Friday, October 22, 2010

Who Wants to be a Mathematician Field Trip

Some things I learned on this field trip are:
1. a squared plus b squared will always equal c squared
2. There are an infinite amount of fractions between 0 and 1
3. In 2000, people made these math equations that are worth 1 000 000 if you solve one
4. P=NP? is actually a math equation
5. Pythagoras may not have actually created the Pythagorean Theorem
6. Pythagorean Theorem is always true on a plain
7. There are an infinite amount of Pythagorean Triples
8. Gauss astonished his teacher by adding all of the numbers from 1 to 100 very quickly
9. "Chos" or "Choss" or something that sounds like that is a math term
10. i and ! are also math terms


In the talk, I learned some things that are listed above. For the most part, I didn't understand exactly what he was saying like when he started the whole thing about the circle and m and all that stuff. I don't really think that it helped me to learn that much because what I did understand I already knew and what I didn't understand wasn't explained well enough. 


The Workshop could help me in future math learning because I learned that it is easier to work with different people because you have different ideas on how to answer the question. I also learned that hard questions could be solved through much thinking and guess and check.

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