ORMC Meetings • 2022-2023 Academic Year

Students will study the Polybius and Caesar cyphers.

Students will warm up solving an anagram. Then they will study the pigpen and rail fence ciphers.

Students will take one last look at ciphers, solve fun problems of other types, and take a quiz on ciphers.

Students will continue their study of logic.

Students will continue studying math logic.

Students will finish the Intro to Math Logic mini-course and take a quiz. If time permits, they will start a new topic, Lineland.

Students will continue studying various shapes intersecting lines and planes.

Students may possibly start the next topic, Traveling on a Cube, if time permits.

We will cover Chapter 15 -- exploring how objects in a higher number of dimensions look when projected into a smaller number.

We will cover Flatland, in which 3-dimensional objects are projected into a 2d space over time. Handouts will be released shortly.

We will cover the topic of shortest paths on a geometric figure.

Multiplication is standardly introduced as repeated addition. In this lesson, students will learn that division can be introduced as repeated subtraction.

Students will continue practicing the trick and discussing the reason it works.

We return to functions, using them, and operations involving fractions, to solve modeling problems and word problems.

We will talk about the definitions of arithmetic progressions and how to sum them up.

Students will first discuss homework from lesson 29, starting with the red pepper problem 29.4. Then, if time permits, they will begin reviewing lesson 27.

Students will start learning basics of mod n arithmetic, that of a circle divided into n equal parts.