Summary and Control Sheets

Summary Sheets

A summary sheet must accompany each solution submitted for judging in the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge.

The summary is a very important part of your IM²C paper. The judges place considerable weight on the summary, and winning papers are sometimes distinguished from other papers based on the quality of the summary.

To write a good summary, imagine that a reader may choose whether or not to read the body of the paper based on your summary. Thus, a summary should clearly describe your approach to the problem and, most prominently, what your most important conclusions were. The summary should inspire a reader to learn the details of your work.

Summaries that are mere restatements of the contest problem, or are a cut-and-paste from the Introduction are generally considered to be weak.

Control Sheets

In addition to the Summary Sheet, each team must also download, complete, and attach a Team Control Sheet to their submission. This sheet is a declaration from the participants pledging that they have abided by the contest rules and instructions. It must be signed by each individual member of the team and the team advisor.