Recommended books: mathematical modeling algorithm and its application. The author and leading team of this book have won the Higher Education Club Cup two or three times, and the book compiled should also be of great reference value.
Read a national newspaper:
The only form of competition results is papers, so you need to read more excellent competition papers in previous years (the first paper in China). Learn their writing language, paper format and some habits. And how to simplify the hypothesis from practical problems and deduce the final mathematical model step by step.
According to the grading standard of a certain year, the overview of the paper is the first level of screening the paper. If you can't pass the first level, no matter how good the content is, you won't even get the third place. Good layout gives people a pleasing feeling.
Recommended books: Selected Papers and Comments of Mathematical Modeling Competition, Northwestern Polytechnical University Press. Compilation of outstanding papers in the national mathematical modeling competition for college students
Carefully select players:
On the one hand, they can live in harmony in character, otherwise there will be many contradictions during the competition; On the other hand, it is best to complement each other professionally. If the whole team can find a topic before the game and simulate the game for a few days, it should gain a lot, in terms of time arrangement and cooperation between players.
If you want to choose your team members more carefully, you'd better get above average grades, because they care about learning very much and have strong learning ability, but they won't be too rigid about studying in class; It is best to choose people who have competition experience and won certain awards, and are familiar with them.
Learning related software:
It is enough to learn Matlab, which can realize all the functions needed for mathematical modeling. Excel can also be competent for some problems. C language can also be competent for most programming problems. Of course, if you really have the spare capacity, you can learn special statistical software such as SPSS or SAS, and drawing software such as Surfer. These softwares are more convenient to use and draw beautifully in statistics or drawing.
Understand the competitive style:
For the national competition, the result is very important, and the integrity of the content is also very important; For the United States, the result is not important at all, and it doesn't matter if it can't be done. The most important thing is "innovation". For top players, this is nothing; But for most teams, time is very tight. If you want to get the best results in a limited time, you must choose between them.
Research scoring criteria:
Awards are ranked according to scores, and scores are based on scoring standards. By studying the grading standards, we can know what kind of papers are excellent, and then know how to build models and write papers.