2004 Schedule

Summerscape Schedule-Actual
Date 9-10 am 10-11 am 11-12 am

Individual/Team Test Activity Countdown Round together
21-Jun Sprint of 1999 to set teams.  Prior year MathCounts material available for ordering from http://www.mathcounts.org Nim-using M and M's finish going over sprint test
22-Jun countdown-chapter 98, pi song 10:30-noon- computer lab (Set and Xactika) 10:30-noon-computer lab (Set and Xactika)
23-Jun Team of chapter 99 Measurement of heights (building, trees, thrown ball), slope song finish going over team test
24-Jun 9-10:30 Computer lab (letter math-website and paper airplanes) 9-10:30 Computer lab (paper airplanes, origami, polyhedra, tesselations, fractals--websites) target chapter 99 and go over
25-Jun countdown- Wash Math Olympiad practice problems -do indiv and then team/jeopardy style(in room with computer on internet)

26-Jun food--Chapter Team of 00  Measurement of Pi (circular objects-outside)-a couple Pi songs go over team 00
27-Jun no classes

28-Jun State Team of 99 10:30-noon- computer lab (logic puzzles and deciphering codes-websites) 10:30-noon-computer lab (logic puzzles and deciphering codes-websites)
29-Jun chapter target of 00 Line Activity (Do wave on count-graph it, can we get equation, use graphing calc, move into exponential?, A couple Line songs math career talk -BRIEF-career songs
30-Jun 9-9:30   evaluation and brownies 9:30-11:00- computer lab (explore contest website--anything else we've done) 18 countdown questions from 98-to see on progress of the week
1-Jul 9-10:   Open House--powerpoint with some countdown problems, mathcounts pictures, group photos



















Additional materials for use in math contest preparation are linked at http://www.sbuniv.edu/~khopkins/tournoth.html  


Results from this Summerscape course and the MathCounts coaching will be part of a talk Dr. Hopkins will give at Gifted Association of Missouri Conference,  Oct 10-12, and hopes to give at the Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics  Conference, Dec. 04, AND Interface 2005, Feb. 2005 .  As the talk is prepared, handouts from it will be linked here.