That Polynomiography Though

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Last day!

Today is our last day.... last FULL day. I honestly cannot believe it. Kinda sad that it's over, but kind of glad because I miss home and my doggy, Twix.  But anyway! Lets's go over about my day went. So Bree blasted "Best Song Ever" by One Direction. I woke up at a reasonable time. (BEFORE 6:30)

ONWARD

• We learned about Maryam Mirzakhani. She was born in Tehran, Iran in May of 1977. In middle school, she struggled with math, but in high school, she excelled. She got a Ph.D at Harvard, became a professor at Princeton, then became one at Stanford. She also worked with Hyperbolic surfaces, 2D and 3D. 
• Something FUN that we learned about was some math tricks which is also a mind trick. I'm going to try to teach my dog this trick.. or just annoy my parents like I do every single day. ;) 
• We also looked at bacteria and different blood cells. Then we ate lunch.

MKAY BYEEEE

Middle of the week

Another tiresome morning... It was Cabin 3's duty to make breakfast. (Aliya, Alex, Elizabeth, and I)

MORE ON IN LIFE 

Anyways! Since I'm way too lazy to put this in sections like I usually do, I'll just put it in a big paragraph. The first thing we learned about was Maria Agnesi. She was a child prodigy, having known 5 languages (French, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin) and being excellent in math, science, and philosophy. At age thirteen, she was able to teach other, including men, in Latin and Greek. The next thing we learned about was Fibonacci. There was this guy named Leonardo Pisano, born in Pisa, Italy. Stuff happened and his new surname became Fibonacci. The other things we learned about was about factorials, permutations, and combinations. It was fun relearning about it, even though I was confused about some of the ways we were doing it because we never used those methods that much. 

FUN FACT: Did you know that combination lockers should be called permutation lockers???

Back to the writing now... Around snack or lunch time, we played Mastermind. It reminded me of a game that I play on Club Penguin for EPF (Elite Penguin Force) training courses. Other than that, we did another Math Olympiad. This time, we did it by ourselves. Then later after lunch, we looked at TED clips of Space Time and The Math in Movies.
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Day 2... Hanging in there.

Today has definitely been a hassle for me. Like seriously... I'm a 100% MESS! My morning started off at probably 3 in the morning. This random clanging noise from me and Bree's side of the cabin woke up. I shot up at the noise and had to catch my breath because my heart was beating rapidly. Other than that, I went back to sleep. Like always, Bree woke us up by blasting music and telling us to wake up. I ignored her by turning over and putting my pillow over my head. Usually Alex and I wake up about the same time, so today felt like a daily routine for us three. (SHOUTOUT TO HER) Once I dragged myself out of the bed and got ready within 30 minutes, I went and had breakfast.

                                        FAST FORWARD

Now in class! We learned about and did:

1. Learned about Ada Byron

• Platonic Solids
• Viruses
• Pascal's Triangle

      2. We did a Math Olympiad

• Also did some polynomiography for a little bit. 

My favorite things to learn about was probably about the Platonic Solids and Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace. 

About Ada Byron , Lady Lovelace

Ada Byron was born to the poet, Lord Byron who died at 35 years old. In her years and before he had died, she had never saw him. When she was eight years old, she was gifted in building model boats and when she was thirteen, she designed a flying machine. She died of cancer and suffered various illnesses throughout her life. For an example, she had measles that had left her nearly paralyzed.

About Platonic Solids

We learned about Platonic Solids in just regular speaking form and singing form. It was pretty fun. Last year towards the end of the year, we learned about Platonic Solids when we got to our 3 dimensional shapes chapter. I didn't learn about the Hexahedron, Dodecahedron, Octahedron, and Icosahedron. When we learned about the Tetrahedron, we just called that a pyramid. It was probably because we aren't THAT far advanced yet.

I'm a narcoleptic?????

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Today has been definitely a long day! A bit tiring, but that's probably just me. Anyways! Today we learned about Hypatia, Venn Diagrams, Polynomiography, etc.

About Hypatia

Hypatia was born in Egypt, but moved to Greece which made her the 1st Greek female Mathematicians, as far as we know. A lot of people had attended her lectures. Sadly, her works were burned in the library of Alexandria when the Arabs conquered Greece. She was into politics, dressed like a scholar, and even drive her on chariot. But since she was different from other women, the people murdered her.

About Venn Diagrams & Sets

Today I learned about different things in the Venn Diagram world. "U" means typically represented by circles or ovals. It is mainly represented as a large rectangle.  An upside down "U" is within the rectangle.

About Polynomials & Roots of Equations

Whilst learning about polynomials, it felt sort of like a review from 7th grade since towards the end of the year we were introduced to this since we'd be starting with it in our 9th math as 8th graders. But I did learn about some things that I didn't learn last year. I did not know that the roots are called "0" in the equation. Another thing that I enjoyed relearning was the Slope. That was of the main things that I enjoyed about math.

Example of Polynomiography Designs

Birthday Polynomiography