SB
Family School's
Spring Break Camps
“for
kids who like to play with numbers”
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MatheMagics
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March
25 - 28, 2014
- Who: This camp is recommended
for students who are in Grade 4 through Grade 9.
- Where: It is held at a home
near the Goleta Library, in a large room dedicated to Math Education.
- When: The camp meets Tuesday
to Friday, 8:45-11:45 a.m. or 2:00-5:00 p.m.
- How: The instructor:student
ratio is at least 1:6. The cost is $150 for the 4-day session.
- Why: For those who cannot [wait to] attend summer camps, and to promote MAM.
April is Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM), a promotion of
the Joint Policy
Board for Mathematics, which is a collaborative effort of the four main
professional mathematics organizations:
the American Mathematical Society,
the Mathematical Association of America,
the American Statistical Association,
and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Its purpose is to "increase
public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics".
Each year,
a theme is selected for Mathematics Awareness Month and SB Family School
offers a thematically-related Spring Break camp. (In fact, one of our current summer camps,
The Math
f Sp
rts
& the Sp
rt
f
Math, was
originally developed for the 2010 MAM theme of "Mathematics and
Sport.")
In 2014, the theme is Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery. This theme was selected in honor of the Centennial of Martin Gardner's birth, and is the title of his first book. Thus our 2014 Spring Camp will be the favorite of all our summer math camps:
MatheMagics.
Mathematical magic
tricks will be demonstrated and then we'll investigate the math behind
them. Campers will learn to perform the tricks, and practice them on each
other. On Friday, parents & siblings are invited to come early for a magic show performance. The areas of math we'll explore include
arithmetic, number bases, algebra, topology, and probability. Campers
should be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, and
understand fractions.
The advanced session for older kids will involve new tricks with more sophisticated mathematical
concepts.