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除COMAP举办的MCM外，另一个由U of Iowa举办的美大学生数模竞赛MMMC（附08年赛题）

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下面给出了2008年他们的竞赛题目，有兴趣的同学可以看看

Contest Overview
This new regional math contest gives undergraduate students the opportunity to apply their math skills to real world problems. In teams of three, students will have 23 hours to develop and test a model and write a one-page summary of their findings; an additional (24th) hour will be available in order for teams to finalize a 10 minute presentation explaining their result. Soon after completing their presentation, teams will present their findings to other student MMMC participants. The event will conclude with an award ceremony that will highlight the work of winning teams as determined by students and advisors.

Why the MMMC?
COMAP's Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) successfully encourages teamwork, creativity and written exposition. However, one (logistically necessary) element that many students remark is lacking from this competition is adequate feedback -- both from the micro perspective "What do the judges really think of my team's paper?" to the macro " How did other teams answer this question?" This contest was designed in response to the afforementioned student concerns and has been developed to meet the following objectives:

Encourage independent thinking.
Promote collaboration.
Develop mathematical communication abilities.
Prepare student teams to participate in the MCM.
Create a unique mathematical community.

MMMC 2008 a Success!

Thirteen teams representing five schools (Coe College, Cornell College, The University of Iowa, UW-La Crosse, and Simpson College) participated in the inaugural MMMC with all teams turning in a one-page summary and giving a 10-minute presentation. A panel comprised of faculty and graduate students from the participating schools judged one-page summary submissions. In addition to providing general feedback to all participants, this panel assigned each paper one of the following designations: participant, good, very good, and superior; two teams from the University of Iowa were chosen as ‘superior’.

Teams presented their results in one of three concurrent sessions to an audience consisting of fellow participants, graduate students, junior faculty members (from the participating schools as well as from Augustana College and UW-Plateville) and a senior faculty member. Each group received individualized feedback from the group of more experienced mathematicians immediately following their respective session. However, student votes determined which teams would present their findings a second time in front of the whole group. Teams from UW-La Crosse, Coe College, and Simpson College were selected as finalists, with the team from Coe chosen (by student participants) as the top team.

Results from a participant survey were strongly in favor of the format, especially the presence of teams from other schools as many participants strongly agreed that they gained insight and perspective from their fellow contestants. Students responded less favorably to the suggestion that, instead of schools submitting teams, schools should submit individuals and teams should consist of students from multiple schools. Overall student response was nearly unanimous in saying that they would participate in the MMMC again and that the weekend was fun.