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June 21 - June 25, 2010
Daily Schedule
Current Summer Schedule : BACT Summer Schedule (.pdf)
The summer workshop consists of daily sessions at the UC Berkeley Foothill Suites residence hall in Berkeley, CA.
Workshop will run Monday through Friday, June 21 - June 25, 2010: Morning, afternoon, and evening sessions.
Please note that activities will begin 9am on Monday morning.
We will conclude at 5pm on Friday evening.
Other Important Information:
Participant Confirmation Packet
UC Berkeley Campus Map
UC Berkeley Foothill Suites Map
2010 BACT Summer Workshop Photos
Teaching Files:
Monday:
Paul Zeitz: Mathematical Games
Young People's Project
Tuesday:
Tom Davis's Math Circles website, Ken Ken(.pdf),
T Snyder's KenKen(HARD)
Paul Zeitz: Zomes (.pdf), Zome Tools Website
Art of Problem Solving website
Wednesday:
Matthias Beck: Graph Coloring (.pdf)
Penney Ante: Counterintuitive - Probabilities in Coin Tossing (.pdf)
Thursday:
Lalit Jain:
Sue Van Hattum's Blog (Math Mama Writes)
Sue VanHattum: Pancake Problem (.pdf)
Friday:
Eratosthenes Website
Exploratorium Playground
Other Resources:
Amazon Bookstore of Resources - supports Julia Robinson Math Festival!
BACT Resources
mathcircles.org:
Art of Problem Solving
SFMC Self-Referential Test. MAASelf-Referential Aptitude Test
Notes from Paul for building your Zomes collection:
1) Go to zometool.com
2) If you aren't dying to get tons of zomes right away, just buy a modest kit, and get it "naked" (without expensive plastic boxes to store it). For example, you can get a naked creator kit for $39. It's nowhere near what you NEED, but perhaps you can be patient.
3) Once you are on their email list, wait until they announce a sale (which they do several times each year). Then buy a naked advanced math creator 4 kit ($179 when not on sale, $240 when not naked).
4) You will want AT LEAST the quantity of an advanced math creator 4 kit; you should also get some "hypershort" reds for making hyperdodecahedra (120-cell). Or you can buy the hyperdo kit, which is currenly $139, and not a bad deal. If you wait for a sale, it's better.
5) Once you know what you want (eg., a hyperdo), you can look up the parts list, and then order the parts directly by going to the "parts by the pound" page. Again, wait for sales.
6) Once you are addicted, you will want to get more balls, and get colored balls, and possibly different-colored struts (eg., at Halloween, you can sometimes get glow-in-the-dark struts). Different-colored balls are quite helpful for teaching, but not really necessary.
Lastly,don't forget to buy Zome Geometry, a great resource to get you started!
EVEN better: get together with a group of other teachers for a big order, and Josh may be able to negotiate a deal that can cut prices up to 50%.
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