IUPUI High School Math Contest: Solve math problems to win a scholarship and prize money
2025 Contest Material Will be Made Available in Early January 2025
Submission Date: March 24, 2025
Award Ceremony: April 25, 2025
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The award ceremony will take place on the IU Indianapolis campus on April 25th. The exact location will be specified later.
The keynote speaker at the Award Ceremony is Dr. Fumiko Futamura who will give a presentation on “Mathematics and Art”. Dr. Futamura is known for her work on the mathematics of perspective and perspective drawing. She is a professor of mathematics at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where she holds the Lord Chair in Mathematics and Computer Science. You can find some of her mathematics and art work on her website http://www.fumikofutamura.com. Dr. Futamura has given a TED Ed talk on “The mathematics of Sidewalk Illusions”.
Prizes
$300 and a full four-year academic tuition scholarship (first place)
$200 and a $2,500 per year scholarship for four years (each second place, up to five total)
$100 and a $2,500 per year scholarship for four years (each third place, up to ten total)
In order to receive the scholarship, the winner must be directly admitted to the IU Indianapolis School of Science and be a full-time major in any discipline within the School.
Scholarships in the amount of $2,500 per year will be awarded to the remaining cash prize winners who are directly admitted to the School of Science and attend full time. These scholarships are renewable for four years, given satisfactory academic performance. Winners may receive only one scholarship from the School of Science for winning the contest, but are still eligible for other campus-based scholarships.
How the contest works
Questions are meant to be difficult, often requiring several attempts. However, they can be solved using high school math problem solving skills. Each year, there is also an essay question on contest’s theme.
Students do not need to complete every question to compete. In fact, two or three elegant solutions often results in a winning entry.
Students work on the questions independently (for individual competition) and in groups (for team competition). IUPUI faculty and graduate students volunteer over 20 hours to judge all entries based on the following criteria:
A student's method of finding the solution
Correctness of solution
Elegance of solution.
Winners and participants are invited to campus for the award ceremony on April 12th.
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