Student's Reports

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Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Modeling Your World during the first session of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Today was really really fun. We tried to figure out problems and stuff like that.

Kati

Today was good. We had a guest lecturer who talked about SunRayce '99 and magic squares, and showed us a prototype for a calculator he was helping design. Then, we learned about ciphers and decoding.

Andrew and Osvaldo

Today was very fun. A mathematician came in and talked more about abstractness. Afterwards we worked on cryptology. I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot. Do you know how to change the roman numerals 23 over ( or divided by) 7 = the roman numeral 2 into a pretty good approximation? I do! You can move any of the lines that make up the numeral to another location. When you find it out you'll feel quite dumb. Ha! Ha!

Ari

Today was the last day of Math Exploration. We did magic squares. I figured out one by myself. Then we had break. When we came inside we figured out codes. Today was a lot of fun.

Michelle

Today, we talked with a scientist who was an ex- Navy Seal! He told us about "Magic Squares" an how to solve them. He also informed us about a solar-powered car race that was currently going on.

Andrew and Bruce

Today we had Dr. Dan, uh, Warner, an ex-Navy SEAL, teach us. He had us fill out magic squares and started us out on a magic triangle. Then, with Jon and Adam, we had a short course in cryptology, the "art" of making and breaking codes. At the end, we got t-shirts and certificates. THE END.

John

Today in  the after noon we did this thing with dr. dan 
warner it was more fun than the other guest lecturer and 
we did more hands on thing it was the bomb.

 Amos