Sage Park Middle School
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
General:
Week 11: Math Art!
Week 10: Pascal's Triangle
Challenge Activity: The Golden Ratio
Week 9: Secret Codes
These are instructions on how to make the sonobe unit which we started today, and how to start assembling them together. A video version is here.
Challenge for this week: Make the cube, octahedron, and/or icosahedron from the sonobe units!
Week 8: The Guard Problem & Math Games!
See last week's packet for the guard problem we worked on
See here if you want to practice some 24 for next time we play!
Challenge Problems: Work on any of the problems from last week's packet that you haven't done
Week 7: More Problem Solving
Challenge Problems: Work on any of the problems from the packet that you don't have time to finish
Week 6: Pi Day
Challenge Problems: Work on any of the problems we didn't get to today
Week 5: Proof By Contradiction
This week's "challenge problems": Find something on the resource list to dig deeper into, and write a few sentences about what you learned!
Week 4: Number Theory
Week 3: Knot Theory
To do for next time: Complete the exercises on this slip of paper!
Week 2: Game Theory
Week 1: Introduction
To do: Read and sign the welcome packet!
*Problems are taken from the University of Nottingham’s Shell Centre for Math Education, Martin Gardner’s math puzzle books, the Bay Area’s Math Olympiad site, and Alex Bellos's "Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers". Others are classic riddles/problems that can be found in many places.