How to use math modeling to engage students
At a Glance: The U.S. has stagnated in how many students are proficient in mathematics on international assessments. The cause for this may be in how we structure our mathematics instruction by...
New Competitions in the ICS Database
With the start of the new year, our research team did a deep dive into the inter-webs to find competitions that are not yet in our database. And we found quite a few! For this round of updates we...
Math Challenges for the Spring Semester
The new year is upon us and the excitement in the academic competitions world couldn’t be higher. However, we know that with the start of the spring semester, many students feel like it's too late...
Academic competitions to join in the new year.
Although the end of the calendar year is near and many schools are getting ready to close up for the winter holidays, the world of academic competitions is in full swing! Many competitions have their...
Modeling the Future 2019-20 Qualifying Teams Announced
170 teams from across the country challenged themselves with qualifying scenarios in the 2019-20 MTF Challenge. This past week The Actuarial Foundation announced the 98 teams that qualified for the...
Changing the Debate: are academic debate competitions needing an update?
Competitive debate has been a mainstay of many schools for decades. With multiple speech and debate programs available to students at a national scale, and hundreds of thousands of students...
