K-12 Outreach

Math Invitational Meet

Each year nearly 100 High Schools send students to WPI to participate in our annual Math Meet.
The Math Meet provides an opportunity to encourage high school students to consider mathematics, science, engineering and management as career options. The students battle both in teams and individually where they compete for over $100,000 in WPI scholarships.

An exciting way to experience math in a half-day weeklong program. Join other girls and learn that mathematics is in everything! Led by professional women mathematicians, the program focuses on topics ranging from hidden secrets about numbers and probability, to numerical bases, exponents and logarithms, and geometry. Emphasis will be on problem solving--hands-on applications with games and fun projects, too. This program will be offered in the summer of 2012.

In a day program for students talented in mathematical science, participants explore new concepts and challenge themselves with new applications. Sessions include combinatorics, basic probability, algebra, geometry, and more. From September through May, participants return for one Saturday each month to explore advanced topics and continue their study.

A one week summer session where 15 to 20 students learn how a mix of classical mathematics and modern technology can be used to solve current problems and open up new areas. They use this background to examine encryption of numbers on the Internet via the RSA algorithm, and analysis of human voice patterns and musical instruments through Fourier methods. Specific problems of current information technology that these address include the need for secure transmission of data, such as credit card numbers over the Internet, voice-print technology, and storage and use of music in digital format.

The Master's of Mathematics for Educators program at WPI is designed to allow to high school and middle school math teachers the opportunity to get an advanced degree which truly relates to their career, in a convenient and economical manner while still retaining their teaching position. In 2009, the first two distance members of the program graduated.

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