Ma-ma-ma-Maaaath Team!
Welcome to your weekly MATH TEAM blast, and a warm “aloha” to the 8 new people added to our distribution list.
In our first meeting last week, we had 99 students sign in to 5-Star. Thank you! Two things about that number. First, the eye-ball test tells me that we had closer to 150 kids. Second, from our sample of 6 e-board members (names seen in the cc: line), only (gulp) 3 signed up in 5-Star last week. That makes our numbers possibly as high as 200… a hilariously large number of students. =). As we start up our meeting this week Tuesday, please be sure to login to 5Star as that is how we build out our official roster.
To have a little bit more elbow room and be a little bit less of a fire hazard, we will split into two double rooms. In fact, we usually split into multiple rooms throughout the year so that we can give everyone a bit more attention. This week:
Freshmen and Juniors will be in room 1508/1510
Sophomores and Seniors will be in room 1500/1502
Please come out this week so that we can make sure you are on our roster, make sure you are in the correct google classroom, and to receive a field trip form that works for the whole year. We hope you can make it to one or more of our various competitions, but in order to be eligible, we will need that field trip form.
Most of our time Tuesday will be spent practicing and hearing from coaches or e-board members about our first topic: Probability.
More specifically:
Frosh: Counting Basics and Simple Probability: The emphasis is on organized thinking, not using formulas. May include tree type problems, combinations, and permutations. Any calculator (even CAS) is allowed.
Soph: Geometric Probability: Standard treatment of probability problems with continuous variables using ratios of lengths, areas, and volumes. Any calculator (even CAS) is allowed.
Jr: Probability: The standard treatment of probability. It may include combinations, permutations, mutually exclusive events, dependent and independent events, conditional probability, and expected value. Does not include binomial distribution. Any calculator (even CAS) is allowed.
Sr: Probability: May include combinations, permutations, mutually exclusive events, dependent and independent events, conditional probability, Bayes’ Theorem, binomial distribution, expected value, and geometric probability. Any calculator (even CAS) is allowed.
Please bring your calculators Tuesday! For those that want to dabble with the TI nSpire CAS calculators, please speak with Mr. Anderson or myself during our meeting.
See you Tuesday
8/27/2024
3:35 – 4:30
Freshmen and Juniors in room 1508/1510
Sophomores and Seniors in room 1500/1502
In the meantime, wash your hands a lot and do your best to stay healthy. I’m pretty sure 5 out of every 4 Stevenson students are mildly sick right now.
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