Math Bowl Competition
We will have games and activities available from 4:00 to 6:00 in the Mathematics building. Pizza will be provided at 6:00 for all Math Bowl competitors. The Math Bowl competition will begin at 6:30.
Register your Math Bowl team now! Deadline for Math Bowl registration is March 10th.
General Ground Rules
- Teams consist of 2 to 5 undergraduate students
- Phones are not allowed in the mathematics bowl competition rooms. Anyone (including audience members) found using a phone in the competition room will be asked to leave
- Each team member will be required to give their phone to staff members before the competition and will receive them at the conclusion of the competition
- Calculators are allowed, and recommended, for the competition.
Competition Specific Information
- This year’s mathematics bowl questions cover content from a variety of freshman and sophomore courses in undergraduate mathematics such as linear algebra, calculus, basic statistics and mathematics history.
- Teams will have 60 seconds to submit an answer for each question. The timer will initiate as soon as the question is displayed.
Correct answers are worth a maximum of 3 points, and that score is reduced based on how much time it takes to submit the answer. An incorrect answer, or no answer, will award 0 points.
- The score for each correctly answered question is calculated by 3*((60-t)/60) where ‘t’ is the amount of time in seconds it takes for a team to submit a correct answer.
- Only one answer can be submitted, no replacement. Be sure of your initial submission.