Math Modelling

Kurukshetra, Day two -

First round, 3:00 p.m.

I was busy with Alcatraz, so couldn't help much with this on the spot. But I helped with framing some of the questions. The sponsor Hey Math! were a group of fun people , who insisted that the questions must be framed in a humorous way. And the question paper did turn out to be fun as we expected. There was a decent show up. Close to 150-175 teams. Correcting the math modeling papers was a joy compared to Alcatraz, as we just had to take most of the papers from the uncorrected bunch and turn the pages and place it on the corrected bunch. The questions were of a high standard. Maybe many teams found it difficult, but we had to (a) maintain the standard of Kurukshetra and (b) select really good teams for the finalists (also making our job easier). In other words, the teams who got selected for the finals really deserved it. The people from Hey Math! were really overwhelmed by the particiaption and had the opportunity to film the entire event.

Kurukshetra, Day three -

Second Round, 11:00 a.m.

The no.of questions were lesser (four) than the prelims but the same time was given. The questions were interesting. There was one on proving the result of a vedic math method, one on functions etc. But don't know what the reason was, (maybe the teams started thinking too much), except for the winner, no one had tried obvious methods for proofs like induction, binomial expansion etc. While we were correcting the papers, the Head of Chennai, Hey Math!, interacted with the participants about their interests in Math and what they would like to do after college. At the end, after announcing the results and giving mementos to the sponsors, we were asked to say a few words as organisers, on camera. Over-all it was a fun event to organise.