Five members of the Junior Math Team competed in the Junior All-Star Meet hosted by Indian River School on May 23rd.
All placed in the top 15! Here are our results:
4th place, Nat Holland
5th place, Alyssa Charbonneau
7th place, Astrid McFarland
10th place, David Randall
15th place, Faris Al Fahim
Great job on a fun and successful season!!
Congratulations to Luke Pomeroy and Maddy Snide for their participation in the Twin State Math League Junior All-Star meet held on May 22nd!
Special congrats to Luke who earned a 5th place finish! Thank you to both for doing a tremendous job representing our school!!
On Monday, Mr. Bremel and Mrs. Vonada took their Algebra 2 students to Mt. Tom in search of Parabolas in Nature. Parabolas are the "U" shaped graph of quadratics. Algebra 2 students have been studying quadratics and this project was for them to take pictures of nature that appear to model parabolas. They will then do some analysis of their pictures as they overlay them onto graphs. Finally, they will write equations for their parabolas and decide if their nature picture really does model a quadratic. Thank you to Kat Robbins and her Mt. Tom team for a great guided tour and hot chocolate!
The Intermediate Math team brought home their second first place finish in last week's math meet!
Lili Morris, Aidan Keough-Vella, Aubrey Seman and Dext Namkung all worked hard competing in 3 of the 4 sections. They beat out five other teams to come in first place. Dext Namkung was the top scorer for the entire Intermediate division.
There is one meet left and this team is currently in 2nd place overall. They are hoping to have another big win in March to win the whole thing! Congratulations Mathletes!!!!!
Trigonometry students are working hard on a unit circle project. Students selected a teacher or an administrator to design and create a unit circle.
Students had to come up with interview questions and then interview their adult about the design, materials, and special considerations for their unit circle. Then students went to the Innovation Lab and designed and created their adults' unit circle.
When their unit circle is done, students will create a rubric and survey to get feedback on the whole process of this project. The goal is for students to practice interviewing others, designing and creating something that someone else gives the details about, creating a rubric and survey that will provide them with feedback on their process and product, and finally, using feedback to help them improve all of these skills.
The Intermediate Math Team (grades 9 and 10) won the math meet in their division yesterday at Lebanon High School! They competed against 5 other teams from other high schools in the area.
The team members include Lia Gugliotta, Jack Quicker, Dex Namkung, Aubrey Seman and Lucy Drebitko. Congratulations to our mathletes!!!!!!!!
Algebra II students used Virtual Reality to learn about rooftop gardens and maximizing areas in an urban area. Students had to come up with the best possible design for the garden, write the equation and then graph it, all in virtual reality.
Mr. Villanueva uses a Treasure Hunt to help his Geometry students understand concepts.
Mr. V had the students play an origami game, where they use their visual perception to make a pirate hat. Donning their pirate hats students had to follow one of the two different paths with the clues to find the treasure. In order to open the chest they had to show Mr. V their thinking over the map.
We started "Constructions" a week ago and today we were reviewing the 4 loci or geometric places that satisfies one condition. Same distance from one point, two points, one line and two lines. Besides it being a little cold some of them had fun and started Halloween with a little extra candy.
Trigonometry students are working on graphing sine curves using smaller prototypes of water wheels that were made by the NUVU lab. Students were tasked with creating a proposal for a city that needs a waterwheel installed to generate electricity. They could change the height, the size and the speed of the water wheel to give ideas to the city council on which one they should choose.
