7-21-16

Day 4. 

    Hello reader once again. Sadly, this is the last day of my final blog post. Our cabin woke up at 6:50 even though we were supposed to set up breakfast at 4:45! Luckily, I didn't have to set up breakfast today since I set it up yesterday. We had the regular- cereal, bagels, yogurt, fruit, milk, orange juice, and water. Also, today is Amelia's birthday!

   After breakfast, we went to the MCC and learned about Maryam Mirzakhani. She was born in 1977 and was the first female recipient of the Fields Medal in 2014. She participated in the 1994 and 1995 math Olypiad.  Maryam has a husband and a daughter.



   In our morning sessions, we learned more about probability, Sierpinski's triangle, we graphed a Christmas tree on our calculators,we estimated the weight of a key chain, we discussed the Monty Hall problem, Pokemon go, and Dr. Jessica Lin talked about game theory.

Bye forever!

Side note: My friend Emma is a potato. My friend Meaghan is a tofu square. My friend Jessica is a spring egg roll. I am a meaty steak. 

7-20-16
Day 3.

   Welcome reader. We are here once again. This morning, I got up around 6:30 (our whole cabin did even though we were supposed to get up at 6:15 lolz) Some of the girls in our cabin set up breakfast for everyone in the camp even though we were not fully awake. Our breakfast included the usual- Cereal, bagels, yogurt, granola bars, milk, water, and oatmeal.
 

  We then were zoomed to MCC. At the MCC, we learned about Maria Agnesi. Maria was born in May 16, 1718. She was a child prodigy. Even though, she did not like public speaking, her dad encouraged her to do so. Out of the great and well spoken speeches, at the age of 20, Maria had her speeches published in a book called 'Propositiones Philosophicae." Maria had 21 siblings, not including herself. Maria's mother died so since she was the oldest child, she was the "mother" of the family. Maria died in January 9, 1799.

   After we learned about Maria, we learned about factorials, talked more about the fundamental counting system, talked more about Pascal's triangle, learned about Leonardo Fibonacci and Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, pentominoes, the zika virus, and played the game mastermind. You can play mastermind here.

  Well I have to go now , but I will write to you tomorrow. Bye!

Side note: My friend Emma is a potato. My friend Meaghan is a tofu square. I am a meaty steak.

7-19-16
Day 2.

   Hello reader, once again. This morning I woke up at 6:30 (even though I was supposed to wake up at 6:05.) I was tired, so I wore my sunglasses to hide my bags. Oh, I almost forgot! There was another frog in our cabin! Jillian once again got it but it peed in her hand! After that I went to breakfast, which consisted of oatmeal, apple juice, cereal, yogurt, and a granola bar.

 After that we went to the MCC and learned about the first considered computer programmer- Ada Byron Lovelace.  Ada was born in the 1800's and even though there weren't computers back then, there were some kinds of devices that resembled a computer.  Ada was a sickly person throughout her life and died of cancer on November 27, 1852.

           

After we learned about Ada, we learned about algebra tiles, mathmagical tricks, the fundemental counting princeipal, probability, polygons, polyhedras, planar shapes, flat shapes, platonic solids, Pascal's triangle, binomal expansion, and did part two of our Olympiad. Here's the link to  Pascal's triangle. Here's Jessica, Meaghan, and I's creation including a (from bottom to top) dodecahedron, a icosahedron, a hexahedron (cube), a octahedron, and a tetrahedron.

7.18.16
Day 1.

     Hello there reader. If you didn't know, I am Kennedi B. Right now, at this moment (2:38 pm) I am writing to you about my day. I'm a little bit sleepy because we had to wake up at 6:05 am. I don't even wake up for school that early! (Well I'm supposed to but life happens). I don't want to bore you so I'll keep this simple. I woke everyone up at 6:05 and got dressed. Once everyone was up and talking, Shae (our counselor) spotted a frog on Jeightlon's bed! No one screamed but Jillian came to the rescue and picked up the frog. But soon after the frog jumped out from her hand and went into her suitcase! she finally found it and took it outside. (I got it on my snapchat story). We all got ready eventually and went to breakfast. The breakfast was buffet style and I got a bagel, a strawberry yogurt, froot loops (generic kind), and a banana. After that 13 of the girls (including me) hopped into the van driven by Joy. The rest of the girls hopped into the white minivan driven by Shae. We got driven to the Multicultural Center for our first class.

    When we got to the MCC, we went into a wide spaced classroom and got to know our instructors better. After that, we learned about
the first highly recognized female mathematicians- Hypatia.
Hypatia was born in the late 300s A.D. She taught Math and Astronomy and was murdered because she was different than other women her age.

   After we learned about Hypatia, we learned about sets, binomals, trinomals, expressions, degrees, monomials, and did some logic puzzles. After all of that we had lunch and played the game set. You can play the online version here: set

   We then walked to Morgan Hall to talk about polynomography with Mr. Feveer. While he was explaining polynomography, he gave us iPads (we had to share with a partner) so that we could go on to the app Poly Z Vision. Then, I made a polynomial.
   When we came out of the computer lab, we ate dinner, went swimming, and came back to the cabin to watch Now You See me. It was really good. I finally went to sleep.