About MATHmodels

Mathmodels is COMAP’s new modeling forum. On this site, students and faculty will find a wide range of interesting contemporary modeling problems. Teachers can assign problems. Students can choose to work on problems based on math topic and application area. But most importantly, COMAP has enlisted academics and practitioners to work with you — whether you are a teacher, a student, or a team of students.

These mentors will read and react to your solutions or partial solutions. They will give hints, if appropriate, and tell you if you are on the right track. They are there to help. In many cases, you will be talking with the author of the problem. In all cases, you will be dealing with people with expertise in modeling, who often work on these problems for a living.

We intend Mathmodels to serve as an important new resource to the mathematics community.

For Teachers

• Use the problems in our modeling database to enrich your class or conduct your own math team competitions.
• Submit your own problems to the modeling database and challenge students around the world.
• Discover how our modeling resources can help you use mathematical modeling in your classroom.
• Recruit and advise individual students or a team to work on challenging modeling problems.

For Students

• Work with others in your school and around the world on challenging modeling problems.
• Notify your teachers or professors about this Website and start the modeling tradition at your school.
• Check back here regularly to read the other student solutions that are posted monthly; get helpful hints and feedback from practitioners.
• Use our COMAP resources and modeling problems as quality references for your in-class presentations, extra credit, and other classroom projects.