2003 Trinity College Integration Bee

Winners of the 2003 Integration Bee
Some of the integrals that were asked at the Spring 2003 Integration Bee.
Announcement
What is an integration bee?
Some tips for those planning to compete
Pictures from the 2003 Integration Bee (and the Day of Mathematics it was part of)

Winners of the 2003 Integration Bee

Congratulations to the winners of the 2003 Trinity Integration Bee:

Other students who participated (in alphabetical order):

Every student who participated will be awarded a prize. To claim your prizes, please see Professor Cruz-Uribe (MCEC 273).

Announcement

The Department of Mathematics at Trinity College

presents the first

3:30pm, Tuesday 25th February

MCEC 220

All Trinity students are encouraged to compete and welcome to spectate!

If you'd like to compete, please sign up by either

writing your name on the sign up sheet on the door of MCEC 283 (Professor Erwin), or,
sending email to david.erwin@trincoll.edu.

What is an integration bee?

Think Spelling Bee but with integrals instead of words.

The contest consists of elimination rounds in which contestants find antiderivatives of given functions.

As the contest progresses, functions increase in complexity.

Contestants who wrongly evaluate two integrals are disqualified from succeeding rounds.

Prizes will be awarded and the student who comes first will earn the title of Trinity Integration Champ!

Some tips for those planning to compete

Here is a checklist of integration methods you can use to win the Integration Bee:

Basic techniques:
- Integrals of powers and of trigonometric functions.
- Substitution.
- Integration by parts.
- Partial fraction decomposition.
- Trigonometric substitutions.
Tricky stuff:
- Integrals of powers of trigonometric functions.
- Completing the square.
- Elimination of radicals by substitution.