Summer Session Log #8, August 9, 2014

Relationship Among 1D, 2D, and 3D

Attendants G6 = 3 G7 = 6 G8 = 8 G8+ = 1 Parents = 3

Key Notes:
Thanks for the wonderful math projects presented today at the beginning of the session. Elizabeth,
Yasmin, and Hanna all put in extra-ordinary efforts in creating their genuine projects, I am delighted with
seeing their creative presentation. All our mathletes have the creativity, but we just need to motivate
them to make it happen. All projects utilized at least a couple of the math terms required in the Problem
section, followed by the detail step-by-step answer in the Solution section. As a team, we need at least
12 math terms among all the projects presented, please keep on working to help our team reach the
minimum requirements.

Todays session is all about 1-D, 2-D and 3-D which could be observed in almost all the objects around us.
In the problems we solved today, we were given the 1-D, 2-D and 3-D information of a box, then when each
dimenstion is extended by the same amount, we were asked to find the new 3-D volume information
without solving the 1-D or 2-D. This is a skill that everybody could learn with a touch, and the power
review has another 2 samples to making sure everybody learns the idea. Hope that is the case, I am
looking forward to seeing how everybody handles those items in the power review set.

The Just-for-Fun is to prepare for the probability set we are going to do at the last session. Please
encourage your mathlete to put in some quality time. I have added some tips at the end of the page,
please utilize them, and no pains no gains is always the scenario. First, please try to find the pattern,
which is the key to result in the solutions. We will try to discuss this one during the session, unless
everybody gets the answers already by then.

Among all 30 problems presented in the County Sprint set from last year, seven of them are related to
Geometry. That is a bit more than 20%. If you give up those 20%, that will be a big disadvantage.
Since the big majority of us will not have the opportunity studying the Geometry during the middle school
years, and Geometry is a significant part of the MathCount program. We have got to have the mentality
to attack the problems that are related to the Geometry. Most of the problems are not very complicated,
all it takes is a strategy to overcome. That is exactly what we did today. We followed the mathCount
published Tool Box, little by little, a bit at a time, hopefully, by the time when we are ready to take the tests,
we have mastered the big part of the program.

Have an enjoyable rest of the summer!

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