The Math Modeling Course at MAMS taught by Mrs. Burns challenges students to unlock a unique perspective on mathematics. Students are provided with challenging problems that are purposefully left rather open-ended, inviting them to put many different areas of their previous math knowledge together to approach the problem. During this class, we worked in collaborative environments to solve problems of various lengths, backgrounds, and difficulties.
The annual High School Mathematical Competition in Modeling, or HiMCM for short, is a 48-hour math competition for high school students, where students are given the choice of one of two problems to solve using any resources, techniques, and approaches they like. I competed in this fun and intense problem with Sasha Nandyala and Keira Reid, and we chose a problem on modeling a city switching to electric buses for transportation. We had a blast! Stay tuned to see our solution provided here once the results of the competition have been posted!
Given the date on which someone was born, can you figure out what day of the week they were born? “Well Jared, that’s easy, let me just pull up my ca-” Oh, I forgot to mention–no calendars allowed!! For this problem, Abhinav Sharma, Gustavo Rodriguez, Megan Ashun, and I were challenged to create a service that outputs the day of the week given the month, day, and year in which someone was born. Despite our simplistic approach to the problem, I am very proud to say we developed a comprehensible and effective solution! If you want to try to plug in your birthdate to see if the pr ogram is right, you can scroll down to page 8 in the document and see the “Solution with Instructions” section.
This challenge introduced our class to the world of actuaries and data science. For this project, my team, Adnan Dembele, Massimo Grisanti, Dylan Whiting, Justin Keyo, and I (Team name “Actuary the Best”) were challenged to brainstorm and create an actuarial model for a real-world problem, considering potential risks and exposures associated with our problem. Our group chose to investigate airplane flight overbooking as our problem. Although the development of the actuarial model is currently under development, you can see our project planning and proposal here.