Thursday at Math Camp. Last Day! :(

July 23
                       The last day of math camp is coming to an end. The famous female mathematician for today was Maryan Mirzakhani. Maryan was born in Tehran, Iran in May 1977. She had some problems with math in middle school but in high school she was on a Math Olympiad and in 1944 and 1955 she  won gold medals. Maryan earned a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard. She was the first woman to win the Fields Medal. She received this award in 2014.  We then learned some Math Magic tricks. Through out the day we learned about fractals, and other really cool things. I'm sorry to say that this will be my last post. It has been a fun week but I'm ready to be back at home with my family.

                                                                                                 Thanks For Reading!
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Wednesday at Math Camp

July 22
                Hello! The classes for day three at math camp are coming to a close but a lot was learned today. The famous female scientist of the was Maria Agnesi (1718-1799). Agnesi was treated as a childhood prodigy- she had tutors to teach her five languages.  After her mother died, Agensi had to teach her 21 younger siblings. (Yes. That was not a typing error.  She had 21 younger siblings) So to help her teach she wrote two math books.
               Then we did some logic games and puzzles at sporcle.com.
      Then we learned about pentominoes.
               Looking forward to the rest of camp. :)

Tuesday at Math Camp

July 21   

               Day two at math camp was just as busy as day one.

            First, the famous scientist we learned about was Ada Byron Lovelace. Lovelace was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron. At age 8 Lovelace was gifted at building model boats and at 13 she designed a flying machine. Lovelace died in 1852 from cancer and unnecessary bloodletting by her doctors. 

                 Then we used Algebra Tiles to solve equations. Then  we learned about Pascals triangle and polygons and polyhedra. Then we did more polynomiography. We also had a guest speaker named Catherine Miller-Hunt.  We also learned about platonic solids. Well I'm looking forward to tomorrow. 

Monday at Girls Plus Math

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June 20th  

                  We learned a lot on day one of Girls Plus Math Camp 2015. First we learned about a famous mathematician named Hypatia. Hypatia was murdered in 415 A.D.

Another thing we learned about polynomiograghy. This is on of my polynomials.


I can't wait to see what's in store for us tomorrow after this fun day at math camp.