Today we talked about first notable female mathematician called Hypatia. She was born in the late 300s A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt. She studied in Athens, Italy. She was not like other women. She dressed like a scholar, she was into politics, and she drove her own chariot. Someone or some people thought she was a witch because of her different personality, and was brutally murdered in 415 A.D.
We also worked on Venn Diagrams, which are two or more circles put together that compare and contrast two or more things. We did some activities with Venn Diagrams. One activity we did involved groups of three. We had a Venn Diagram with three circles and we each compared and contrasted things about us. We also went to a website (the link is the highlighted 'Venn Diagrams') and sorted numbers in the appropriate category.
We also worked on something called sets. Sets are a collection of objects called elements. For instance, lets say group A has the numbers 1234, and you would like to make a set of the numbers. You would create something like this: A={1,2,3,4} I know it seems confusing, but eventually you understand it.
Then we learned about something call Polynomiography. It is a series of codes that creates pictures like the ones below.
My first name, which is the code 13z^3+1z^1-12z^8+12z^8-15z^6+18z^18-25z^7
I know, it does seem complicated.
This is my birthday.
This one is my full name.
I actually just did some random clicking and then this happened...it had a better outcome than I thought it would.
That was day one of Girls Plus Math! I'm excited to see what tomorrow brings!
~Mallory~
I hope you're having fun at camp Mallory! :)
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