Tuesday
July 21,2015
Second day at math camp was great!! First we started off the day with Ada Byron Lovelace. Ada was born in 1815 and died in 1852 because of cancer that was unnecessary bloodletting by her doctors. she enjoyed dancing, horse back riding, and she was also a gymnast. She was gifted at the age of 8 at building model boats and at the age of 13 she designed a flying machine. After that we learned how to do algebra tile. While working will those we also talked about solving equation, multiplying polynomials, and factoring polynomials. Before we had lunch we learned about The Counting Principle. The Counting Principle is when there are "m" ways to do one thing, and "n" ways to do another, there are "m" and "n" ways to do bot. After lunch we talked about Polyhedra which are 3d shapes and the sides of the shapes at polygons. we also did more math questions again on math Olympiad 2. After that we talked about Pascel's Triangles who were invented by Blaise Pascal who only lived 39 years. Very last thing we had today which was great to listen to was Catherine Miller-Hunt who talked about STEM and how important it is to stay in school and that math is and everyday thing that you use in jobs and school. Then last but not least we got to write on our blogs!!!! 
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