Scribe Post for November 5, 2009

Hello, this is Melanie (: I'm today's scribe, and I hope you'll learn from the information below (;

We had an ordinary day, like usual. The guys were doing the robot stuff, the the girls were doing their presentation research.

Honestly, I'm really behind on my work, so I'm trying super hard to catch up.

For almost three classes, I just realized (I mean, Mr.B realized) that I was researching on a website that was way off my grade level. So... he showed me this other one, that made way more sense that the previous one. Thanks Mr.B (;

By the way, I'm researching on the Indian Civilization.

Well, these are some things I learned in class today:

1. The Harappans were the first "known" people to use numbers (3000 BC).

(HINT-HINT: I put "known" in quotation marks, because that's all the information we have so far. So, there is a possibility that there were earlier people that have used numbers, but we don't have any proof of it being recorded.)

2.

a) Around 3000 BC, people in India began using the "counting tokens" that people were "already" using in West Asia.

(HINT-HINT: The people in India didn't invent the counting tokens.)

b) "Counting Tokens" are clay tokens, of many different shapes and sizes, that represent something.

eg. a little clay ball = pig

a little clay pyramid = chicken

2 little clay balls and 5 little clay pyramids = 2 pigs and 5 chickens

Well, those are only some facts. I'm going to continue my research, and hopefully you'll understand my presentation later on.

And sorry that there aren't any pictures. It just won't let me drag them to their right place.

If you still don't understand, or you want to find more information about the above, click here.

Thanks for checking out my scribe, and please leave a comment.

By the way, for the next scribe, I choose Muriel (:

Scribe Post October 6th, 2009

Hey enriched math class of the year 2009-10, I am the first post for this thing.. Which is awesome! Well, today we started to research on the many different nationalities and their math systems such as the sumerians, babylonians, mayans, indians, chinese, ancient egyptians, and others.. That was only for one half of the people in the class. The other half started on their lego robotic kits and i think that they just started to get use to what they were working with. I don't know really because I am not in that lucky group. I don't know what else to put on this because today was pretty easy on the work. Thankyou for your time! :)