Lauren's Journal

Math Camp Journal

Monday, July 16:

We had a very busy day that day.  In the morning we learned about well-known women mathematicians from the 1700's. Beforehand, we were taught how to use the more complicated caculators. We were also recently educated on tessellations and how to make your own website, which we are still in the process of learning. Dr. Iraj Kalantari came in to teach us about Polynomiography. We got to go bowling that night too, though i didn't do very well. Later on that night we got to watch the movie "Grease."

Tuesday, July 17:

Today was a lot of fun. The breakfast was great! I got to eat the best omelette and cream-of-wheat in the world! We learned lots of things about the Pascal's Triangle, 3-D shapes, polyhedrons, Fibonacci sequence, and the golden ratio, and much more. We got to go swimming too!!

A lot of the things were very confusing at first, but I got the hang of it after a while. Each day we get to learn a new, famous mathematician and about their work and personal lives.

Wednesday, July 18:

It is a very long and busy day...We had another visitor today, which was the Dean of the School. She talked to us about the importance of math and had us share the reason we like mathematics.