Moody S Mega Math Challenge

Academic quizzes and educational contests are a great way to make students learn their subjects thoroughly. Whether it’s a science modeling contest or a math test or a painting competition it always give the students a great opportunity to learn their subjects well and to test their skills too. Such city or state level competitions can also help the students boost their confidence and inter-personal skills. A greater objective which could be achieved from such competitions is that it engages the participants in a healthy mental activity.

Moody’s Mega Math Challenge is one of such competitions which is organized every year for high school juniors and seniors. Moody’s Mega Math Challenge is an applied mathematics modeling challenge and is open to all high school juniors and seniors of East Coast, from Maine to Florida. Moody’s Mega Math Challenge is sponsored by The Moody’s Foundation and its organizers are the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). SIAM is based in Philadelphia.

This year more than 2,884 juniors and senior students of East Coast high schools will be eligible to participate in Moody’s Mega Math Challenge and be able to share the scholarship prizes of $100,000.

The rules at Moody’s Mega Math Challenge are simple. The Moody’s Mega Math Challenge participating teams can download the question problem on Saturday or Sunday March 6/7 at 7 am in the morning and can use help from publicly available resources. The Moody’s Mega Math Challenge participants will have to make assumptions, develop a model for the problem, and write their response after analyzing their findings. They can upload the response on the website of Moody’s Mega Math Challenge before 9 pm the same day.

The winners and the top teams will be announced at the awards ceremony of the Moody’s Mega Math Challenge.

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