Today was the second day at Girls Plus Math!
We started out our day learning about Ada Byron Lovelace. She was the daughter of Lord Byron, he was a poet. But Ada never met him. Ada was home-schooled. She was gifted in making model boats when she was eight, and designed a flying machine when she was thirteen! Amazing! Later on, she wrote the description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer. Ada was also considered as the first "programmer". She lived a wonderful life, but sadly died of cancer and unnecessary bloodletting by her doctors.
We also worked with algebra tiles today. Algebra tiles are squares and rectangles used to help you understand algebra better.
Then we learned about the counting principle. The counting principle is, as written in my notes, "when there are M ways to do one thing, and N ways to do another there are MxN ways to do both. We used the counting principle for problems like, "I have a green shirt, a red shirt, and a blue shirt and blue jeans and khakis. How many outfits do I have?"
We learned more about polygons and polyhedra. Polygons are shapes with straight lines, no curves, and are closed so there are no openings. Polyhedra are 3-Dimensional shapes like the cube, the tetrahedron, and the dodecahedron. If you don't know the shapes, just google them.
After that, we learned about Pascal's Triangle. Pascal's Triangle was created by a French mathematician named Blaise Pascal. It is kinda hard to explain what it is...sorry.
We also did some more polynomiography today. Here is some more:
This one is my brother's full name. (Mom show Dillon!)
This one is my mom's full name.
Some more random clicking.
That was the second day at Girl's Plus Math. Today was fun and I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
~Mallory~
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