Math Club SJC

Our mission is to engage the student body and outside the community, on issues concerning mathematic

03/14/2022

What do you get when you divide the sun’s circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky.

Happy Pi Day! Check out next week for Math Club week-long celebration! Fill with famous people, interesting math problems, and of course Pi!

03/07/2022

Visit the and us where we will talk about the Ethics in Mathematics. Meeting will be tomorrow March, 8th from 12:30pm- 1:30pm. We are hoping to see you there and if you have any questions feel free to dm us! :)

03/01/2022

Today is our second Math club meeting! We are getting an understanding of why we enjoy music. The way the waves and shape of music work! If your musically inclined student is finding it difficult to enjoy math, looking into the connections between the two disciplines can assist to re-energize your student's interest in both subjects.

Zoom at common hour on Engage!

02/07/2022

With another week on its way, we can't wait to see you at our club meeting with .li talking about what makes a video game excellent!

02/01/2022

Well! With a nothing Monday passing the week is in full spin and now it time to get the work done!

You want an challenge try and figure out this puzzle!

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01/31/2022

A new start to the week! 🥳 We can’t wait to see what you all learn this week! Let us know what your favorite class is so far!

11/16/2021

😊Take Care

11/15/2021

Good morning Monday! This week we have a bunch of exciting events with .li and the ! Don't forget to check it out!

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11/13/2021

Dolores Margaret Richard (Spikes)
August 24, 1936 - June 1, 2015
Dolores Margaret was born to Lawrence Granville and Margaret Patterson Richard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She often spoke about her parents being her greatest influence in life. Lawrence Richard had a 4th grade education but loved to read and cared deeply about education, encouraging both Dolores and her sister to get college degrees. Her mother similarly valued education though she herself had about a tenth-grade education. Dolores went to Southern University, a Historically Black University in Louisiana, to major in mathematics. She met her future husband Hermon Spikes, also a math major, in a word literature class on campus. In 1957, she graduated with honors from Southern University with her B.S in mathematics. She left Louisiana at this time to get her Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois, Urbana. While she was at graduate school, Hermon mailed her a ring and they married two weeks after she graduated with her Master’s degree in 1958. At this time she returned to Louisiana and took a teaching position at Mossville High School in Calcasien Parish which she kept for three years at which time she was offered a teaching position at Southern University. Over time she would rise from assistant professor to associate professor to a full professorship at her Alma Mater. At the same time, she was working on her doctorate in mathematics at Louisiana State University in addition to caring for her young daughter. She received her Ph.d with a focus in commutative rings in 1971 for her thesis, "Semi-Valuations and Groups of Divisibility”. In the early 1980’s, she started work as an administrator for Southern University and in 1988 was appointed president of the Southern University and A&M. She was both the first female president of a Louisiana state university and the first female university leader in the United States. In 1994, she was named by President Bill Clinton as the vice president of the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities. Dr. Spikes passed away in 2015.

11/10/2021

Happy Wednesday! I hope this got you at least a little giggle!

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Source: happynumbers.com

11/09/2021

A place to study and make your self in the zone for a good study session is important!
Where is your perfect study place?

11/05/2021

Mary Everest was born in Gloucestershire, England to parents Reverend Thomas Roupell Everest and Mary Ryall in 1835. When she was five they moved to Poissy, France in an attempt to find treatment for her father’s illness but the cultural shift of being in catholic France was challenging on the family. Her first introduction to mathematics was provided by her tutor Monsieur Deplace. When she was eleven, her family returned to England and she was taken out of school to work as her father’s assistant helping him with his sermons and the Sunday school. However, Mary didn’t stop learning and continued to read books in a variety of subjects though focusing on mathematics. She would also converse with her uncle and her father’s friends particularly George Everest, John Hershel, and Charles Babbage, famous mathematicians in their own rights, who further motivated her study. When visiting her Aunt and Uncle in Ireland, she met George Boole, already famous for his contributions to what is now known as Boolean Algebra, while she was 18 and he 35. They greatly enjoyed each other's company and he taught her mathematics that she had not been able to learn on her own. When she returned to England, they communicated by letter often about mathematical topics for two years. In 1852, he came to visit England and became more formally Mary’s math tutor; it is at this time they also became close friends. In 1855, her father died and Mary was left without any means of support which prompted Boole to propose and they were married 3 months later. The pair had five children each who would go on to make significant contributions. George Boole died in 1864 leaving a now Mary a single mother with no financial support. She returned to London at this time and was offered a Librarian position at Queen's College, London. She would go on to act as an unofficial advisor and teacher in this role to many of the college’s students as well as write several books about education most influentially The Preparation of the Child for Science. She is also credited with inventing curve stitching which we now call String Geometry for the instruction of children. Mary died at the age of 84 in 1916.

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