Join us this summer for Camp Mathnasium, where your child will have a blast with math! In addition to fun math games and customized math instruction, our campers will each participate in a different fun, engaging, educational STEM activity every day of the camp! All the activities will be adjusted appropriately to the age and ability level of your child.
Here are the activities we will be doing this year:
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Ciphers and Cryptography: Students will learn the basics of cryptography by learning how to encrypt and decrypt messages using three different ciphers: the Pigpen Cipher, the Caesar Cipher, and the Vigenère Cipher. The goal of this activity is for students to learn the basics of information security using substitution, monoalphabetic, and polyalphabetic ciphers.
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Data Analysis: In this activity students will run various experiments to obtain data while certain conditions are in place. They will then explore their findings using pictographs and bar graphs, as well as looking into mean, median, and mode. The goal of this activity is for students to use the data they obtained to make reasonable conclusions though data analysis.
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Experimental & Theoretical Probability: This activity is played as a game between two students. The overall structure of the games is similar for each level. While the strategy of each game requires recognition of chance, probability, and combinations, prerequisite knowledge of these topics is not necessary. A follow up discussion between the facilitator and students will address the frequencies of the outcomes that the students noticed and why they occurred.
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Expected Value: Students will learn about probability and become aware of the concept of expected value through playing spinner games.
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Financial Literacy I: Students will learn the basics of financial literacy in order to spend, save, and budget money wisely. This includes converting denominations of currency, estimating final bills of sale, calculating change and unit prices, spending according to a predetermined budget, calculating interest on balances in savings accounts and on credit cards, and interpreting basic bank advertising.
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Financial Literacy II: Students will apply their knowledge of financial literacy in activities simulating shopping and employment. This includes earning and spending money, monitoring simple interest bank accounts, and choosing lines of credit. Students must complete Financial Literacy I before engaging in this activity.
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Game Theory: Students will learn about basic game theory, using strategy and logic to inform their decisions while playing the games Nim and Tic-Tac-Toe. In Nim, students will use counting, logic, and multiples to strategize ways to win. In Tic-Tac-Toe, students will use game trees, logic, and transformations to strategize ways to win.
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Geoboards: This activity is designed to give students tasks to improve their spatial awareness. Students will work on creating both well defined and abstract shapes, as well as look into properties of these. This will lead into looking into sample spaces and the geometric probability of various scenarios.
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Maze Coding: Students will learn the building blocks of coding as they program solutions to mazes in this fun, cooperative activity. Students will act as "programmers" and "robots" as they write, run, and debug their codes. At higher levels, students will explore the usefulness of functions in speeding up the coding process. The goal of this activity is to build computational thinking skills through decomposition, pattern recognition, and algorithm design and evaluation.
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Origami: This activity is designed to give kids a look at building 2D and 3D figures out of origami paper. Students will create “Sonobe Units,” which are one of the building blocks of modular origami. They will then use these to create 3D shapes such as a cube and bipyramid.
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Sudoku: In this activity, students will learn what Sudoku puzzles are and how to solve them using the process of elimination and logic.
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Mathematical Art: Students will learn about regular tessellations. Then, taking inspiration from art, like the works of M.C. Escher, they will apply translational, rotational, and reflective symmetry to create tessellation art of their own.
Camp Mathnasium is available:
- June 20 to August 09 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
- 9am - 12pm.
Cost:
- $65/camp day in addition to monthly sessions for currently enrolled students.
- $120/camp day for students not currently enrolled.
Reply to this email with a request, and we'll send you our Summer Camp Activity Guide. We'd love to have your child join us for a memorable math experience this summer!
Syd PASHA
Owner/Management
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