The origin and history of mathematical model competition;
Mathematical model competition is a college student competition activity initiated by American Institute of Industrial and Applied Mathematics on 1985. Its purpose is to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning mathematics, improve their comprehensive ability to use computer technology to build mathematical models and solve practical problems, and encourage students to actively participate in extracurricular scientific and technological activities.
Expand knowledge, cultivate innovative spirit and cooperative consciousness, and promote the reform of college mathematics teaching system, teaching content and methods. The National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students is an annual communication competition for colleges and universities nationwide sponsored by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) Mathematical Society.
Knowledge, team spirit, focus on participation and fair competition. 1992 was founded in China. Since its establishment, it has been strongly supported and cared by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and China Industrial and Applied Mathematics Association, showing a rapid development momentum. As far as 2003 is concerned.
The registration stage was definitely affected by SARS, but there were 5406 teams from 637 universities in 30 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) and Hong Kong, and the number of participating universities increased even faster, from 1067 in 2002 to 14 10 in 2003. It can be said that mathematical modeling has become the largest extracurricular scientific and technological activity in colleges and universities in China.