Julia Robinson Day at UNC
The Julia Robinson Math Festival Day is a celebration of mathematics designed for middle school girls only. The event is set for Saturday, March 27, 2010. The UNC Charlotte math club Pi Mu Epsilon, the Charlotte Teachers' Circle, and the UNC Math and Science Department are the main sponsors.
The organizers envision Pi Mu Epsilon members, UNC Charlotte graduate students and Davidson College undergraduates, high school members of the Charlotte Math Club and Charlotte Teachers Circle teachers manning tables or rooms, each with a single activity on which they have been coached (or learned at CTC). Registration and secretarial support is supplied by the UNC Charlotte College of Education Outreach Office, Victor Mack, director.
In late October, problems will be available for each of grades six through eight. Each participating teacher will distribute the appropriate ones to some of their students, and will later get to name a prize winner among the participating females. Prizes provided by desJardins/Blackman fund.
The idea is that students will earn tickets for solving problems (perhaps just for trying hard) which they can use at the end of the day to buy prizes. For example there will be a Kenken table. We have prizes donated by www.mathartfun.com with promises of donations from UNC Charlotte, American Math Society (AMS), AK Peters, and Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Another generous donor is TK's Positive Shirts and Gifts. Texas Instruments has also been very generous with t-shirts and calculator prizes. See the MathRocks girl at the website. Dr. Tim Chartier and his wife Tonya have agreed to perform their very entertaining show Mathematics Mime during the Saturday afternoon part of the program.
We expect to host Joshua Zucker, national director of JRMF,
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Prize Problems:
Kenken, A kenken problem that uses the digits 2, 4, 6, and 8.
Other prize problems
Kenken, A kenken problem that uses the digits 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9..
Other prize problems
Kenken, A kenken problem that uses the digits 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, and 9.
Other prize problems