Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Math Explorations, Session A, 2000 during the second day of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

It was alot of fun and I learned alot about rotating and filing.


Merrill

Today was great. I learned  plenty of "stuff" 
but I still don't get it. Sometimes it was
hard to consentrate, but I still had fun. 
I learned a lot of "stuff" about symmetry and
lot's of other "stuff".But other than that 
Mike was so cool. He made Math Explorations
fun. He even taught how to juggle the wrong way. 
So watch out everybody. 


B'anca and Estelle

Today, we had a guest speaker that was quite 
boring. He made us rotate and flip triangles
for 2 hours.  Overall, it was very informative, 
but if he did it over again, he needs to
watch where he's juggling. At least before 
he breaks someone's foot or the lights.


Edren

Today I had a great time in Math Explorations.  
We studied the Koch Snowflake and abstract
algebra.  I really liked drawing the different 
snowflakes and I learned a lot.


Sophia

I understood everything today and it was very 
intresting.


Sarah

Today I learned about fratals.  I learned how 
to draw fractals.  We also talked about
rotating triangles and how to put your answers 
in a chart. He show some of the rotations
by juggling.


Tekoa

Today we worked on math.  Today was very 
boring we had no fun except for our break.  We
spent most of the time playing with triangles 
for 2 hours.  The only good time was
watching the person who came in juggle. 


Ben

Today in math class I learned abought Abstract 
Algebra. He taught  us a table. We played
with triangles to learn.


Ruth

Today in math explorations we learned about 
symmetric juggling. 


Robert and Ryan

Today we studied Fractals and symmetry.  
First, we studied the pattern in the "Koch
Snowflake", then we used our own design, 
which was basically the same using squares
instead of triangles, and drew the first 
few steps.  After our break we worked with the
semmetry of triangles and made a table of the 
possible combinations of flips and
rotations.


Mike and Greg

Today in Math Explorations we worked 
with lines of symmetry and fractals.


Tallman