1. Team-building: College students take part in the competition as a team, with 3 people in each team (they must belong to the same school), regardless of their major.

The competition is divided into undergraduate and specialist groups. Undergraduate students participate in undergraduate group competitions, junior college students participate in specialist group competitions (or participate in undergraduate group competitions), and graduate students are not allowed to participate. Each team can have a coach.

2. Problem solving: Competition topics generally come from practical problems that have been properly simplified in engineering technology and management science. Participants are not required to master in-depth professional knowledge in advance, but only need to have studied mathematics courses in colleges and universities. The topic has great flexibility, allowing participants to exert their creative ability.

Participants should complete a paper (that is, an answer sheet) including the hypothesis of the model, the establishment and solution, the design and computer realization of the calculation method, the analysis and test of the results, and the improvement of the model.

Competition awards are based on the rationality of assumptions, the creativity of modeling, the correctness of results and the clarity of text expression.

3. Award setting: The organizing committee of each competition area employs experts to form an evaluation committee to select the first, second and third prizes in this competition area, and the proportion of winning prizes generally does not exceed one third. Successful entries will be awarded to those who complete qualified answers.

Extended data:

Practical problem background

1. It covers a wide range-including society, economy, management, life, environment, natural phenomena, engineering technology, new problems in modern science and so on.

2. Generally, there are more exact practical problems.