Last Blog Day!

I'll blog in a little bit. Just polynomials for now.

Hi Blog! It's my last day of  blogging for Girls Plus. Today we worked on fractals. We also worked on code making and code breaking. We also learned tricks and puzzles like the Monty Hall Puzzle.  I've had so much fun here and met so many great people and had a great experience. I'm so thankful for the opportunity and hope I can come again next year!

Wednesdays at Camp

Wednesday, July 22

Hi Blog! It's Sophia. We did a lot in class today. We learned about a female mathematician named Maria Agnesi, who was a childhood prodigy and tutored people in five languages! We also played Sporcle and did things related to trivia. \

Other things we did today included:

• Pentominos  
• Fibonacci's number sequence
• The Golden Ratio
• Played Mastermind

Mastermind was personally my favorite. 

I really liked today's Math Olympiad. I got 4 out of 5 problems correct. I might have gotten the fifth one right if I hadn't rushed the problem, I ran out of time, Thanks for reading, sorry I don't have a polynomial today. I might load one later. :-)

Second Day of Classes at Camp

Hello Blog! It's Sophia. Today was my second day of classes here at WIU Girls Plus Math Camp. Today, we learned about Platonic Solids. There are the cube, the tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. It was very interesting. We also leaned about vertices, faces, and edges. Other things we learned about today included:

• Ada Byron Lovelace
• Distributive Properties
• Fundamental Counting Principle

I had lots of fun today at camp! I'm so excited to learn more in my next three days here!

First Day of Math Camp.

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Monday, July 20

Hi Blog! It's Sophia. Today was the first official learning day at Math Camp. I am having a lot of fun. Today in class, we learned about lots of things. For example, we learned about Hypatia. She was the first really important female mathematician. 

We also learned about:

• Venn Diagrams and got to know each other with a Venn Diagram, Venn Diagram
• Polynomials
• Sets
• Terms
• Played the game Set

We also took estimations of the perimeter of the WIU Flag.

When we went to the computer lab, we learned all about polynomiography and created wonderful artwork through equations. This is one of my pieces that came from my name turned into an equations.

Thanks for reading!