1, team up

Team building is the most important and basic part of the model contest, because after all, it is a team competition, which tests teamwork ability. The division of labor, contribution of ideas and work efficiency of each member largely determine whether and how the competition can be completed. The modeling process in just three days is bound to be full of difficulties, and problems such as incomprehensible problems, confused models, unsolvable models and poor results of solved models will always revolve around it.

2. Learning model

We can learn about classic models, modeling methods and programming methods through some modeling books or modeling courses offered by schools.

Because there are so many models in mathematics, it is difficult to master every model before the competition. We can try our best to have a certain understanding of most of the classic models, and understand the scope of application, general thinking methods and steps of these models, so that after seeing the topic analysis in the actual competition, we can quickly know what model or similar model to use and how much time it takes.

Step 3 read the newspaper

The final result of the competition is a paper, so team members need to read the excellent papers of previous years, especially the first prize papers, learn their typesetting, writing and thinking logic, see how they simplify their assumptions from given problems, and finally establish a model to solve the model. At the same time, you can also exercise the team's ability to understand words by looking at the papers, so that you can quickly understand the competition topics when you participate in the competition.

4. Learning software

There is usually a classmate who is very good at programming in the modeling competition team, because data processing is very complicated and cannot be solved by simple manual calculation. The commonly used modeling software is MATLAB and Python, and Excel can also be used if necessary.

5. Understand the competition style and scoring standards.

As the saying goes, "know yourself and know yourself" is very important for the model contest, the result is very important and the content is also very important. After the results of the annual competition and the winners' list are announced, the Organizing Committee of the National Games will also announce the reference answers and grading standards of the competition questions of that year in official website. Studying the grading standards carefully and mastering the characteristics of competition style and questions will also help you to build a model and write a paper in the next competition.