Math is Everywhere
Welcome to Math is Everywhere – The Co-Curricular Project Competition.
Math is Everywhere are college competitions for displaying research projects that contain math content. Usually take place annually in May. Students from across the LaGuardia College in different majors and courses are invited to prepare (under the supervision of their professors) and submit their projects for competition. Math is Everywhere team will support with the Math portion of the project (if needed).
The first Math is Everywhere Interdisciplinary students’ Competition was organized by MEC faculty Dr. Shenglan Yuan in 2015.
Participants are rated on criteria in the following five broad categories:
- Mathematical Content
- Presentation Style
- Clarity and Organization
- Oral Communication
- Written Communication
Using the following rubric marks:
- 4 – Criteria fully met
- 3 – Criteria mostly met
- 2 – Criteria minimally met
- 1 – Criteria barely met
See attached for Details on Categories and Criteria.
Project files are available in this folder.
- Numeracy/Quantitative literacy
- Mathematics in the arts
- Mathematics in music
- Mathematics in poetry
- Math in sports
- Analytical methods that are akin to math
- Any surprising use of mathematics in a non-math field
- Mathematics in the news
- Math in Literature
- Math in movie
- Mathematics of Energy |Faculty Mentors: Malgorzata Marciniak and Benjamin Taylor
- Hidden Math Images| Faculty Mentor: Tao Chen
- Mathematical Concepts in Cell Biology. Advisors: Dr. Maria Entezari and Dr. A. Lucia Fuentes
- The Obsession of Diagnosis| Faculty Mentor: Frank Wang
- Fibonacci Sequences in the Stock Market, in Nature and at LaGuardia! | Faculty Mentors: Steve Cosares and Reem Jaafar
- Mathematical Applications in Food Product Acceptability | Faculty Mentors: Cindy Pierce, Rosann Ippolito Jenny Palios
- Math in Art | Faculty Mentor: Dahlia Elsayed
- Social Networks in Developmental Mathematics | Faculty Mentor: Glenn Henshaw
- Math and Music Faculty Mentors: Tom Dempsey and Nader Goubran
- Calculation of the Terminal Speed of a Skydiver Using a Simplified Model | Faculty Mentor: Xin Gao
- “Examining Trump’s economic proposals” Faculty Mentors: Soloman Kone and Tao Chen
- Moving Object Detection and Tracking through the Camera Faculty Mentors: Luis Rizo and Yun Ye
For more information contact: Lucie Mingla at lmingla@lagcc.cuny.edu.
NYSMATYC
NYSMATYC are state competitions for solving basic math problems. Take place once per semester, usually in November and March.
For more information contact: Dr. Malgorzata Marciniak at mmarciniak@lagcc.cuny.edu.
AMATYC
AMATYC are national competitions of 2-year colleges for solving basic math problems. Take place once per semester, usually in November and March.
For more information contact: Shaoshao Yang at shaoshao.yang87@lagcc.cuny.edu.
Putnam
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition® is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States and Canada. The Putnam Competition takes place annually on the first Saturday of December. The competition consists of two 3-hour sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. During each session, participants work individually on six challenging mathematical problems.
The Putnam began in 1938 as a competition between mathematics departments at colleges and universities. Now, the competition has grown to be the leading university-level mathematics examination in the world. Although participants work independently on the problems, the competition has a team aspect. Prizes are awarded to the participants with the highest scores and to the departments of mathematics of the five institutions, the sum of whose top three scores is the greatest.
More information about the Putnam Competition can be found on the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) webpage. Past Putnam problems and solutions starting from 2017 can be found on the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) Putnam Competition Archive page. This page, maintained by Professor Kiran Kedlaya, contains information and resources on how to prepare for the Putnam Competition. You can also find past Putnam Problems and solutions starting from 1985 here in Professor Kedlaya’s archive.
For more information contact: Dr. Mahdi Majidi-Zolbanin at mmajidi-zolbanin@lagcc.cuny.edu.