contemporary undergraduate mathematical contest in modeling

The National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students is a mass scientific and technological activity for college students nationwide, which is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 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, encourage students to actively participate in extracurricular scientific and technological activities, broaden their knowledge, cultivate innovative spirit and cooperative consciousness, and promote the reform of college mathematics teaching system, teaching content and teaching methods. 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 ordinary 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. The national unified competition topic, adopts the communication competition way, carries on in the relatively centralized form; The competition is usually held within three days at the end of September each year; College students participate in the competition in teams of three, regardless of major.