{"id":187,"date":"2021-04-26T16:49:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:10:44","slug":"preparing-your-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/preparing-your-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing your team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important:<\/strong>&nbsp;Be sure to use a valid current email address so that we can use it to contact you at any point before, during, or after the contest, if necessary.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Form a team consist of up to four secondary school students whose skill sets cover discrete and continuous mathematics, computer programming, and technical writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Review the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/im2c-canada.math.yorku.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\/rules\/\">rules<\/a>, the guideline and sample problems to the students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ensure that students have access to computers that enable them to word process, use a spreadsheet, and dynamically model both graphs and geometric relationships. In addition, students should have access to graphic calculators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is both legitimate and desirable to coach or otherwise prepare your team(s). Visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.immchallenge.org\/Pages\/Sample.html\">IM<sup>2<\/sup>C website<\/a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<strong>Sample Problems<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.immchallenge.org\/Contests\/index.html\">IM<sup>2<\/sup>C website<\/a>&nbsp;at for&nbsp;<strong>Past Problems, Winning Solutions and Judges Commentary<\/strong>&nbsp;to prepare your students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All parents of students participating in the contest must sign a Parental\/Guardian Authorization Form making their child\u2019s work available (with confidentiality assurance) for use in example and training materials for IM<sup>2<\/sup>C professional development activities. Additionally, should their team be designated as an outstanding winner, the student\u2019s Solution Paper (or solution abstract) will be published. THIS AUTHORIZATION FORM MUST BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET AND SENT HOME WITH EACH STUDENT&nbsp;&nbsp;SENT&nbsp;BEFORE THE END of&nbsp; THE CONTEST&nbsp;PERIOD. SIGNED AUTHORIZATION FORMS FOR EACH STUDENT MUST BE INCLUDED WITH SOLUTION PAPERS FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE JUDGES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IMMC Trainning Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important:&nbsp;Be sure to use a valid current email address so that we can use it to contact you at any point before, during, or after the contest, if necessary. \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Form a team consist of up to four secondary school students whose skill sets cover discrete and continuous mathematics, computer programming, and technical writing. \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Review the&nbsp;rules, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"schen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/author\/schen\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/im2c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}