How can I contribute to the Mathekalender?
With over 6000 participants from Germany, Europe and the rest of the world, the MATH+ Advent Calendar (formerly called Mathekalender) is an important part of the outreach activities of the Berlin Mathematics Research Centre MATH+ and 4TU+.AMI. Every year, the MATH+ Advent Calendar challenges are created by researchers from MATH+ and 4TU+.AMI.
We very much invite applied mathematicians from Delft, Eindhoven, Groningen, Twente and Wageningen to contribute a challenge for the next edition of the MATH+ Advent Calendar!
Practical information
Each challenge:
- is suitable for students in the last two years of high school (5 and 6 vwo);
- has a level of difficulty comparable to that of problems given at the Dutch national mathematics olympiad;
- comes with 10 possible answers, exactly one of which is correct;
- has an Advent/Christmas 'feel' to it (the Mathekalender team may help you with this, if necessary).
Ideally, your challenge is inspired by one of your research projects. If this is the case, please provide a short description of the project and the connection to the challenge.
To get an impression of the kind of problems we hope to receive, please consult the extensive MATH+ Advent Calendar challenge archive. (The illustrations are created by an artist after the challenges have been received by the MATH+ Advent Calendar team in Berlin.)
Submitting a challenge
If you would like to contribute, we would love to hear from you! Please contact Pim van 't Hof (4TU+.AMI coordinator for the MATH+ Advent Calendar) if you have any questions about (contributing to) the MATH+ Advent Calendar.
If you already have a challenge, then please submit the challenge, the 10 possible answers, and the full solution by email (p.vanthof@utwente.nl), preferably using this LaTeX template:
If you would like to discuss possible puzzle ideas first, don't hesitate to reach out to Pim van 't Hof.
Thank you for your contribution!