Wednesday, July 22

Today at Math Camp our estimation project was to estimate the weight in ounces for a key-chain. For critical thinking, we went to a website called Sporcle, and did the "logical logic puzzle" (pizzeria logic puzzle). The female mathematician for today was Maria Agnesi:

• 1718-1799
• learned 5 languages; Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Spanish
• Her mother died, so she had to educate her younger siblings

Other things we learned about:

• Pentominoes
• Played Mastermind
• Golden Ratio: approx. 1.618

Factorials: 8! = 8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1