Welcome to Girls Math Camp 2015 taking place on the campus of WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY the week of July 19 to July 24. This week will be filled with many activities including learning how to make art out of polynomials using a program called POLYNOMIOGRAPHY, competing in a Math Olympiad, studying patterns in Pascal's Triangle and the Fibanocci Sequence, Cryptography, Probability and Statistics, Estimation and Critical thinking, Biographies of Women who have made an impact on the Field of Mathematics and more.
Below are links to the pages that each of the campers will be designing during the week of camp. They will use these blogs to share their beautiful polynomiography and create a keepsake that highlights the activities and knowledge they experienced throughout the week.
Abigail
Aliya
Carol
Elizabeth
Emma
Isabella
Isabelle
Kaelyn
Kaylee
Kia
Mallory
Maria
Ryann
Sophia
Thalia
First day, Monday, July 29, 2015
Congrats to Mallory, Ryann, and Abby for making the tallest stand alone tower out of one 8.5" by 11" sheet of paper.
Treats from the vending machine for their efforts.
Way to go Elizabeth and Aliya. Tied for the best estimate on the perimeter of the WIU Pennant. Guessed 76", Actual 73.5 ". Elizabeth won the draw for the Pennant.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Congratulations to Isabella for the closest estimate on the area of a poster (in square centimeters).
She estimated 2226 square centimeters and the actual area was 2091 square centimeters. Sophia was a close 2nd. Isabella won the 41 cm by 51 cm poster.
One of the activities today was to construct the 5 Platonic Solids. After the campers constructed the Tetrahedron, the Hexahedron, the Octahedron, the Dodecahedron, and the Icosahedron the math campers counted the number of faces, vertices, and edges of each and used that information to look for patterns.
Isabella is again the winner on the estimation. She estimated the weight of the WIU key chain to be 1.3 oz and the actual weight is 1.2 oz.
Some girls working on polynomiography,
Carol won the estimation for the number of pennies in a jar. Her estimation was 162, actual number of pennies was 150. She won a stuffed Rocky dog for the best estimation.
Below is Dr. Catherine Miller-Hunt explaining how math can be used in biology.
