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July 23, 2015

today at Girls Plus Math Camp we learned about Maryan Mizakhani. She was born in May 1977 and she is still alive. She was born in Tehran, the capitol of Iran. Although she struggled struggled with math in middle school she ended up getting a P.H.D. at Harvard. Later, she taught at Princeton, but now she teaches at Stanford.Last year, she won the Fields Medal. She is the first female to ever win a Fields Medal. Then, we learned some fun math tricks that make it look like you can read minds. After that, we colored a triangle that had to do with Pascal's triangle. We also learned how to decode. we were able to look at blood cells because the speakers we had talk to us the other day came back and let us look at there blood cells. Now I am typing my blog.

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July 22,2015

Today at math camp we learned about Maria Agnesi. She was born in 1718 and died in 1799. She was also a child prodigy and learned five languages.

She had to teach her 21 younger siblings after the death of her mother. There is a book that has gathered about 200 of her speeches. After her father died she gave money to good causes and died poor because of her generous actions. Then we learned about Fibonnaci who was Italian. He spent his childhood in North Africa. He is known for a sequence of numbers called Fibonnaci Numbers.

Then we measured ourselves for the golden ratio. We later played a logic game called mastermind. Then, we learned and played with Pentominos. It is five squares placed in different spots touching another square by the side not the corners. Then we watched a video about how animation uses math.

July 21, 2015

Today in math camp we learned about Ada Byron Lovelace. She was the daughter of Lord Byron. She was born in 1815 and died in 1852, in her thirties. She was home schooled, and made a machine called the flying machine. She was an important figure in computer science. She probably died because of the multiple types of illness. After that we learned about Algebra tiles. The tiles were easy to understand and use, and that help with solving equations. An equation is any mathematical expression that has and equal sign. Next, the counting priniciple, the definition is when there are m ways of doing one thing and n ways of another thing there are n times m ways of doing both. Then polyherdrons, we talked about platonic solids. Platonic solids have the face of a polygon, straight sides, the same corners, and the same faces. There are five platonic solids. Then three speakers were talking about dieceases and STEM. After that, we came here and made more polynomials. Here is the one I created today.

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July 20,2015

Hello, I'm Ryann. Today at math camp for girls we did activities leading up to learning about 

polynomials. Before we started we did a critical thinking activity were we had to make a tower with tape, one sheet of paper, and scissors. The winners got a prize. Then we learned about Hypatia, she 

was the first female mathematician. Hypatia was born in the late 300s A.D. Although she was  murdered in 415 A.D. because she was a supposed witch. She also never got married.
Then we learned about Venn Diagrams. Venn diagrams are two or more circles that compare and contrast two or more topics. After that, we learned about polynomials. The definition of polynomial is an expression that can have constants, variables and exponents, that can be combined with addition, subtraction, division, or multiplication. We learned about monomials, binomials, and trinomials. after that we got to make our own polynomials and no i have provided you with pictures from two of the polynomials I have made.