Math Awareness Month
Integral Bee

Monday, April 16, 2007
7:00 PM, Blocker 158
A contest to determine who can compute integrals fastest. All integrals are at the level of Math 152/172.

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Prizes (besides the honor): copies of Maple 10, T-shirts, books

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Rules

The rules may be modified as we go.
• Qualifying Rounds
  1. Bring paper and pencil.
  2. There will be 5 or 6 rounds. Everyone in the audience will be eligible.
  3. In each round, an integral will be displayed on the overhead screen. You will have a specified amount of time to solve it (e.g. 2 or 4 minutes). At the end of this time, you must be holding your paper above your head, showing your solution and answer. Each participant with a correct answer and solution will receive an Integral Buck (a coupon).
  4. At the end of 5 or 6 rounds, the participants with the most Integral Bucks will become contestants. We will take about 12 undergrads, and 10 grad students and faculty. These contestants will move to the front of the room.
• Elimination Rounds
  1. In each round, between 2 and 12 contestants will be at the white board. An integral will be displayed on the overhead screen. The half of the contestants who correctly compute the integral will continue to subsequent rounds. The half who are slowest will be eliminated.
  2. A 5 minute time limit will be imposed.
  3. Each round (except the last) will consist of only undergrads, or only grad students and faculty.
• Wild Card
  1. During the Elimination Rounds, the first three participants in the audience to compute the integral correctly will receive an Integral Buck.
  2. At the end of the Elimination Rounds, the participant with the most integral bucks will be the Wild Card winner.
  3. Each contestant at the white board who completes the integral, will get an Integral Buck. Each contestant not at the white board will be eligible to be one of the three participants in the audience to receive an Integral Buck.