MATH AND ART
This camp focuses primarily on the beauty of mathematics. Students will create artwork using mathematical ideas such as perspective drawings, proportion and tessellations. They will investigate why some shapes tile a plane and why some do not (angle properties). They will create a scale drawing of an object, such as bicycle, to reinforce their understanding of proportion. Through game, they will investigate the “Four Colour Theorem”, a surprising result in mathematics that states that any map can be coloured using only 4 colours so that no two countries sharing a borderline will have to be coloured using the same colour.

MATH AND NATURE
This workshop will focus both on utility and beauty of mathematics. Activities will involve computing the heights of trees and other tall objects, widths of fields, rivers, or lakes as well as the circumference of the Earth (preliminaries of trigonometry, using scale drawings and graph paper). Students will also investigate the Fibonacci numbers and other growth patterns in their many guises as they appear in nature. This workshop will expose students experientially to the ideas of trigonometry before its formal introduction in school mathematics thus helping them make a deeper sense of it later on.