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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
USA/Canada 2014 MathCamp!
What is Mathcamp?
Canada/USA Mathcamp is an intensive 5-week-long summer program for mathematically talented high school students, designed to expose these students to the beauty of advanced mathematical ideas and to new ways of thinking. More than just a summer camp, Mathcamp is a vibrant community, made up of a wide variety of people who share a common love of learning and passion for mathematics. At Mathcamp, students can explore undergraduate and even graduate-level topics while building problem-solving skills that will help them in any field they choose to study.
When and Where?
Mathcamp 2014 will be held at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR from July 6 to August 10, 2014. To learn more about MC 2014This Week's I-Math Exercise
What is the I-Math Program? The I-Math Program is a collection of nineteen different mathematical problem-solving activities. Each title, which contains from one to eight pages, starts with simple questions that serve to establish your basic level of understanding of a concept that will be covered in that particular series. The questions then slowly become more complex as variations to the problem are introduced.
CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC. Calculate fractions with different denominators.
1A. CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC.
A man cut a cake into eight pieces. He and his family ate 1/2 of it, and he gave away 3 pieces. How much of the cake was left?
1B. CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC.
A man cut a cake into nine pieces. He ate 1/3 of the cake, and his family ate five pieces. How much of the cake was left?
1C. CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC.
A woman had $75 to give away. She gave the first person 1/3 of it, and the second person 1/5 of it. How much was left?
CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC. Calculate fractions with different denominators.
1A. CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC.
A man cut a cake into eight pieces. He and his family ate 1/2 of it, and he gave away 3 pieces. How much of the cake was left?
1B. CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC.
A man cut a cake into nine pieces. He ate 1/3 of the cake, and his family ate five pieces. How much of the cake was left?
1C. CUTTING THE CAKE, ETC.
A woman had $75 to give away. She gave the first person 1/3 of it, and the second person 1/5 of it. How much was left?
SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS: What are they saying?
The hardest thing about word problems is taking the English words and translating them to Mathematics. The actual math is fairly simple but figuring out the equation can seem impossible if you don't understand what it is saying to you. It takes practice, practice, practice. Here is a video that can provide you with an easy system of solving word problems.
"Mathematically" Reading
Book of the month of June.
A Gebra Named Al by Wendy Isdell
Julie hates algebra—until she meets a gebra named Al. In this Student Book, Julie, Al, and the Periodic horses journey through the Land of Mathematics, where the Orders of Operations are real places ... Google Books
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