UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle

ORMC Meetings • 2022-2023 Academic Year

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6/26/2022

Students will study the Polybius and Caesar cyphers.

7/10/2022

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

7/17/2022

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

Handouts: Lesson 10
7/24/2022

Students will continue their study of logic.

7/31/2022

Students will continue studying math logic.

8/7/2022

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

8/14/2022

Students will continue studying various shapes intersecting lines and planes.

8/21/2022

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

9/25/2022

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

10/2/2022

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

10/9/2022
10/16/2022
10/23/2022

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

10/30/2022
11/6/2022
11/20/2022
12/4/2022
1/8/2023

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

1/22/2023
1/29/2023

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

2/5/2023

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

2/19/2023

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

2/26/2023
3/5/2023

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.

3/12/2023

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

4/2/2023
4/9/2023
4/16/2023
4/23/2023
4/30/2023
5/7/2023
5/14/2023
5/21/2023