UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle

ORMC Meetings • 2023-2024 Academic Year

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6/25/2023

Students will study the Polibius and Caesar ciphers.

7/9/2023

Students will study anagrams, the pigpen and rail fence ciphers.

7/16/2023

Students will study 3D solids and their 2D projections.

7/23/2023

Students will be constructing all the 3D solids having given 2D projections.

7/30/2023

Students will study lesson 9 from the course book.

8/6/2023

Students will pay a virtual visit to the Island of Knights and Liars. Students will have to solve logic puzzles based on the habits of the islanders.

8/13/2023

Students will learn the definition of a statement and how the AND operation acts on statements.

8/20/2023
8/27/2023

Students will continue studying Boolean algebra.

10/1/2023

Students will review clock arithmetic and learn the applications of mod 360 arithmetic to measuring angles and to timekeeping.

10/8/2023

Students will review unit of measurements such as time and learning about coordinates on the globe

10/15/2023

Students will learn about Earth's poles and practice calculating time based off Earth's movement.

10/22/2023

Students will use modular arithmetic to convert time on Planet Heptadium. In the second half of the class, will learn how to solve different types of cryptarithms.

10/29/2023

Students will learn about prime numbers and practice using divisibility patterns.

11/5/2023

Students will continue learning how to use Modular Arithmetic to solve ciphers as well as review divisibility rules from last week.

11/19/2023

Students will working on the Ciphers and Functions Packet.

12/3/2023

Students will finish reviewing the previous week's handout and then complete a practice Math Kangaroo.

12/10/2023

Students will play a review Jeapordy Game

1/7/2024

Students will begin studying the fundamental properties of geometry through introduction handouts.

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1/14/2024

Students will learn to utilize a ruler and compass to construct triangles and evaluate congruence proofs. They will also continuing focusing on rays and straight angles.

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1/21/2024

Students will review the past geometry concepts ( rays, lines, and triangle constructions) through a test and begin learning about the Pythagorean Theorem.

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1/28/2024

Students will use the triangle congruency postulates they have learned to prove different identities of a Rhombus and begin learning about the Pythagorean theorem.

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2/4/2024

Students will continue learning about how to use right angles and triangle congruences to prove the Pythagorean Theorem. If there is time, they will begin learning about line segments in the Geometry Workbook.

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2/18/2024

Students will continue learning about the Euclidean Plane, focusing on vectors and learning basic physic properties.

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2/25/2024

Students will continue learning about vectors and begin doing vector algebra such as addition.

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3/3/2024

Students will continue their handout from last week, solidifying their knowledge of vector addition and drawing them.

3/10/2024

Students will spend the last class of the quarter playing a jeopardy style review game on the topics covered this quarter.