Mathematica at Math Camp
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- Subject: [mg67442] Mathematica at Math Camp
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:28:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
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I taught a group of 32 smart high school kids some Mathematica this week, at the Vermont Governor's Institute in Mathematical Sciences, aka Math Camp. This is my second year doing it, and it's a ton of fun. I had the kids an hour a day in one of our computer equipped classrooms, and this year we added some additional optional computer time in the late afternoons so they could come back and continue working / playing around. (Last year some of them wanted more time, but there was no time in the schedule when they could come back.) You might enjoy looking at graphs and animations that the kids made and exported from Mathematica. http://www.cems.uvm.edu/math/gims/ (Follow the link to the graphs and animations from there.) You can also download the notebooks that I posted for the kids on the Mathematica Class page. Some of them were repeat campers from last year, so I added some extra material this year, in case they got through the other stuff quickly. (The notebook "Find Your Birthday in Pi", the one on primes, and the one on surfaces of revolution were all extras. Not everyone did those, but the Pi notebook especially was a big hit among the kids who got to it.) The last day (today), I pretty much let them work on whatever they wanted. Some of them continued working on animations they had started yesterday, some looked at the multi-color curve example and went from there, some of them tidied up their webpages. -- Helen Read University of Vermont