Report of the 2001 UNB - ESSO Math Camp

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1 Report of the 2001 UNB - ESSO Math Camp Distributed to: Barry Lydon, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Education, Province of NB John McLaughlin, Vice President Academic, UNB Al Sharp, Dean of Science, UNB John Thompson, Chair Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, UNB Graham Wright, Executive Director, Candian Mathematical Society

2 The 2001 UNB - ESSO Math Camp The second annual UNB - ESSO Math Camp was held from May 11 to May 13, Nineteen students from 10 different schools attended the Camp, which was held on the Fredericton Campus of the University of New Brunswick. A list of the students is attached. The Camp was organized by Barry Monson and Daryl Tingley from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNB Fredericton. The Canadian Mathematical Society began actively promoting math camps about four years ago. Initially there was one camp. Since 1999 the Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation has made annual donations to the CMS to fund mathematics camps. In 1999 there were 3 camps. In the year camps will run. The camps vary considerably in size and length, but they have one thing in common: Mathematics! UNB s Math Camp began on the day that the New Brunswick Mathematics Competition (for grades 7, 8, and 9) was held. (The NB Mathematics Competition is organized jointly by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of UNB, the Faculty of Science, UNB and the School of Engineering of l Université de Moncton.) Since the results of the Competition are used to choose which students to invite to the Camp, the Camp nicely complements the Competition. The camp was a great success. The students enjoyed the organized mathematical activities, and the free time (when they usually played games) (Evaluation forms are available from D. Tingley.) Like last year, we were critized for putting too much into the weekend. That may be true: we worked them very hard. Nonetheless, as the evaluation forms show, the students enjoyed themselves. Attached is a copy of the program, which shows the great variety of activities. On May 14, the Fredericton Gleaner ran a nice article about the Camp. (A copy is attached.) Such publicity is surely good both for mathematics and the University. Invitations We selected students for the camp using the results from the NB Mathematics Contests (grades 7 to 9). We looked for students who had done well in more than one contest. Invitations were sent in early March to twenty nine students in Grades 10 and 11. Twenty one of these accepted but unfortunately 2 dropped out before the camp began. Funding Funding for the Camp was provided by the Canadian Math Society, through a grant from the Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation, The Province of New Brunswick (Dept of Education), and The University of New Brunswick. A financial statement is attached. 1

3 Thanks The success of the camp was due, to a great extent, to our excellent speakers: Vicar Husein Margret Beattie (from Mount Allison University) Barry Monson, Roman Mureika, and Don Small. Organizing a camp takes a lot of work behind the scenes as well. Thanks go to Linda Guthrie, Janice Phillips and Eleanor Perrin from the UNB Math-Stats departmental office; to Trevor Jones who stayed in the residence with the students; to Caroline Baskerville from the CMS Executive office; to Graham Wright (Executive Director of the CMS), for arranging funding from The Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation and persuading UNB that they should run the Camp; and to Gordon Mason (Acting Chair, UNB Math-Stats dept) and Al Sharp (Dean, UNB Faculty of Science) for arranging funding from the University and NB provincial government. Daryl Tingley 2

4 Students who participated in the 2001 UNB - ESSO Math Camp: GRADE 10 NAME SCHOOL DISTRICT Ryan Arsenault Polyvalente Mathieu-Martin 01 Patrick Drost Leo Hayes High School 18 Olivier Godbout Polyvalente A.-J. Savoie 05 Zakaria Hamza Ecole Sainte-Anne 01 ndsay Lord Bathurst High School 15 Lindsay Lord Bathurst High School 15 Stuart MacGillivrary Fredericton High School 18 Alex Shen Saint John High School 08 Nick Spacek Harvey High School 18 Andrea Spencer Fredericton High School 18 GRADE 11 NAME SCHOOL DISTRICT Elliot Braganza Fredericton High School 18 Richard Cyr Cité-des-Jeunes-A.-M. Sormany 03 Daniel Fletcher Harvey High School 18 Jason Hornosty Fredericton High School 18 Josh Hudson Miramichi Valley High School 16 Andrei Nechita Saint John High School 08 Jordan Pinder Miramichi Valley High School 16 Andrew Read Fredericton High School 18 Rachel Savidge Fredericton High School 18 Andrea Weirathmueller Fredericton High School 18 3

5 UNB ESSO MATH CAMP MAY 11-13, 2001 PROGRAM FRIDAY, MAY 11 10:00-11:00 - Students assemble in Mathematics Department, Tilley Hall, Room T :00 - Students begin working on some neat problems. T224 12:00 - Lunch with the N. B. Mathematics Competition contestants. Student Union Building 1:00 - Students attend the exhibits, demonstrations (or continue with problems, T224). 3:00 - Students can check into rooms or attend Competition Ceremony in the Aitken Centre. 4:00 - Check into rooms 5:00 - Dinner. All meals are to be in McConnell Hall 6:30-8:30 - Prof Small: Introduction to Summation - Prof Tingley: More Summation - Problems 8:30 - Informal games, eg. crokinole, cards, etc. 11:00 - In rooms, lights out soon after. SATURDAY, MAY 12 8:00-8:45 - Breakfast. 9:00-11:30 - Prof Monson: Symmetry, Reflections, Billiard Balls... 12:00-1:00 - Lunch 1:30-3:00 - Prof Mureika: Counting 3:30-4:30 - Prof Husain: Knots 5:00-6:00 - Dinner 6:30-8:30 - Mathematical Puzzles and Paradoxes 8:30 - Free Time 11:00 - In rooms, lights out soon after. SUNDAY, MAY 13 8:30-9:15 - Breakfast. 9:30-10:30 - Prof Beattie: Pythagorean Triples 10:30-12:00 - Problems Wind Up 12:00-1:00 - Lunch 1:00-2:00 - Math Relays HOME 4

6 CMS - ESSO MATH CAMP 2001 FINANCIAL STATEMENT REVENUE: Canadian Math. Society $ NB Prov. Dept. of Education $ UNB (V.P.(Academic)) $ $ EXPENSES: Residence Accommodations $ Meals $ Snacks (juice/pop/fruit/cookies/chips/etc.) $ Printing of T-Shirts $90.60 Office Supplies, Photocopying, etc. $ Postage $12.68 Physical Plant $63.08 Assistants $ Planning Luncheons $ Contingency for future camps $ $ Daryl Tingley October 9,

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