January Eureka Apprentice

January Eureka Apprentice

Study/Learn

Welcome to Eureka!  Are you ready for some amazing discoveries, engaging conversation, and fascinating inventions (YOUR inventions)?

1. Pull out the ancient calculating device.  Bring your abacus to class, please!

Beginner Abacus Students: 


Continue practicing by filling out worksheet #3 from this PDF File.  If you have any questions on the problems, please call me! 719-494-7522.  Also, we will go over this in class, and answer any questions.  Remember, this will get really useful with bigger numbers!

To learn the next step in adding, watch this video with your abacus in hand, and work the problems with her.

Intermediate Abacus Students: Here is a link to 2nd level abacus worksheets.  Print and complete at least 1/2 of worksheet #3. 

Let's begin to learn multiplying on the abacus!  There are 2 videos to watch, and both are important, in order. Get out a scratch paper and pencil for the 1st video, and do the problems on paper with her.  Then work them on your abacus during the 2nd video.  We will work on these in class together.

VIDEO 1 is HERE!

VIDEO 2 is HERE!

2. N2K...If you need to remember the game, rewatch National Number Knockout. Watch the Rules Here.  Play this game for at least 10 minutes with a parent or sibling.  Do you remember your score from our last Eureka class?  Your goal is to beat that score by 20!  If you don't remember your score, play the game once, then beat your first score by 20.  

What can you do to to increase your score?  
What's a good strategy?  
Remember, if you understand how to use your 1 free exponent, use it!  If that seems overwhelming, don't use it, just multiply. 
This game is awesome to help you get your facts down, or get faster at them!

3. During our Historical Time Period are a plethora of incredible inventions.  Which ones were the most useful then?

Be prepared to state your case in a friendly debate.  You must choose an invention to argue for!  Here are your options:

HOT AIR BALLOON Joseph (1740-1810) and Jacques Etienne (1745-1799) Montgolfier were two French brothers from Vidalon-les-Annonay, near Lyons, who made the first successful hot-air balloon. Their first balloon was launched in December, 1782, and ascended to an altitude of 985 ft (300 m). This type of hot-air balloon was called the Montgolfiére; it was made of paper and used air heated by burning wool and moist straw. The first passengers in a hot-air balloon were a rooster, a sheep, and a duck, whom the Montgolfier brothers sent up to an altitude of 1,640 ft (500 m) on September 19, 1783 (the trip lasted for 8 minutes); the animals survived the landing. This event was observed by King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France.

PARACHUTE A parachute is a device for slowing down one's descent while falling to the ground. Parachutes are used to skydive from airplanes, to jump from very high places, and to help slow down the descent of spacecraft. Parachutes are also used to slow down some race cars. The early parachutes were made from canvas (a strong cotton cloth). Light-weight (but very strong) silk cloth was then introduced for parachutes. Modern-day parachutes use nylon fabric. The idea of using a parachute to fall gently to the ground was written about by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The first parachute was demonstrated by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in 1783 of France - he jumped from a very tall tree carrying two parasols (umbrellas). A few years later, some adventurous people jumped from hot-air balloons using primitive parachutes. The first person to jump from a flying airplane (and survive the fall) was Captain Albert Berry, who jumped from a U.S. Army plane in 1912. Parachutes were first used in war towards the end of World War 1.

Process: Educate yourself on these inventions. The information above is very BASIC.  Dig Deeper. Decide which one YOU think WAS the most useful during the time it was invented.  Be prepared to state your case.

4. BIG Reports -- Reports that last about 5 minutes, with fun, engaging information, examples, content, and visual aids.

January	Blaise Pascal 1623-1662	Tara Fontano
	Christian Huygens (1629-1695)	Anthony Wells
	James Gregory (1638-1675)	Megan Wells
	Sir Isaac Newton 1643-1727	Isa Maurer

5. Make these note cards from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:

Brownian motion

Calorie

Carbon14

Cardinal numbers

Circumference

Common denominator

Copernicus, Nicolaus

Cosmic microwave background

Know/Understand

Do 1 of the following:

1. Create another invention

Just use materials you have around your house for your invention.

If you need ideas, go to https://jam.com/auth Sign in with this info: 

nick name: koolky 

password: Happy12345  -- 

caps and lowercase matters!

You can use any of these inventions, or maybe they'll spur a new idea. 

Bring your invention to class to show off!

OR

2. Solve this Krypto:  Here are 5 numbers:

2, 4, 6, 7, 9

Your Target number is....67

Bring in your answer in correct mathematic equation form.

Rules: Using each of the 5 numbers ONLY ONCE, you may use any combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division to manipulate the 5 numbers in any order to reach the target number.

Example: if you had the 5 numbers: "8,4,1,6,3", you could reach the target number of 11 by doing: 3 x 4 + 1 - (8 - 6) 

There is always a way, usually more than 1, to reach the target number.

Use your commonplace book to record your trial and error. Record your equation and bring it to class!

OR

3. Find plans online or elsewhere on how to build either a sun oven, or a rocket stove.  Bring your plans to class.

Become/Serve

Why are we studying math?  Well, because it's important, and super USEFUL!  Why are we studying inventors and their inventions?  Because we hope that through their examples, YOU are inspired to be the creators of your life.  What is it that you can create in your life, right now?  Write down 3 things in your commonplace book that you can create.  Think outside the box.  What are you good at, what do you love, and what is important.  Be creative, haha!  Watch this video first! I've included the link in case the video below won't work.