Bard Math Camp Day 4

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Day 4 of C.A.M.P. began with a flurry of activity as more campers joined the effort to complete the Mosaic and taught each other new games such as Backgammon and chess.

In Computer Science, we continued on our journey to learning and mastering NetLogo. We also continued to deepen our knowledge of computers and their systems while utilizing concepts from Math to supplement our computer science lessons.

After, in Art, we finally got to work with clay. We used it to creating amazing fractal designs and also showed how precise we could be in our measuring.

Lastly, in Math, we did advanced math using fractals and learned how to calculate the dimensions of any shape. We also learned how there are more than just 1D, 2D, and 3D figures, and sometimes the dimension can be between numbers and less than one. Math challenged us to think outside of the normal constructions of what we hear in everyday life but it also pushed us to connect what we see with what we are learning.

Our electives today included capture the flag, drawing, and the Rubik’s cubes. With our Mosaic almost finished, it’s a race against time.

Japheth Wood

I’m Japheth Wood (he/him), the Bard Math CAMP co-director, and a math professor at Bard College. CAMP (which is an acronym for Creative and Analytical Math Program) is a very special week of the year for our young math community. It's inspiring to see our students return year after year. This is our 11th summer of CAMP! We're back once again on the idyllic Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and thankful to the CAMP students, parents, and staff, for making this mathemagical week happen. Notably, we've (finally) had our first CAMP reunion this past June, an event that I know will grow to be an integral part of what we do.

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Frances Stern

My name is Frances Stern (she/her/hers)! I’ve been teaching math at CAMP since the first year, making sure our math theme has a connection to art and computer. It’s fun to show students math that they don’t see in school. I've retired from daily teaching but continue to teach for the New York Math Circle & students who are seeking more math in their lives. My hobbies include learning to draw, paint, & juggle, reading, walking & folk dancing. I’ve written 2 books for teachers and parents called “Adding Math, Subtracting Tension” (for different age-ranges of children). They pay as much attention to how to keep out of a fight (what many parents told me is a problem) as they do to math.

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