Advanced Summer Camp for students age 11-14
who show high promise and love mathematics

A MathPath Day

WE WORK HARD & WE PLAY HARD!

A day at Mathpath begins with wake-up at 7 am and ends with bedtime at 10:30 pm. Do not apply to MathPath if you can't go to bed by 10:30 pm. Lights are out at that time. Academic activities take place Tuesday through Saturday.

The schedule below is to provide you with an idea of the type of classes and sessions that take place at the camp. The actual time of the day for a topic or an activity may vary from year to year. Additional topics and activities are offered. Some of the topics in past years have included Ramsey Theory, Partitions, visualizing figures in 4-d, and generating conics using projectivities.

6:30-7:30 am: Math Vibrations -- Working on Problem of the Day or reading over notes from the previous day --, this is an optional activity supervised by the professors.
8:30 am: History of mathematics. Stories of the discovery of mathematics, survey of important concepts.
9:30 am: Breakout Sessions - Several sessions run simultaneously on topics such as heuristics of problem solving, analytic geometry, topics and methods from combinatorics, and practice with modular arithmetic and other ideas and tools of mathematics.

10:30 am:
Visiting Speakers - Lecture series
2:45 pm: Writing in mathematics -- Introduction to logic, and the basics of mathematical proofs
3:30 pm: Breakout sessions - Several sessions run sumltaneously. Some are courses such as Hyperbolic Geometry and Spherical Trigonometry. Some sessions are problems seminars -- sharpening student’s skills in dealing with non-routine, unconventional, essay-type mathematical problems. Collaborative learning, individualized attention, working in small groups
4:30 pm: Contest practice sessions -- MathCounts, AMC-8, and AMC-10 for students entering grade 7. MathCounts and AIME for students entering grade 8. AIME and USAMO for students entering grade 9

5:15 pm: Wrap up -- Problem of the Day or Overnight Project

5:30-6:30 pm: Dinner -- Phone or email home

Evenings are planned around the athletic and social needs of the students.

Weekend - which will be Sunday and Monday - Trips to the various attractions in the area as well as nature trips, hiking, biking, kayaking, and the like.

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