Welcome to the home of the first-ever CUNY Math Challenge! Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD) and supported by the Office of the Chancellor, the CUNY Math Challenge seeks to identify and reward CUNY’s best math talent. Regardless of your major, if you are a matriculated CUNY undergraduate student and have a predilection for quantitative thinking and mathematics, the CUNY Math Challenge is for you!

Here's how it works. The challenge is made up of five rounds, the first four of which take place online and consist of five problems each. A new round opens every other week beginning Monday, March 2, 2009. Participants have two weeks to submit their answers in each round, accumulating points along the way. Problems in each round are of varying levels of difficulty, and no prerequisite courses are needed for participation.

Students with the highest total points after the first four rounds will be invited to the final round, an in-person exam to be administered on Sunday, May 10, 2009. Approximately thirty qualifying students will compete in the final round for fourteen cash prizes ranging from $500 up to the grand prize of $2,500, funded by the Academic Leadership Award received by Chancellor Goldstein from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Winners will be publicly recognized at an event with Chancellor Goldstein.

So are you up for the challenge?!