·The rules of the MCM allow teams any inanimate help. You must not seek or obtain advice on the problem from anyone else.
·Stick to the proposed timetable. In particular, each day has priority task(s) - do not become side-tracked away from these priorities.
·Writing up the report is a very time consuming business. Making this an early priority takes the pressure off and helps considerably in the layered building of the model. The process of explaining and ordering your arguments in the simple model will help you to criticise your simple model and hence clarify your thinking on the next stages of improvement. Furthermore, once a draft version is down on paper (or disk), it is easy to make modifications as required or add more sections.
·It is possible that a conflict of opinion may arise on some issue. We recommend that no more than half an hour should be spent in discussion on any one issue after which a majority rule vote should take place (even when you know that you are right!).
·It is not productive to go without sleep on the first few nights so we recommend not less than seven hours sleep on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights! At the same time, it is probably better psychologically to achieve each day's priority tasks even if that means starting later on the following day.
·Remember that the point of the MCM is to formulate your own mathematical model and not to find "THE ANSWER" in some textbook or other source. Information quoted from textbooks must be properly motivated and understood before being incorporated into your model - you will not necessarily be rewarded by the judges for just coming up with some useful references from which you quote formulas!
·Last, but certainly not least, the MCM should be a stimulating and enjoyable experience for all concerned. So have fun!
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