Announcements for the Family Math Club.

[weekly announcement] Family Math Camp 2010 Registration Now Open

 

This year Family Math Camp will be one day only, on Monday July 26th 2010 from 9am to 5pm. It will be open to kids aged 9 to 16. (Older kids can have a helper role.) Ithaca College will be hosting a Geogebra conference during this week--Geogebra is amazing free math software that is sweeping the educational community. Family Math Camp will be having a mathematical play date with some of the acclaimed math educators attending the conference. Even if you can't make it to the Math Camp, take a look at their websites for some fantastic math projects:
http://www.mathplayground.com by Colleen King
http://www.naturalmath.com by Maria Droujkova
http://www.geogebra.org
In addition to projects in the computer lab, we'll go on a mathematical nature walk and we'll do a few mathematical crafts.

Registration for Family Math Camp 2010 will be open from Friday June 11th until Friday June 25th. We will announce who has been accepted by July 2nd. To register please fill out the form at
http://familymath.org/2010-family-math-camp-registration.

-Larry

 

 

[weekly announcement] Which door is the prize behind? Puzzles in probability with Harold Mills

 

You are a contestant on a game show. The game show host hides a prize behind one of three doors, and you have to guess which door hides the prize. Is there any way to increase your chances of picking the right door? Can thinking about such issues delve into deep and entertaining mathematics? Come to Family Math Club at 2pm on Sunday 5/16 to find out!

Note that this is the last club meeting for the season.

-Larry

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The Family Math Club meets most Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Meetings are free and open to everyone. Both kids and adults report enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle and then along a straight stretch. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. There is usually parking nearby. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.

 

 

[weekly announcement] 5/9 Math Club Meeting: Geogebra Software Bridges School Math and Fun Math; Family Math Camp Meeting

 

On Sunday May 9th Math Club will be lead by Ithaca College Math Professor Dani Novak and will be devoted to GeoGebra, the free geometry/algebra software that bridges the gap between "School Math" and "Fun Math".  Dani will give an introduction to the software during the first part of the meeting, followed by a discussion of the Geogebra Conference being hosted by Ithaca College this summer. Those of you who have enjoyed Family Math's annual Math Camp will be interested to note that the Math Camp will be integrated with the Geogebra Conference this year. The Math Camp and Conference are scheduled for July 26th to 28th (though we're not yet taking camp registrations). If you're planning to sign up for the Math Camp, this Math Club Meeting will give you an advance introduction to GeoGebra and an opportunity to have some input about Math Camp.

More about Geogebra
Many kids who study Math in school do not like it because it has no meaning for them. Using GeoGebra students learn to make use of Math in a meaningful way. The name GeoGebra is a hybrid between Geometry and AlGebra. Using GeoGebra it is easy to simulate "real life scenarios".  We will be using the work developed by Linda Stojanovska from Macedonia who is becoming one of the world experts in simulation design for education. Linda's web page http://math247.pbworks.com/ has a rich collection of simulations that can be used by students and homeschoolers to learn Math. After some brief introduction to GeoGebra we will focus on the "Boat Landing Problem" that Linda developed:
http://www.mathcasts.org/mtwiki/Gq/CalculusBoatLandin

-Larry

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The Family Math Club meets most Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Meetings are free and open to everyone. Both kids and adults report enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle and then along a straight stretch. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. There is usually parking nearby. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.

 

 

[weekly announcement] the math behind video, still images, and animation

 

The next Math Club meeting is scheduled for Sunday 5/2 from 2 to 3:30 (directions below). Our presenter writes "We'll take a look at some of the math behind video, still images, and animation, and see how pixels (picture elements) quickly add up to mega-pixels (MP) and affect picture quality. Learn about camera pixels and memory requirements for video and animation, see an animation creation demo, and get started making your own simple animations! Presented by Cliff Roth, director of Ithaca Media Arts, a new learning center on Route 79 for exploring video, animation, filmmaking, photography, and sound."

-Larry

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The Family Math Club meets most Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Meetings are free and open to everyone. Both kids and adults report enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle and then along a straight stretch. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. There is usually parking nearby. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.

 

 

[weekly announcement] Math Fun Day is tomorrow!

 

Family Math will host our spring Math Fun Day, featuring Mike Stanley the Mathematical Magician and featuring Pat's Lego Robots, in Williams Hall (see directions below) on Saturday April 24th 10am to 10pm.

Further note that there will be no Math Club meeting on Sunday April 25th.

-Larry

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The Family Math Club meets most Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Meetings are free and open to everyone. Both kids and adults report enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle and then along a straight stretch. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. There is usually parking nearby. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.

 

 

[weekly announcement] Master Scratch (the Programming Language for Kids) and Hang with the Scratch Masters

 

Imagine you have a stage with hundreds of sets and sound effects and actors. Imagine you can make these things do whatever you tell them to do. That's Scratch. It's a programming language for kids. I've been teaching Scratch for several years and it's a great way for people of all ages to have fun while incidentally thinking mathematically.

At our Math Club meeting this Sunday 4/18 people who are new to Scratch will learn how to create simple games, art, and music with Scratch. Intermediate Scratchers can hone their skills with some puzzles I created for Boynton Math Day. Advanced Scratchers can get help from their peers to take their pojects to the next level.

Note that Family Math will host our spring Math Fun Day, featuring Mike Stanley the Mathematical Magician and featuring Pat's Lego Robots, in Williams Hall (see directions below) on Saturday April 24th 10am to 10pm.

Further note that there will be no Math Club meeting on Sunday April 25th.

-Larry

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The Family Math Club meets most Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Meetings are free and open to everyone. Both kids and adults report enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle and then along a straight stretch. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. There is usually parking nearby. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.

 

 

[weekly announcement] another correction: Math Camp to be 7/26 to 7/30

 

Aaargh! The previous email should ALSO have read:

* Save the date: we've set the dates for our annual Math Camp to be ***7/26 to 7/30***. You can read about previous Math Camps at:
http://familymath.org/math-camp

-Larry

 

 

[weekly announcement] correction: Math Fun Day is on Saturday 4/24

 

The previous email should have read:

* There will be a Math Fun Day on Saturday ***4/24*** 10am to 1pm featuring Mike Stanley the Mathematical Magician who was so very popular last month and also featuring the Lego Robotics of Pat. More details to follow.

-Larry

 

 

[weekly announcement] no club meeting next Sunday 4/4; Math Camp 6/25 to 6/30

 

Hi all. Note the following:

* There will be no club meeting next Sunday 4/4.

* The club meeting on 4/11 will be Game Day: Bring a Game, Teach a Game, Learn a Game.

* There will be a Math Fun Day on Saturday 4/11 10am to 1pm featuring Mike Stanley the Mathematical Magician who was so very popular last month and also featuring the Lego Robotics of Pat. More details to follow.

* Save the date: we've set the dates for our annual Math Camp to be 6/25 to 6/30. You can read about previous Math Camps at:
http://familymath.org/math-camp

-Larry

 

 

[weekly announcement] learn a little electronics

 

Have you every purchased an electronics kit for yourself or a child, but never found the time to play with it to learn what all the little parts do? Now is your chance! My kids and I have several such kits. One is a beginner's kit with parts that snap together. Another is a more advanced "breadboard" with rows of holes for electronics parts to poke into. And we also have a couple of Arduino microcontrollers, which can run programs downloaded from a computer. One of the Arduino boards controls the Family Math blimp that we flew at the recent Light in Winter Hall of Wonders (see http://familymath.org/node/250). 

This Sunday I'll bring my electronics kits to the Math Club, you can bring yours if you have some, we'll share what we know about electronics, we'll make stuff, and we'll fly the blimp!

-Larry

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The Family Math Club meets most Sundays from 2pm to 3:30pm on the third floor of Williams Hall on the Ithaca College Campus. Meetings are free and open to everyone. Both kids and adults report enjoying the club. To get to the club travel to South Hill on 96B. Turn into the Ithaca College main entrance. Go three fourths around the circle and then along a straight stretch. Take the first right (a sign here says "admissions"). Williams Hall is the second building on your left. There is usually parking nearby. Enter either the front or the back and take either the stairs or the elevator to the third floor.

 

 

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