Today, I helped organize the qualifying round of MIT's annual Integration Bee competition. It was fun to see people working through the (reasonably hard) integration problems, 25 integrals to be done in 20 minutes. Immediately after, we had to grade the papers, which did not take too long since there was not much to correct - there were lots of blanks. The highest score was 8/25, and the ten people with 3 or more points get to compete in the final round on Wednesday, Jan 27.
This year's organizer was Prof. Abhinav Kumar (who did a triple major at MIT when he was an undergrad), and Lauren, a sophomore, was the other student helper. The official webpage is here. Earlier versions were organized by Todd Kemp.
2010 problems and answers
2009 problems and answers
2007 problems and answers.
Problems this year were much harder than last year !
Here is a short video from the 2009 final round.
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only math majors can participate uh?
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Much much harder than last year. I only got 11 in the allotted time, but frustratingly when I went to finish the rest, I realized 4 more came out quickly when I thought they would take a long time. Instead of them, I wasted so long on a hard one! =[
I wish I was at MIT!
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