2/2/2020 -- Beginners 2A: Calendar Mathematics

Intro: How many days are in a year? How are leap years counted? Why do we include every 400 years, but not 100, 200, or 300? Hint: a year is technically about 365.25 days - 11 minutes.

In this handout we examine how to systematically perform calculations to find the day of the week (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc.) a particular date is, e.g., your birthday