Hillhouse's recent math modeling results
In October 2024, Hillhouse students participated in the global High School Mathematical Modeling Contest. Out of over a thousand teams from more than twenty regions, seventeen teams from Canada won awards. Our Hillhouse high school students achieved Meritorious results, ranking third among the 17 winning Canadian high schools . Our middle school students, making their debut, received the Successful Participant award, laying a foundation for continued participation the following year. The High School Mathematical Modeling Contest (HiMCM) provides participants with significant career development opportunities. This highly prestigious international competition challenges students' ability to apply mathematical modeling to real-world problems, cultivating essential skills needed in academic and professional settings.
Mathematical modeling competitions cultivate students' comprehensive abilities to adapt to the AI era.
The High School Mathematical Modeling Contest (HiMCM) and Mid-MCM help students develop several important skills and provide participants with significant career development opportunities. Students use mathematical modeling to solve real-world problems, skills that are valuable for academic, professional, and personal growth . For example, they are very important for university applications in the US, Canada, and the UK , as well as for seeking internships .
The most important skill in training:
1. Mathematical Modeling: Learning to apply mathematical concepts to create models to solve open-ended, real-world challenging problems. This skill is crucial for data-driven fields like artificial intelligence and machine learning.
2. Critical thinking and problem-solving: Students need innovative methods and logical reasoning to solve unstructured problems.
3. Communication and Collaboration: The team model emphasizes the importance of effective collaboration, where team members contribute their strengths to achieve common goals.
4. Expression and Writing: Write clear, concise, and detailed reports to improve the ability to effectively present complex ideas.
5. Creativity and Innovation: The openness of the problem encourages creative thinking and innovative solutions.
6. Time Management: Effectively manage time within a two-week period, balancing research, modeling, testing, and report writing.
7. Practical Application: Students combine classroom learning with practical applications, such as optimizing systems or solving social problems.
In summary, it places high demands on students' mathematical abilities, data analysis skills, programming skills, modeling thinking, and writing. It is a test of students' comprehensive abilities.
Hillhouse coaching experience
Analysis of winning papers from previous competitions:
Before the competition, Hillhouse's research team, drawing on years of experience in mathematical modeling competitions, read award-winning papers from recent years to grasp the trends in competition questions and modeling approaches. They were ahead of the curve, making thorough preparations well in advance.
Pre-competition modeling coaching:
Before the competition, Hillhouse selected past exam questions based on students' abilities and interests, and guided them through the analysis of modeling approaches. These approaches stemmed from Hillhouse's years of experience in mathematical modeling competitions, covering the entire process from problem analysis to model building, solving, and verification.
Comprehensive academic support:
As the complexity and difficulty of solving mathematical models increase, mathematical modeling not only tests the application of mathematical skills, but also requires programming verification for a large number of models. Hillhouse teachers not only provide tutoring in mathematical modeling and creative English writing, but also have extensive experience in programming. They have helped first-year humanities students apply for research assistant positions in Google's AI department and helped 11th-grade high school students secure internships at AI companies. By combining creative English writing with AI algorithms and mathematical models, they help students complete competitions to a high standard.
