Today was the third day at Girls Plus Math!
The day started out with us learning about Maria Agnesi, who lived from 1718 to 1799. She was a child prodigy. She was tutored to learn five languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Spanish. She disliked all of the language learning. After her mother died, she educated all twenty-one of her younger siblings. To help teach her little brothers, she wrote two math volumes. After her father died, she used her wealth to help others, which made her die poor.
Next, we went on a website called sporcle.com. It is a quiz website, and it also has some logic puzzles.
Then we learned about Fibonacci. Fibonacci was actually a man called Leonardo of Pisa, who was born in the late twelfth century, but his name was interpreted to Fibonacci and it stuck with him.
We also learned about the Golden Ratio, which is 1.618033.
Then we learned about factorials. Factorials are an exclamation point, but they have a completely different meaning in math. Basically, it's a way to multiply.
Then we played a game called Mastermind. In Mastermind, somebody makes a code using four colored pieces, and somebody else tries to crack the code.
Then we worked with pentominoes. No, the are not pentagon-shaped dominoes. They are shapes with the area of five half inch to an inch squares. We used them to try to make a square.
I also made some more polynomiography.
This is Lily, one of my best friends.
This one is Makayla, another one of my best friends.
And this one is Bailey, another best friend of mine.
That is all that we did today. But yesterday, a girl named Maria got sick and had to leave. I hope she starts feeling better soon. Anyway, today was a great day and I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
~Mallory~
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