Livingston Math Team Places First Out of Over 500 Teams in Prestigious Competition
By MICHELLE BENT, LPS
May 15, 2021 at 12:04 AM
Livingston students Aditya Desai, Sidhant Srivastava, Leo Stepanewk, Edward Wang and Charles Yu place first out of more than 500 teams in 2021 MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge
Livingston students Aditya Desai, Sidhant Srivastava, Leo Stepanewk, Edward Wang and Charles Yu .
Credits: Livingston Public Schools
May 15, 2021 at 12:04 AM
LIVINGSTON, NJ Five Livingston High School students from Cheryl Coursen s Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus BC and Multivariable Calculus classes including Aditya Desai, Sidhant Srivastava, Leo Stepanewk, Edward Wang and Charles Yu recently placed first out of more than 500 teams in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3) competition and will receive a $22,500 scholarship prize.
Once again, students from Pine View School finished ahead of most students their age in mathematics.
A team of five students ended up in the top 10 teams nationwide in the MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge, which challenges students to use math modeling to solve a global issue.
Each year, Pine View teacher Mark Mattia creates two teams of five students each to compete.
“We’re taking the students that are highly intrinsically motivated,” Mattia said. “If they’re doing this, it’s not for the scholarships that they can receive. It’s because they’re interested in it. This is what they do.”
Lincolnshire high school math teams compete for international recognition
FOX 32 s Joanie Lum reports.
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. - A north suburban high school is sending its brightest to a worldwide academic competition.
It is a math test with results that can help a lot of people.
The students applied advance mathematics to a simple, yet common problem: weak Wi-Fi.
It’s this year’s Mathworks Math Modeling Challenge, an international competition for high schoolers.
A bad internet connection can limit access and diminish education. Calculus can solve that.
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Spandan Goel, a junior at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, said, Once you look at the problem to form solutions, based on the data you have, the toolkit you have, you can come up with elegant ideas that can be foundational for a lot of solutions.
A team of Upper St. Clair High School students recently earned honorable mention overall and an honorable mention in the category of technical computing in the MathWorks Math Modelingâ¯(M3) Challenge.
Seniors Alex Carlson, Christian Chiu, Harrison Chui, Jack Myers and Sophia Shi will receive a $1,000 scholarship to be split equally.
âOf the 535 papers submitted in this yearâs MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge, your teamâs solution has been selected to receive one of 35 honorable mention awards. You should be very proud of this distinction, especially given the rigorous and intense scrutiny that each paper endured,â said Adrianne Ali, a representative from M3 Challenge. âOnly about 9 percent of the submitted papers were selected for prize recognition.â