August 21, 2016 - Math Circle 2.0

Welcome back 2.0.  It was great to see everyone after the summer.  There was a full class in Altgeld Hall!

Warm up

Addition errors....  The students identified addition equations on the chalk board that were wrong and corrected them.

Coordinates

The robot cat was back in Urbana.  It could only travel two directions (left and up).  Using their programming skills, the students gave the robot instructions to navigate the cat through Urbana to the dog party.  They sucessfully negotiated through road construction!  Next week...  keep with idea but add more directions.



Patterns

The students were able to repeat a pattern developed by Max.   They also were able to reconstruct missing parts of the pattern.  Next week...  add additional pattern symbols.

Book stacking problem

Introduced the book stacking problem that the Math O 1.0 explored earlier.  The students experimented with playing cards and noticed that the card when placed on their desk would not fall if over half the card was on the desk.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BookStackingProblem.html