiate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, and research faculty will occasionally make guest appearances, to catch you up on their latest innovations. UC Davis computing facilities will also be available to you, and you'll pick up some computer programming skills (or build on what you already know!).
After six weeks of practice, your team will be ready to take on the national High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM), a 36-hour non-stop marathon of thinking and fun! In fall 2004, our team from Davis won top national honors! In fall 2005, our high school team won top California honors, and our college team won top national honors!
Your team could be our next big winner!