Day 4, Mat194: Mathematical Sciences Seminar

• I'm returning
  • Posters (greatest hits)
  • Math Trek summaries

• Let's take a few minutes to compare notes: check with some neighbors, and see how others mocked up their posters.....

• Let me collect your homework:
  • One-page summary of College Math Journal topic of your choice.
  • I'll also collect any evaluations of talks that have taken place this past week.

• New Homework:

  Wed

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  Tips and Tricks; Voting

  Read Fibonacci (p. 44), and the Golden Rectangle (p. 48) sections of your book. Bring to class some object from nature which illustrates the Fibonacci numbers. It must be an object, separate from yourself!

• Upcoming talks and events:
  • Consider attending this Friday's seminar: Steve Wilkinson's Bending and Twisting of Curves, part II
  • I Love Math Night (math club)
  • Fred Roberts who graduated from NKU in computer science back in 1984 is the College of Informatics Outstanding Alumni Award Winner for 2010 and will give a presentation tomorrow night, Thursday, February 4, from 6:15 to 7:30 in SU 107. The title of his presentation is "How to Find a Job--How to Keep One. Flyer with more details.

• Glendale Lamiseria, from the Philippines (teaching Mathematics for 13 years to high school students in a public school located in a rural area; teaches Geometry (3rd year HS) and Advance Algebra (4th Year HS).
• Emmanuel, from South Africa (not sure yet)

What would you like to know from someone who teaches high school in completely different cultures?

1. number systems
2. Fibonacci numbers and golden rectangles
3. proofs
4. chaos
5. e
6. fractals
7. genetics
8. codes
9. i
10. money math

You were to

• Rank them ALL
• Which is the winner?
• How do we select the top 5?
• Here's the vote data.

What have you decided?

And the winners are:

1. Fibonacci numbers and golden rectangles
2. money math
3. chaos
4. genetics
5. codes