MAC Scholars Math 2013

06/13/2013

Day 9-FIN!

I want to thank everyone for a great summer! While some of you sandbagged it (meaning you did not work anywhere near your potential and, instead, were fairly unimpressive), most of the students showed why they can be honestly be called scholars. Give a a few, but I will add a key for all the problems. Again, thanks for the opportunity to share some math, thanks for working hard, and persisting through some very advanced stuff! Good luck next year!

http://goo.gl/ZhMh6

06/12/2013

Day 8-I suppose that my comment for today would be...don't undo the great work of 7 days by losing it in the last two!

Here's the links for tonight's blog. The ws is contained in the GoogleDoc Link:

1. Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpxVIwCbBK0
2. GoogleDocs: http://goo.gl/Fe5ew

http://www.ted.com Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 rea...

06/10/2013

Pretty LETHARGIC day, even for ASSASSINS!

Here's the assignments, though!

1. Google Docs: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B34sHaAqL23qUVE2Tkc5VE9UeWM&usp=sharing

2. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooUqOwh-2LE

http://www.ted.com Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, "ghostbusters" r...

06/07/2013

06/07/2013

Great Week, everyone! It was long and grueling, but you made it through with energy to spare (for MAC Idols tomorrow night!). Here's the info for tonight...

1. Assignments: http://goo.gl/Fe5ew
2. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

http://www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) ...

06/06/2013

06/06/2013

Very weird day with so many gone for AVID training, but still have a great video for you to Blog about if you were gone (if you were there, the puzzles are, of course, something to blog about, too!)

YouTube: http://goo.gl/mFs5j
GoogleDocs: http://goo.gl/Fe5ew

http://www.ted.com Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went thro...

06/05/2013

A bit more out of control than I'd prefer, but overall a great day! You have bit to work on/blog about tonight, so here's a recap:

1. Work on either/both of the nested square root problem/magic math problem. Copies can be found at: http://goo.gl/ZhMh6

2. Watch/Re-Watch the Video "The Most Honest 3 Minutes on TV": http://goo.gl/mn8HR

Also if you have not entered in your blog address to the list, please find it using the link http://goo.gl/mn8HR and update it!

Can't wait for tomorrow!!

Exerpt from show

06/04/2013

Day 2. We are starting to get into the mathematics, now! Assignments for tonight....

1. Repost your blog address into the shared document at http://goo.gl/gDwES
2. Work on either or both of the mathematics problems presented in class today.
3. Blog options....either report a solution or progress about the math problems

Or

Respond to video "You are Not Special"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfxYhtf8o4