tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73925376421252616492024-03-15T15:39:26.626-04:00Somerville MathematicsEricahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-6646125092221065462024-01-29T15:50:00.001-05:002024-03-15T15:38:54.845-04:00Looking for a a Great Idea on How to Teach Math? These Teachers Do<p>By Erica Voolich</p><p> Many teachers have great ideas on how to make their classrooms a better place for their students to learn math. The teachers’ ideas frequently outrun the budget schools have for supplies and their own ability to subsidize their classroom. The Somerville Mathematics Fund tries to fill this need through the generosity of their donors with grants up to $500. </p><p> East Cambridge Savings Bank, Jeremy Gale, Will Kuhlman, Jasper Lawson PhD Associates, Mr & Mrs Donald McGoldrick, Spring Hill Dental, and Winter Hill Bank each sponsored a teacher's grant. The rest of the grants were funded thanks to the Morris S & Florence Bender Foundation. Thank you to our annual donors who make these grants possible.</p><p>The following teachers won grants to encourage and support mathematics achievement in the classrooms of Somerville.</p><p>The Math Fund wants to thank the <i>Morris S & Florence Bender Foundation</i> for generously underwriting the following teacher grants:</p><p>• Matthew Burch, Argenziano School (Math Instructional Coach K-2), Math Instructional Materials.</p><p>• Johanna Cooney, Brown School (1st), Math Enrichment & STEM materials.</p><p>• Katherine Adelaide Downs, Healey School (K), Number Sense Materials.</p><p>• Julie Gallardo, Healey School (3rd SEI-1), Math Workshop and Intervention Materials.</p><p>• Julie Jones & Lauren McGlashing, Capuano School (K), Math Night for Capuano and Winter Hill Community Innovation School Schools.</p><p>• Diana Garity, Argenziano School (2 SEI Newcomers), Geometry Materials.</p><p>• Anna Perham, Healey School (3rd), Math Materials.</p><p>• Charlotte Ross, Argenziano School (Math Interventionist), Math Manipulatives.</p><p>• Sabrina Soriano, Healey School (5th Math), Math Manipulatives.</p><p>• Katie Starbuck, Healey School & East Somerville Community School (Math Coach), Math Manipulatives</p><p><br /></p><p>The Math Fund wants to thank each of the following for generously underwriting a teacher grant:</p><p><i>East Cambridge Savings Bank</i>:</p><p>• Diana Quintanilla, East Somerville Community School (K), Math Manipulatives.</p><p><i>Jeremy Gale</i>:</p><p>•Swetha Kalluri, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (Math Interventionist, 2-8), Math Games and Puzzles.</p><p><i>William Kuhlman</i>:</p><p>• Nicole Alimena, Healey School (5th, SEI-1), Math Station Manipulatives.</p><p>• Marie Clevering, Healey School (4th), Math Games & Creation Supplies.</p><p><i>Jasper Lawson, PhD Associates</i>:</p><p>• Laura Peters, Somerville High School (STEAM & Robotics), Girls Who Code Club for Middle School</p><p><i>Mr & Mrs. Donald McGoldrick</i>:</p><p>• Andrea Palmer, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (K-8 Math Coach), Math Game Centers.</p><p><i>Spring Hill Dental</i>: </p><p>Filomena Arruda. East Somerville Community School (Pre-K), STEM materials.</p><p><i>Winter Hill Bank</i>:</p><p>• Mary Beth Morgan, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (K), Math Games for the Winter Hill and Capuano Schools to share.</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty-three years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded $154,614 in teacher grants supporting three hundred ninety teachers’ projects in the city of Somerville along with emergency grants to East Somerville teachers after the devastating school fire.</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>On March 26th, the fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships. Over twenty-three years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded a total of $631,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to one hundred thirty students. Links to the scholarship application form is available at www.somervillemathematicsfund.org For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica Voolich (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com).</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-19050119079747325642023-11-20T10:14:00.002-05:002023-11-20T12:54:35.548-05:00Time to get your Teacher Grant applications together!<p> Every year the Somerville Mathematics Fund offers teacher grants for K-12 teachers in Somerville who have interesting and exciting ideas to support math learning and enrichment for their students. The grant is open to teachers in all of the schools in Somerville, both public and parochial. <a href="https://somervillemathematicsfund.org/teacher-grants/" target="_blank">The grant application</a> is on the <a href="https://somervillemathematicsfund.org/teacher-grants/" target="_blank">Somerville Math Fund website</a> and is due by January 7, 2024.</p>The maximum amount of any grant is $500 per year. Previous winners are welcome to apply again as long as they have completed their report on the previous grant. You can read about some previous year’s grant winners on the <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html" target="_blank">Somerville Math Fund blog</a> or by requesting a copy of this year’s annual newsletter which was mailed in early December.<div><br />The Somerville Mathematics Fund, was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty years, the math fund has awarded $147,170 in teacher grants in the city of Somerville. You might want to listen to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rayp2ujjLA">TEDxSomerville talk</a> on the work of the Somerville Math Fund to learn about the various things the math fund is doing.<br /><br />In early April, the Somerville Math Fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships.<br /><br />The teacher grant application is available on<br /><a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">https://somervillemathematicsfund.org/teacher-grants/</a><br /><br />For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com)<div><br /></div><div>The link to blog post is <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/11/time-to-get-your-teacher-grant.html" target="_blank">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/11/time-to-get-your-teacher-grant.html</a></div></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-22074621842778076252023-11-06T12:56:00.004-05:002023-11-20T12:53:58.133-05:00Marble Mayhem Video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNRinWp4PrQ<p> Here is the video for this year's Scrapheap Showdown, Marble Mayhem</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNRinWp4PrQ" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNRinWp4PrQ</a></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-91721495252699260912023-10-24T14:07:00.005-04:002023-10-31T15:08:20.316-04:00 Scrapheap Showdown: Marble Mayhem!<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQW5vJdG_p0XQlaapaqUABJsiSk7XRNiPfhrNPZKtFu6hY2OrGLMrd8RvLg-dIu5Kd0JpOlMci8mydQqhq0iIEHblXhaTmPnqla_QhOv8v0bd6TPfQmV4UkBIh0n_Hl0GhJotEeAU8OQVcONK4xkY0J7lo3drZxaOgoZcV0bLK0-hKmNV_4rjmKBiWJJE/s4160/IMG20231022153503.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQW5vJdG_p0XQlaapaqUABJsiSk7XRNiPfhrNPZKtFu6hY2OrGLMrd8RvLg-dIu5Kd0JpOlMci8mydQqhq0iIEHblXhaTmPnqla_QhOv8v0bd6TPfQmV4UkBIh0n_Hl0GhJotEeAU8OQVcONK4xkY0J7lo3drZxaOgoZcV0bLK0-hKmNV_4rjmKBiWJJE/w403-h302/IMG20231022153503.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>By Erica Dakin Voolich</p><p>On October 22, 18 high school students on six teams gathered in the Gantcher Gym at Tufts University to compete in the Somerville Math Fund’s 17th annual Scrapheap Showdown, Marble Mayhem.</p><p>Their challenge was to create a Rube-Goldberg device for marbles making creative use of triggers, jumps, loops, or elevators. The “field” was two side by side tables held two feet apart. One marble started its journey by being placed above one table at one corner and ended by stopping on the other table at the opposite corner. Points were awarded according to how long the marble took to traverse the maze, how many obstacles and tricks it maneuvered through along the way, and consistency of time from start to finish. Participants had up to five different sized marbles they could choose to use in their maze.</p><p>This year when the students arrived, the usual scrapheap pile included long pieces of foam core and wooden dowels along with the miscellaneous interesting “junk” that the Somerville Math Fund pile usually includes. </p><p>The contestants were very busy, planning and trying different ideas, making adjustments while testing with their marbles. One team succeeded in jumping and catching their marble from table to table.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUpr1JqH_VlIcMgqt8lCWwxdAbnD7J4RUIydApibfv1cBhdm9M45ySvULTo1RTx0i5FIbE5hiI10jODdvb75GrQddsHDFEZWqh_G1y_EJyY2gAXbHmqGDfJTcUQNCqHXOZY1dEjOKrHmj_p20wUb3iBoTrV0xuzJIlU_7pmpt74VObM0w43MP13wn4bsY/s4160/IMG20231022154747.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUpr1JqH_VlIcMgqt8lCWwxdAbnD7J4RUIydApibfv1cBhdm9M45ySvULTo1RTx0i5FIbE5hiI10jODdvb75GrQddsHDFEZWqh_G1y_EJyY2gAXbHmqGDfJTcUQNCqHXOZY1dEjOKrHmj_p20wUb3iBoTrV0xuzJIlU_7pmpt74VObM0w43MP13wn4bsY/s320/IMG20231022154747.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Another team built what looked like pin ball machine, triggering multiple marbles.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLL6H7A6iXllj8Z9jiE3ZKe0qPbTXKGI-j6zsc1MUTrmRqOQDk5bEJvQ-_puyxAHbbhJsjYxexnjSafX-vqgj9VORQyFgJD-iNNd0Td0sjR5HE2815IkRbuGajAkacyhqzS92Wr-tml3t2B0HjrsZSMJFwfXbBoZOJIyadDmw7O8DtddYYn6USq-MruFk/s4160/IMG20231022145900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLL6H7A6iXllj8Z9jiE3ZKe0qPbTXKGI-j6zsc1MUTrmRqOQDk5bEJvQ-_puyxAHbbhJsjYxexnjSafX-vqgj9VORQyFgJD-iNNd0Td0sjR5HE2815IkRbuGajAkacyhqzS92Wr-tml3t2B0HjrsZSMJFwfXbBoZOJIyadDmw7O8DtddYYn6USq-MruFk/s320/IMG20231022145900.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>A couple of teams had paths with zig-zagging paths downhill. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85RnJrAjgUWPgoFmVmJCPmfxakFsFHypHKgRd_Z8IewTrA-89ouoyixcEfVEj7u_lM-54HTl7nd8m6zpN-juaFgeqbGAn0DC3IXF2ZwAQ3nk80XX7Z_Y6YPlzCx2MxsZjHbfzKhrVFgT9yNOQrQuWnfeEZiZKrE_mNx0Mtgnn2juqmTjC-wlOTYoQL1A/s4160/Slum%20Gang.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85RnJrAjgUWPgoFmVmJCPmfxakFsFHypHKgRd_Z8IewTrA-89ouoyixcEfVEj7u_lM-54HTl7nd8m6zpN-juaFgeqbGAn0DC3IXF2ZwAQ3nk80XX7Z_Y6YPlzCx2MxsZjHbfzKhrVFgT9yNOQrQuWnfeEZiZKrE_mNx0Mtgnn2juqmTjC-wlOTYoQL1A/s320/Slum%20Gang.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p> It was fun to watch each of the marble structures being tested everyone hoping their marbles would do what they planned for them to do and to do it in a timely manner. Time was called after 3 hours. It was time for testing the different structures. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgG4ibelwkO2ii8ICiTrzSNiLSnXGANprlqmZXUQIvtzwiOKLiKVmk1pwlwsAoxcPKL2KNVxdjKXsYQAdmjcYJDe7gFVRuLuxLV6kn4pN8uUFTzKzG0yeNAuiZ06O2i0qKlIGSHzoj650gE5n5HBFOF5lSuZIwze0hLFoZc2j39K_f8Lj2v-jOS0y6EAg/s4160/IMG20231022154443.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgG4ibelwkO2ii8ICiTrzSNiLSnXGANprlqmZXUQIvtzwiOKLiKVmk1pwlwsAoxcPKL2KNVxdjKXsYQAdmjcYJDe7gFVRuLuxLV6kn4pN8uUFTzKzG0yeNAuiZ06O2i0qKlIGSHzoj650gE5n5HBFOF5lSuZIwze0hLFoZc2j39K_f8Lj2v-jOS0y6EAg/s320/IMG20231022154443.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/tQco66MvdfhAhSEY9" target="_blank">The first place team was “Super Seniors”</a> (Yasmin Nazhar, Atticus Borggaard, and Ellery Borggaard) with a score of 1095 points. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhne14gx17VdIx6vrJPAiAXS0DybGCRy58QX6gAdnVFuBo3U8vfzYtTYLzjR2QJzt3ZAdxVrrAW4B_EI0YdxkHwrKn3tR6vI2D1-6sIMhrRj7xlOzIaEIY5ABeFqPcIVa2mvtXpltnq7k7q4d2RTZ9GBKVbCOKYhYEyTJl8eynaCcfiWtJe1yT_O9qXcd8/s4160/IMG20231022152348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhne14gx17VdIx6vrJPAiAXS0DybGCRy58QX6gAdnVFuBo3U8vfzYtTYLzjR2QJzt3ZAdxVrrAW4B_EI0YdxkHwrKn3tR6vI2D1-6sIMhrRj7xlOzIaEIY5ABeFqPcIVa2mvtXpltnq7k7q4d2RTZ9GBKVbCOKYhYEyTJl8eynaCcfiWtJe1yT_O9qXcd8/s320/IMG20231022152348.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Vj8gNqYN4e7wUrVA" target="_blank">Second place was “Slurm Gang”</a> (Miles Eisenbraun, Alexander Moulton, and Robert Leoni)) with 1030 points. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV5PmctEUQpPnIGtAfVzQKuxO-xNU-dDZmfKgHtDHpZV4dUjHvRVNrsuGuQiRi-FxDhE_vA9gUhjUb1D2A9HVEusfWyvUnuE4WznoCeqxL8xnIezpG-7JakT0giRXTmYkgmF2-f4MnSq3l9mxpJspz4meKSzD_xfRXKaXXHpTjLCqI9YWPnGqdgSvostY/s4160/2nd%20Slum%20Gang.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV5PmctEUQpPnIGtAfVzQKuxO-xNU-dDZmfKgHtDHpZV4dUjHvRVNrsuGuQiRi-FxDhE_vA9gUhjUb1D2A9HVEusfWyvUnuE4WznoCeqxL8xnIezpG-7JakT0giRXTmYkgmF2-f4MnSq3l9mxpJspz4meKSzD_xfRXKaXXHpTjLCqI9YWPnGqdgSvostY/s320/2nd%20Slum%20Gang.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/9q2GyWg3nicQWB1z9" target="_blank">Third place was “Tech Titans”</a> (Ali El-Saudi, Christopher Montiel, and Julian Barney) with 180 points. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJYpbXLVoBGePDN6KchLdilb4UveTqfFNCZB4dCJVSNcUmyI4MSzYBhUdjH7hm4GHmoQ5XQSB4de3UhZundIAxDJ2QaG61byQdSXRrF30EBN7WgD3mzkTcUjX_3lV9Wcvfr13C1KtGmrUpGkJ8K09RMMv-gc6UkZpcswOmIfjYn9HXO3QEJHPahx5srTQ/s4160/3.%20Tech%20Titans.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJYpbXLVoBGePDN6KchLdilb4UveTqfFNCZB4dCJVSNcUmyI4MSzYBhUdjH7hm4GHmoQ5XQSB4de3UhZundIAxDJ2QaG61byQdSXRrF30EBN7WgD3mzkTcUjX_3lV9Wcvfr13C1KtGmrUpGkJ8K09RMMv-gc6UkZpcswOmIfjYn9HXO3QEJHPahx5srTQ/s320/3.%20Tech%20Titans.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/s4ymHLn8aLDDhZYq5" target="_blank">Fourth place was “Calculus Crusaders</a>” (Liam Beretsky-Jewell and Darragh Keane) with 130 points.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0BT4dHxxssMQSYR8WSq_w3ba_RJmk6TerNvAJ1WaOmuTjt2m29tZ3wXmZB-erkVtARZeKhKMZp2sCT66jGQkDbBYmQF_5f8nWN60GPN2q3ywgc2u8cTw5cthTK9K8XH-6YRJuJaolUMtV0UxBBenJMGGBoJNOuiHWYaxHcQji4QYrP27u3KJGJlhVzs/s4160/IMG20231022160055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0BT4dHxxssMQSYR8WSq_w3ba_RJmk6TerNvAJ1WaOmuTjt2m29tZ3wXmZB-erkVtARZeKhKMZp2sCT66jGQkDbBYmQF_5f8nWN60GPN2q3ywgc2u8cTw5cthTK9K8XH-6YRJuJaolUMtV0UxBBenJMGGBoJNOuiHWYaxHcQji4QYrP27u3KJGJlhVzs/s320/IMG20231022160055.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>The teams chose their prizes in the order they finished. The prizes donated were three sets of two tickets to the RedSox (donated by Sam Voolich) for a game in April 2024, three $100 Target gift cards (donated by Chase Duclos-Orsello), and 3 gift cards from Anna’s Taqueria (donated by long term Somerville Math Fund supporters).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYtZ0DVZ-cAZY9M-kTtPuPGeIWiu5UlYOFsN6EP1pRCXFUOWnvB0-k59ZgBr7I_ayLd0a7azG_RxoJFwuzY43lxdY20RasGm8S24VjlMzGYar7FwBZMWXduvtAUFDSF0mJu09OcZhE5JjP8zlMhYrKFUaa1bMSHwrKv9IrBubQiqFabl1F5ZW7POVyG_Q/s4160/The%20Rats%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYtZ0DVZ-cAZY9M-kTtPuPGeIWiu5UlYOFsN6EP1pRCXFUOWnvB0-k59ZgBr7I_ayLd0a7azG_RxoJFwuzY43lxdY20RasGm8S24VjlMzGYar7FwBZMWXduvtAUFDSF0mJu09OcZhE5JjP8zlMhYrKFUaa1bMSHwrKv9IrBubQiqFabl1F5ZW7POVyG_Q/s320/The%20Rats%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The other participating teams were the <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZU9REBRMc6iLhMDG6" target="_blank">“The Rats AAAAHHRRERRHHHH”</a> (Serena Wong, Rafael Ronen, and Bhavroop Kaur), and <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/qC2h4iZW1eRWGPfX9" target="_blank">“The LEDS”</a> (Lily Thompson, Elias Colley, and Dash Brenner).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSICbxa6Y-i0OVIyi04Pi2tgE7EnaxPFqfx6V2RdTjfgBhlkI6IrSO05QC_Nxq5dbrySp8_iUsfcDhN8VIG0e8Tw54EHdrl6DQ7KYTRvoVscz8e5yDjUcmYMjFuUxW_GKM6sqttPtBjEHtOUgShiA8nfSbJzwqDMij1d-PIRSaXtZ1oJooazY-wI8o5DU/s4160/The%20LEDS%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSICbxa6Y-i0OVIyi04Pi2tgE7EnaxPFqfx6V2RdTjfgBhlkI6IrSO05QC_Nxq5dbrySp8_iUsfcDhN8VIG0e8Tw54EHdrl6DQ7KYTRvoVscz8e5yDjUcmYMjFuUxW_GKM6sqttPtBjEHtOUgShiA8nfSbJzwqDMij1d-PIRSaXtZ1oJooazY-wI8o5DU/s320/The%20LEDS%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Designers and refiners of the challenge were members of the Somerville Math Fund Board: Fred Bernardin, Sanford Bogage, Adam Foster, Richard Graf, Dan Oshima, Jesse Stern, Erica Voolich, Susan Weiss. Amy Weiss designed the teeshirt and Monica Fernandes designed the sponsor flyer; and Susan and Sanford designed the student recruiting and registration materials, and Sanford managed registration and the Google Classroom for this event.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uGS9kWz87UzetZM8Kys8K3Cev5STgSMXouLC88maoAdp-gIeSjEKiVTvp11DfTujOM_dMz-eLW-ye9ddO4d7vPQhpjJRR4-BW7KkEo8wElzwH3lOH8kqEhyji2PMMXy86v8JMnKZIIJH94j-Q6j9UrVqQM3gcYjjrJ-m3oZfVk7CGsqWxOsi4_94ZEQ/s4160/IMG20231022155727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uGS9kWz87UzetZM8Kys8K3Cev5STgSMXouLC88maoAdp-gIeSjEKiVTvp11DfTujOM_dMz-eLW-ye9ddO4d7vPQhpjJRR4-BW7KkEo8wElzwH3lOH8kqEhyji2PMMXy86v8JMnKZIIJH94j-Q6j9UrVqQM3gcYjjrJ-m3oZfVk7CGsqWxOsi4_94ZEQ/s320/IMG20231022155727.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Michael Morgan and Patricia Murphy-Sheehy (Head of Math Department) at Somerville High helped with suggestions and distribution help of registration materials. The math teachers at Somerville High School, recruited student teams. Bill Trudell videoed the event for Somerville Cable EdTV Channel 15.</p><p>Again Tufts University was our wonderful host donating their gym space for a Sunday event. Last year was our first year back after a three year COVID hiatus. This was our 17th Scrapheap Showdown and Tufts has been our host for all of these events. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNeTWWRZysLoFXZO2Yq7XkuDLoODz0Df6k4iu3-shHIplLmJ1pp7Itb5_MlJYbt-eSFJDahVK7g4Ls3nnuX-FH7QpPs5bXPL4E_W295Ktl8YqrHLJtbO6M9OTtMNKv3MHl_vYsywMwIU7-jyLAjJQRrRJn_x5fG9g_0HfYeaK_-U6NJcs4-Y7u1zo4xdE/s4160/IMG20231022123840.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNeTWWRZysLoFXZO2Yq7XkuDLoODz0Df6k4iu3-shHIplLmJ1pp7Itb5_MlJYbt-eSFJDahVK7g4Ls3nnuX-FH7QpPs5bXPL4E_W295Ktl8YqrHLJtbO6M9OTtMNKv3MHl_vYsywMwIU7-jyLAjJQRrRJn_x5fG9g_0HfYeaK_-U6NJcs4-Y7u1zo4xdE/s320/IMG20231022123840.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Thanks to our generous sponsors, this activity was both a fund raiser for a scholarship and three teacher grants, provided prizes for the students and allowed the students to participate without paying any registration fee. We offered different levels of sponsorship for the event. Thanks to all of our wonderful donors whose donations will make one scholarship available next spring and four teacher grants in January.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69xBVMoOjUX4U0SJjQ4jdrXJOw1UKowbsMqZe89MJGHAfBe0347-79c2Ykd0oBvCfYwriX_vbrBAgurUaNdL0IO_MkSKiEj0_Dz-dl8VZVeyt96NZBcLLOliaf9VH5-oNa0MhEM0R7v3kbhFdHtD7qeRQze5JuM3ByXb8dwIxM4L4pXO_lduW956Bxfs/s4160/IMG20231022153825.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69xBVMoOjUX4U0SJjQ4jdrXJOw1UKowbsMqZe89MJGHAfBe0347-79c2Ykd0oBvCfYwriX_vbrBAgurUaNdL0IO_MkSKiEj0_Dz-dl8VZVeyt96NZBcLLOliaf9VH5-oNa0MhEM0R7v3kbhFdHtD7qeRQze5JuM3ByXb8dwIxM4L4pXO_lduW956Bxfs/s320/IMG20231022153825.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Gold Level (one year of a college scholarship each):</p><p>Commercial Cleaning Co./Bickoff Family, Jasper J. Lawson, PhD. & Associates, Julie Schneider, and Tufts University.</p><p>Silver Level (one teacher grant each):</p><p>East Cambridge Savings Bank, Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. McGoldrick, Winter Hill Bank and a long term sponsor.</p><p>Bronze Level (supporting Somerville Math Fund work):Chase Duclos-Orsello, A Member of the Somerville High School Faculty, Zbigniew Niticki, and Sam Voolich.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjapOIZf_lq3otAo3Vi-TRGyxoqUz8nQkYuBI2vZ0tA_a2SujY7n4qZH6XvQMze4d7ugepizkfULL0iGpt1x-4hGPt_mxKibU_pmK1q7IGUT09OVG0sroKx7aCWE1uFVVknA9qnO8BaszL_drCULQD7QybmiV3Gj5iGDpy1nC_whld21BziXr_wDFDNdIg/s4160/IMG20231022144033.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjapOIZf_lq3otAo3Vi-TRGyxoqUz8nQkYuBI2vZ0tA_a2SujY7n4qZH6XvQMze4d7ugepizkfULL0iGpt1x-4hGPt_mxKibU_pmK1q7IGUT09OVG0sroKx7aCWE1uFVVknA9qnO8BaszL_drCULQD7QybmiV3Gj5iGDpy1nC_whld21BziXr_wDFDNdIg/s320/IMG20231022144033.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville. On January 7th, we will be looking for teacher grant applications; and in April, we will be looking for scholarship applications. For more information or to volunteer or to make a donation, call 617-666-0666, e-mail mathfund@gmail.com, or go to www.somervillemathematicsfund.org.</p><p>The link to this page is <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/10/scrapheap-showdown-marble-mayhem.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/10/scrapheap-showdown-marble-mayhem.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>©Erica Dakin Voolich 2023</p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-50631158200710121812023-09-16T14:30:00.003-04:002023-09-17T19:55:24.293-04:00Scrapheap is Coming -- Time to Sign Up!<p> </p><p>Scrapheap Showdown is Coming ... time to get your teams together. Get two more friends and register your team. Choose a crazy name for the team and then all come on October 22nd to Tufts U Gantcher Center.</p><p>After two years off for the Pandemic, Scrapheap Showdown came back last year. Here is the video of last <a href="https://youtu.be/jHNkMic1aiE" target="_blank">year's Scrapheap Showdown, Good Vibrations.</a></p><p><br />The <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/">Somerville Math Fund's</a> annual high school engineering challenge is coming on <b>Sunday October 23rd. It will be held at the Gantcher Center at Tufts University. Sign-in is at noon. </b></p><p><b>But you must <a href="https://forms.gle/gh9HFx3TJySwCr3n8" target="_blank">register before online here</a> before October 6th.</b></p><p>Teams of three will arrive to discover what will be their challenge to build this year. If you're interested in seeing some of the previous years' projects.</p><p><br />To compete you must be a high school student living in Somerville MA.<a href="https://forms.gle/gh9HFx3TJySwCr3n8"> Click here to register online. </a>Somerville high school students are encouraged to register and participate.</p><p>Start organizing your team NOW, the registration is due on October 6th.<br /><br />In the past, the teams not only came up with creative names for their teams, but they also came up with interesting creative solutions to the annual challenges. We always have great prizes.<br /><br />Go forth and form your teams of three!</p><p>Scrapheap Showdown is Coming ... time to get your teams together. Get two more friends and <a href="https://forms.gle/gh9HFx3TJySwCr3n8">register your team</a>. Choose a crazy name for the team and then all come on October 23rd to Tufts U Gantcher Center.<br /><br />Good Luck!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqxyKb_KyoVXTnM0DHclFyr6VADXFuPYzmW8L9UBwEa_rUJrJa246M9vZknbfN5NApXUmxNMGgS6kxfqsrXuMBytvzPo2L5qYcxU0LpbFyLuy-m-xVcd7VmTs8axnzq-RMAZ9taJUKbQiuG_R1ONJl1iz0PyVzXDydwQ2j48ouX0XVg82CqNgseJoe7w/s1023/QR2023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="1023" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqxyKb_KyoVXTnM0DHclFyr6VADXFuPYzmW8L9UBwEa_rUJrJa246M9vZknbfN5NApXUmxNMGgS6kxfqsrXuMBytvzPo2L5qYcxU0LpbFyLuy-m-xVcd7VmTs8axnzq-RMAZ9taJUKbQiuG_R1ONJl1iz0PyVzXDydwQ2j48ouX0XVg82CqNgseJoe7w/w144-h144/QR2023.jpg" width="144" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The link to this post is<a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/09/scrapheap-is-coming-time-to-sign-up.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/09/scrapheap-is-coming-time-to-sign-up.html</a></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-64902317415930614922023-06-09T12:46:00.003-04:002023-06-09T14:43:47.236-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovs1eWYcJjzDVqMSGCTHVucN20kxCuXL6450NGRQH059iE7H5QlS4-k74gX2p8wrWZ6Ouc_Ya9b3lvjDABvAzdviUDsMniD9FkPLAdOSApq7rP3jOScy40UV0IuDz5jIxaNHpiINHBsGFgjePzhkWkl3ch65PUlhu4COWnwVFZ7HsutFxP93-Dv1K/s4000/1.%202023%20scholship%20group.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovs1eWYcJjzDVqMSGCTHVucN20kxCuXL6450NGRQH059iE7H5QlS4-k74gX2p8wrWZ6Ouc_Ya9b3lvjDABvAzdviUDsMniD9FkPLAdOSApq7rP3jOScy40UV0IuDz5jIxaNHpiINHBsGFgjePzhkWkl3ch65PUlhu4COWnwVFZ7HsutFxP93-Dv1K/w458-h331/1.%202023%20scholship%20group.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><p>Pictured above are Sanford Bogage (SMF VP), Ariyeh Weissman-Bennett, David Ou, Jonathan Chan, Veid Patel, Hashem El-Saudi, Erica Voolich (SMF Pres.), Wendy Guo, Nyemma DeAndrade, Lia Sokol, Nicole López Ordóñez, Ashish Budha, Andrew Bonney. Not pictured Fenya Savage Mantell.</p><p><br /></p><p>By Erica Dakin Voolich</p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund is pleased to announce the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2023. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals and a few organizations, this year we were able to award a record 12 scholarships, totaling $72,000 over four years.</p><p>Due to a COVID-19 outbreak, we were unable to personally award the scholarships at the awards night for four years. It felt so wonderful to be back personally handing out the scholarships and meeting the winners in person again like we used to do. It is also wonderful to see so many first generation college students in our group this year, a total of eight!</p><p>We definitely want to celebrate our scholarship winners for their achievements while meeting the challenges of going to high school, much of it was during a pandemic. CONGRATULATIONS. </p><p>The winners are attending a variety of schools next fall. Andrew Bonney and Jonathan Chan will be attending UMass Boston; Ashish Budha, Northeastern U; Nyemma DeAndrade and Wendy Guo, Bryn Mawr College; Hashem El-Saudi and Fenya Savage Mantell, Tufts U; Nicole López Ordóñez and David Ou, Boston U; Veid Patel, MIT; Lia Sokol, U of Maryland; and Ariyeh Weissmann-Bennett, UMass Amherst.</p><p>A bit of explanation about the scholarship names. Some scholarships are supported by many donations, some large, some small — but together there is $6000 for each student. For those students who participated in Scrapheap Showdown this year, we had some of our sponsors who each sponsored one year of a scholarship. We have some named annual scholarships, two memorial scholarships are for founders of the Somerville Math Fund. Two of our named scholarships are given by one of our first scholarship winners back in 2001 in the name of his favorite famous mathematician. One is given in memory of a mother who distinguished herself in WW2 as a nurse and saved for her children’s education. And, finally, one is given in honor of a distinguished Tufts Math professor and Somerville Math Fund Board member who retired from each this year.</p><p>Their annual scholarships of $1500 are renewable for up to a total of four years as long as they maintain a B average and take mathematics or courses which use mathematics. </p><p>The five memorial scholarships this year are for Dr. Alice T Schafer, Lt. Catherine M. Landers, S. Ramanujan, and Michael Voolich. The honor scholarship is for Dr. Zbigniew Nitecki</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwyWaotN8Z-GIZcB9lHsHzvlHTCBEpaESOtGHV4KgbeXYfYcjASuc6H20K4B3UeZcaPpOShdhchYbf43nPS-_xE7MBaXO7Xf1GErwqvLLtI8-SDzx-VdzGQ5quJVja4845VUSJfQ9gHxiumPd-c2lp6Tb3e2Kzkqube0oE40cM4U9734eEe8kdsolj/s2776/2%20NLopez%20Ordonez%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2776" data-original-width="1321" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwyWaotN8Z-GIZcB9lHsHzvlHTCBEpaESOtGHV4KgbeXYfYcjASuc6H20K4B3UeZcaPpOShdhchYbf43nPS-_xE7MBaXO7Xf1GErwqvLLtI8-SDzx-VdzGQ5quJVja4845VUSJfQ9gHxiumPd-c2lp6Tb3e2Kzkqube0oE40cM4U9734eEe8kdsolj/w190-h400/2%20NLopez%20Ordonez%20crop.jpg" width="190" /></a></div><p>One of the scholarships was given in the memory of an outstanding woman mathematician, Dr. Alice T. Schafer. Nicole López Ordóñez was awarded the Alice T. Schafer Memorial Scholarship. Nicole was busy with the Calculus Project, Math Club, Robotics team, Fablab, and Science League while in high school. She loved the STEM problem solving challenges as she branched out to try new activities.</p><p>Nicole is planning on majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.</p><p>Dr. Schafer (1915 - 2009) was orphaned as an infant and raised by two aunts. When she went to college at the University of Richmond of Virginia, women students weren’t allowed in the library and she was discouraged from majoring in mathematics. She won prizes, earned a PhD, taught at colleges (including Wellesley) and among the things she is known for is helping start the Association for Women in Mathematics (1971). </p><p>Less known about Dr. Schafer was her role helping to start the Somerville Mathematics Fund in 2000 -- attending all of the planning meetings and contributing to their work as long as she was able. She is remembered for her passion and work to insure mathematical opportunities for women. Nicole loved teaching what she learned in math initially at home and then to others. Then she discovered that math was more than just an answer to a do-now problem but an innovative way to solve problems as an engineer would. It opened a whole new world to her.</p><p>Since Dr. Schafer was committed to the education and supporting women in mathematics, Nicole’s majoring in biomedical engineering is a wonderful way to honor Dr. Alice Schafer's memory of encouraging women in the maths and sciences.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCjDObKZ5tiKJw-u6Lp2eP4CM1qpzDZK744i5vbgKKlkyyH-fKIS_TkEtx39tWj5K_sVxtgyoLXmeXd-NfZqP-vC1CcNEPu2uuvHyzez_NL5OqWMf0achFmYyMKm1D3F_zK5u5DgftXlUTT2myfq5-6kb7fV3kK-wy1nRUidhofA3l0HSHBiUhgYM/s3780/3.%20WGuo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3780" data-original-width="1408" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCjDObKZ5tiKJw-u6Lp2eP4CM1qpzDZK744i5vbgKKlkyyH-fKIS_TkEtx39tWj5K_sVxtgyoLXmeXd-NfZqP-vC1CcNEPu2uuvHyzez_NL5OqWMf0achFmYyMKm1D3F_zK5u5DgftXlUTT2myfq5-6kb7fV3kK-wy1nRUidhofA3l0HSHBiUhgYM/w149-h400/3.%20WGuo.jpg" width="149" /></a></div><p>The Lt. Catherine M. Landers Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Wendy Guo. Wendy has an interest in becoming a neurologist. Her interest in health care is part of her larger interest in human rights, social justice, and healthcare for minorities.</p><p>When Lt. Landers (1920 - 2012) wanted to go to nursing school (graduating in 1942), her grandmother opened a cedar chest were she had been saving one dollar bills one at a time to help pay for her granddaughter’s education. Lt Landers won a Bronze Star for her service during WW2, where she ran a field hospital outside Paris; she was about to be shipped to the far East when WW2 ended and so she boarded a transport ship for the USA instead. Jay Landers and Jasper Lawson donated a scholarship in her memory, honoring her commitment to education.</p><p>Wendy Guo’s interest is in neurology and the theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain. A Neuroscience major at Bryn Mawr College is a wonderful way to honor Lt. Landers' commitment to education.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUD4cvAhKXJYJYtJZLPDXcm9sog6tubn0jGGdUak_vpKEoshUXPnSUc40rwuLxSdcHpEr3zns5KNxN2HUNpjJX2yAhQiGrU7DkQ-KRh4yO6PJYf9v1OBlZtjQ3272hdoIOsQ79CWzWSgbLDyYZ0DupdBRcsYi7R313ZRsLXsHPGAbS-XkLgq16jtx9/s3626/5.%20HEl-Saudi%20VPatel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3626" data-original-width="2369" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUD4cvAhKXJYJYtJZLPDXcm9sog6tubn0jGGdUak_vpKEoshUXPnSUc40rwuLxSdcHpEr3zns5KNxN2HUNpjJX2yAhQiGrU7DkQ-KRh4yO6PJYf9v1OBlZtjQ3272hdoIOsQ79CWzWSgbLDyYZ0DupdBRcsYi7R313ZRsLXsHPGAbS-XkLgq16jtx9/w261-h400/5.%20HEl-Saudi%20VPatel.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><p>Our two scholarships in the memory of S. Ramanujan, are a gift from the Jha Family and were awarded to Hashem El-Saudi who is planning on attending Tufts University and Veid Patel who is planning on attending MIT. Each has been a member of the Somerville High School Math Club, that has organized math meets and group problem solving of puzzles and activities for middle school students and participated in math contests. </p><p>Hashem followed the example of his sister years ago joining the math club and was the president of the Math Club this year. He was involved in redesigning the format for the math meets. He spent two summers interning in a brain tumor cancer research Lab at Dana-Farber/Harvard Center. He wants to be a pediatric psychologist. He is planning on majoring in neurology at Tufts.</p><p>Veid is interested in and fascinated how the universe works — how the math constants and formulas can explain the real world in a way that language failed to. Veid wants to be an astrophysicist and is planning on majoring in physics at MIT. He spent time last summer at the Momentum AI program at MIT and the summer before at Lesley’s AI, Art and Robotics program. </p><p>Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) was a mostly self-taught brilliant Indian mathematician who sadly died young. He discovered his love of mathematics while in high school when he found a book that listed 4000 mathematical theorems without information on they were discovered or developed. So he continued his math work, often on a slate, only recording his concluding theorem on paper when finished, without the details of how he came to the conclusion. With his humble beginnings and no formal mathematical training, the story of his life and how he finally connected with the well-known mathematicians of his day is detailed the book and movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity. That book inspired the Jha family who gave this scholarship in his honor. Ramanujan’s notebooks and papers have included both previously discovered and new mathematical theorems many in number theory. These notebooks have continued to provide mathematicians with material to study and try to figure out how Ramanujan discovered these theorems and to see if they were provable. </p><p>The sponsor of this scholarship was inspired by S. Ramanujan as a high school student more than twenty years ago. Hashem’s and Veid’s interesting in how their love of math can help explain the world of neurology and physics is a way to honor S. Ramanujan’s memory. S. Ramanujan was self taught before he finally connected with the mathematicians in England and worked at the University of Cambridge with the leading mathematicians of the day. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOnlTRB_HVgDIgTZ0p_6VzGum4IzWnt5Js0hNjOrXf6BeR2hg6d0wgud6magffRE2v_rgpWbY9RNMpmKGhsGdNGUWRIO_pM3ztWqdtMrITrnceFy213AF3I5JY1vQoMVXSIFFKd-4plZT4NmcP2342PuP-0szngglfmgg1YonUZ0R1mPRNySxgMzdL/s3185/4.%20NDeAndrade.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3185" data-original-width="1503" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOnlTRB_HVgDIgTZ0p_6VzGum4IzWnt5Js0hNjOrXf6BeR2hg6d0wgud6magffRE2v_rgpWbY9RNMpmKGhsGdNGUWRIO_pM3ztWqdtMrITrnceFy213AF3I5JY1vQoMVXSIFFKd-4plZT4NmcP2342PuP-0szngglfmgg1YonUZ0R1mPRNySxgMzdL/w189-h400/4.%20NDeAndrade.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><br /><p>The Michael Voolich Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Nyemma DeAndrade who is interested majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology at Bryn Mawr College. </p><p>Michael Voolich (1943 - 2019) was a person who was interested in how everything worked, if Renaissance man was a job offering, Michael would have applied. He learned by asking questions and then he loved telling everyone what he had learned and how seemingly disparate things were related. He had a career than included teaching many different subjects in local schools, none of which was math. But, he married a math teacher. So, when the Somerville Math Fund was being discussed and organized in his living room, of course he joined the founding board. </p><p>He liked to do things for people and of course for the math fund. His telephone calls and trips to Table Talk Pie Company each year for city-wide Pi Night celebration were a highlight each year. He especially loved helping find things for others to donate for the Scrapheap Showdown each year and his marvelous multiple clamps will still be a necessary part of future Scrapheap challenges to come. </p><p>Michael loved to be able to give and help others in the local community along with his extended family here and abroad. This scholarship was funded by the many people who donated in his memory to the Somerville Math Fund. </p><p>During Nyemma’s junior year she took a dual enrollment class between Somerville High School and Cambridge College — it was all hands on and inspired her to major in science and engineering. Michael would have loved this class, he taught various industrial arts classes over the years and would be thrilled Nyemma had the experience and would want her to tell him all about it. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGRnen3FjhODD56W_vJgyQF14VlVAhsWxrcJqWxGnntV5AoRJeqdTF_eRefhtyQMaUO5hSQ-jDfqxiq4m9FRKNs_DCXByBs09XmrMY_rm7l5d2YKeHA-DOtvJoXnT9YfJLrtxhlJ2SnnXN_qhuVxlQJiig5Y7IN1qNc4e1FJ8afObK8ha_ALldeTkM/s3928/6.%20ABonney.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3928" data-original-width="1544" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGRnen3FjhODD56W_vJgyQF14VlVAhsWxrcJqWxGnntV5AoRJeqdTF_eRefhtyQMaUO5hSQ-jDfqxiq4m9FRKNs_DCXByBs09XmrMY_rm7l5d2YKeHA-DOtvJoXnT9YfJLrtxhlJ2SnnXN_qhuVxlQJiig5Y7IN1qNc4e1FJ8afObK8ha_ALldeTkM/w158-h400/6.%20ABonney.jpg" width="158" /></a></div><p>The Scholarship in honor of Dr. Zbigniew Nitecki was awarded to Andrew Bonney who is interested majoring in computer Science at UMass Boston. The ability to create something out of basically nothing, hooked him on computer science in his AP computer science class, and led him to participate in a cyber security hackathon challenge finding and correcting vulnerabilities in websites.</p><p>Dr Nitecki recently retired from Tufts University after 50 years of service teaching math, he is now Emeritus. He also served on the Somerville Math Fund board for fourteen years from 2008 to 2022, also retiring from the Board last fall.</p><p>Dr. Nitecki is a mathematician working in nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory. He has been on the faculty at Tufts University since 1972; previously he taught at Yale and the City College of New York. Besides papers in research journals, he has written four books: <i>Differentiable Dynamics</i> (MIT Press, 1971: Russian translation 1975, Chinese 1979), <i>First Course in Differential Equations</i> co-authored with Marty Guterman (Saunders, 1984, 1988, 1992), was used by many departments (including Tufts) as the text for the last math course most engineers take. <i>Calculus Deconstructed, A Second Course in First Year Calculus</i> (MAA, 2009), and <i>Calculus in 3D: Geometry, Vectors, and Multivariate Calculus</i> (MAA, 2018). In 1982-3, he served as the first director of the Geometric Analysis program at the National Science Foundation. He has served on the editorial board of two journals: Real Analysis Exchange and Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems. He has served as Associate Treasurer of the American Mathematical Society since February 2012. </p><p>Andrew’s interest in completing all the math and computer science classes in a dual enrollment at Bunker Hill Community College while still at Somerville High School makes him a good match to Dr Niteck’s many calculus books.</p><p><br /></p><p>For years, we have held a high school engineering challenge in October that is both a hands-on problem solving event for the participants but also a fundraiser for scholarships.</p><p>The Scrapheap Showdown last October had three gold sponsors who each sponsored one year of a Somerville Math Fund Scholarship. The other three years of these scholarships were made possible by many generous donors contributing to the Somerville Math Fund. </p><p>Three of the donors who each paid for one year of three different student scholarship were Julie Schneider, the Bickoff Family, and Winter Hill Bank. The Somerville Math Fund Scholarship, generously sponsored by three sponsors of Scrapheap Showdown were awarded to Ashish Budha, Jonathan Chan, and David Ou.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrVIekNy-yrGSrF61Oe1DpbKdFXqJRMsPU2CH6DNg4CrCcgMU7rUJXppJGChG8R6LUvYJbuEJHaElc2vXoiyNsWuNkUItf6Qz0Rk4UoGrUmx4jB248gMNxnJgyA0d-bYhWY7LVyvZq_p0bWJpuNgXcKNymk0wdSUoxcm-FlxQq6TobVPv24Jli05W/s3536/7.%20ABudha.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3536" data-original-width="1468" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrVIekNy-yrGSrF61Oe1DpbKdFXqJRMsPU2CH6DNg4CrCcgMU7rUJXppJGChG8R6LUvYJbuEJHaElc2vXoiyNsWuNkUItf6Qz0Rk4UoGrUmx4jB248gMNxnJgyA0d-bYhWY7LVyvZq_p0bWJpuNgXcKNymk0wdSUoxcm-FlxQq6TobVPv24Jli05W/w166-h400/7.%20ABudha.jpg" width="166" /></a></div><br /><p>The scholarship whose first year was sponsored by Julie Schneider was awarded to Ashish Budha. Ashish plans to study computer science at Northeastern University. When he was in 10th grade he first heard someone talk of coding as something to create games, apps, and software. YouTube and Google explained what coding was and he was hooked on the problem solving challenges of programming as started with his first class in 11th grade. Ashish is interested in how groundbreaking technology can further human life experience.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXD-XoBcuoTnn5U1-ZOxmt4tz4nGePhXKSRjbToZPl7DQ_fTKKTAuRnHVZbsXSUayz8SCFiQhqYccKY_osgAeQVLrIsOEHvxRmCgmd-y93LvH8CvEKe3g5EcbvfcPwXT4ih7A0Tf8QMl5G2AO0y3YrRcJAIGEaAvTikUqanSDyaZM1wJxCLN-rJSW/s3349/8.%20JChan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3349" data-original-width="1474" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXD-XoBcuoTnn5U1-ZOxmt4tz4nGePhXKSRjbToZPl7DQ_fTKKTAuRnHVZbsXSUayz8SCFiQhqYccKY_osgAeQVLrIsOEHvxRmCgmd-y93LvH8CvEKe3g5EcbvfcPwXT4ih7A0Tf8QMl5G2AO0y3YrRcJAIGEaAvTikUqanSDyaZM1wJxCLN-rJSW/w176-h400/8.%20JChan.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p>The scholarship whose first year was sponsored by the Bickoff family of the Commercial Cleaning Company was awarded to Jonathan Chan.</p><p>Jonathan plans to study finance at UMass Boston. While taking a business class, he was captivated by the idea that he could manage his own finances, and then realized the world is run by money and it is more than just earning and spending. Having a healthy relationship to money is important, so going into finance seemed to be the thing for Jonathan to do.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5vcHuJfI7iQ9mBd_lIsjteVyusfECzZgTywKRjU3-UgUQ5JFJIDWAki7JbUyOwJEuv3nf2ESRCiKw9lZYGVkuW7cmfrYAox9n86LNcFLILfq0nFth3RbsK_qhg_es_RXg0lNiPQ432uHisLL7-eQnk730ShXecW65Aar8riuyEtRyiCEgntzZphQM/s3830/9.%20D%20Ou.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3830" data-original-width="1388" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5vcHuJfI7iQ9mBd_lIsjteVyusfECzZgTywKRjU3-UgUQ5JFJIDWAki7JbUyOwJEuv3nf2ESRCiKw9lZYGVkuW7cmfrYAox9n86LNcFLILfq0nFth3RbsK_qhg_es_RXg0lNiPQ432uHisLL7-eQnk730ShXecW65Aar8riuyEtRyiCEgntzZphQM/w145-h400/9.%20D%20Ou.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><p>The scholarship whose first year was sponsored by Winter Hill Bank was awarded to David Ou.</p><p>David plans to study computer science at Boston University. David was a math tutor and peer mentor for the Calculus Project and spent last summer at MIT studying artificial intelligence (AI) and building a reCaptcha solver AI from scratch. He is interested in how computer science can be applied to autonomous cars and robotics. He has a concern with accompanying ethical issues with biased machine training, data security and deep fakes. David is interesting in studying computer science, specifically AI and the accompanying issues related to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund receives donations from many people — many small, medium and larger donations that together make a difference. If you sent $5, $50, or $500, for example, you contributed to fund to be even more scholarships to be awarded. When we have $6,000 donated, we can give another scholarship. And last in our list, but definitely not least in any way, are three more scholarships that were made up of gifts from many donors. If you donated, thank you. Pat yourself on the back.</p><p>From the generosity of many comes each of these three whole scholarships which were awarded to Fenya Savage Mantell, Lia Sokol, and Ariyeh Weissman-Bennett.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_R66avbmhS8MiUVFFXtUicXCVnTgOUBQDZ8lKp3fgws8UVPXzBIxmJG3f2MvJWGAsA5oxRBztUDhorzR8aaQBVt_WjSMYBXnWjI6Syd2VNsWCDv5QJMZKztlahvX_C3TlG6lpKcGadb0fOy0A5WGT4GmjxaV1qJou7l9jcW69rGyNe33uiYwWoHQr/s640/11.%20SAVAGE%20%20MANTELL%20Fenya%20copy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="428" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_R66avbmhS8MiUVFFXtUicXCVnTgOUBQDZ8lKp3fgws8UVPXzBIxmJG3f2MvJWGAsA5oxRBztUDhorzR8aaQBVt_WjSMYBXnWjI6Syd2VNsWCDv5QJMZKztlahvX_C3TlG6lpKcGadb0fOy0A5WGT4GmjxaV1qJou7l9jcW69rGyNe33uiYwWoHQr/s320/11.%20SAVAGE%20%20MANTELL%20Fenya%20copy.png" width="214" /></a></div><br /><p>A Somerville Mathematics Fund Scholarship was awarded to Fenya Savage Mantell.</p><p>Fenya plans to study data science at Tufts University. In high school Fenya advocated for the Green New Deal and climate education in schools and was pushing for accessibility and equity in access to technology and climate friendly initiatives. She is interested in the relationship between computer science, ethics, policy and philosophy — the ethics in programming applications and the implications of AI and technology. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhESnzdL05WBexOvumfSwInyfEVDnUp0qljhKtNDWypLmbT97aeeLutapiwJyEZThQKxDtyUVLl7yLwvL4LaGlU8mBi5FUHtvXkpQyndsSxpejFyDOgCXmRDZWbzgiSVwpzaQCi4tERGyYqzrpQX15lQ8ELJVckM_rWlxkySV1pbTddNl55oLqDf4VJ/s3687/10.%20LSokolAWeissman-Bennett.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3687" data-original-width="2123" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhESnzdL05WBexOvumfSwInyfEVDnUp0qljhKtNDWypLmbT97aeeLutapiwJyEZThQKxDtyUVLl7yLwvL4LaGlU8mBi5FUHtvXkpQyndsSxpejFyDOgCXmRDZWbzgiSVwpzaQCi4tERGyYqzrpQX15lQ8ELJVckM_rWlxkySV1pbTddNl55oLqDf4VJ/w230-h400/10.%20LSokolAWeissman-Bennett.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><p>A Somerville Mathematics Fund Scholarship was awarded to Lia Sokol.</p><p>Lia plans on studying psychology at U of Maryland. She joined the robotics team while still busy with many other volunteer activities. Lia has been involved for many years volunteering with children — from playing with pre-school children in a domestic violence shelter, helping with Argenziano’s after school program, and at a summer camp for low-income and special needs kids during a COVID summer. So, it is not a surprise that she sees herself involved with education in a STEM field or counseling in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Somerville Mathematics Fund Scholarship was awarded to Ariyeh Weissman-Bennett</p><p>Ariyeh plans on studying at the College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst. Ariyeh is interested in so many things that he wants to explore in college, that he isn’t ready to narrow his studies to a major yet. Stay tuned for updates from him when we ask for “news from scholarship winners” in the Somerville Math Fund annual newsletter, <i>Imagination!</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. It May 2011, it was recognized as the outstanding Dollars for Scholars Chapter in New England. Since its founding in 2000, it has awarded $631,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to one hundred thirty outstanding Somerville students. </p><p><br /></p><p>©2023, Erica Dakin Voolich</p><p>This link to this blog post is <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/7392537642125261649">hhttps://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/06/pictured-above-are-sanford-bogage-smf.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-20197800356995172072023-03-17T13:53:00.002-04:002023-03-17T13:54:51.337-04:00Math Meet, Pi, Pizza, and finally Pies —A Great Renewed way to Celebrate a Transcendental Number<p> by Erica Voolich</p><p>Tuesday, March 14 is Pi Day (3.14). What better excuse is there to have a celebration of math with middle schoolers than π? On the Eve of Pi Day, over 100 students, teachers, and high school Math Club members celebrated π at Somerville High School by eating pizza while spending an afternoon taking a math contest and then estimating, creating, answering questions, and ending with Table Talk pies for everyone. </p><p>The Somerville High School Math Club led by Michael Morgan organized the event. Instead of the usual math contest between Somerville’s middle schools’ math teams for the month of March, they invited the schools to come and have students take a math contest related to pi and circles written by the high schoolers and do some of the pi night activities the Somerville Math Fund has organized in the past pre-pandemic. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSX0-Qco1hr1DZ7ksdb3WInNBr-7yQMbb8TRJ9F8ef05Mv5dFVij2qdaOs9_le3CE327JS6_NNNWBJaO2Wqw0aau3WxuBBF6nNc99TJKbIcVOsnD48h6Q8rwGZVg1tMI4lQw9_BlZg99n68oZIng77PKwyxpgLsWCyc842n8rQWzOxcJ9rj9bbSG3/s4160/IMG20230313160637.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSX0-Qco1hr1DZ7ksdb3WInNBr-7yQMbb8TRJ9F8ef05Mv5dFVij2qdaOs9_le3CE327JS6_NNNWBJaO2Wqw0aau3WxuBBF6nNc99TJKbIcVOsnD48h6Q8rwGZVg1tMI4lQw9_BlZg99n68oZIng77PKwyxpgLsWCyc842n8rQWzOxcJ9rj9bbSG3/s320/IMG20230313160637.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>While enjoying pizza donated by the Bickoff family of the Commercial Cleaning Service, the students from the students from the Healey School, the East Somerville Community School, the West Somerville Neighborhood school and the Kennedy School went around to a variety of pi math activities set up in the Lower Cafeteria at the High School. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5jqpDwQs8Rg0kXZz0Br3x55abJWpywAc6pvzKT6AqqNUWaiPgtCIhtdQBf-RBEV8dQmBf6lrhGccCWNUV2AHy_e8mQIixjemBTIVzKbeMEKImYvM7bpZwYYhAj1y2bflzgIb7CFaXpW8dBJ3t6EZcRdawxscD4irYmSYR4PeMd5JMnXc5xoclGYu/s4160/IMG20230313153848.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5jqpDwQs8Rg0kXZz0Br3x55abJWpywAc6pvzKT6AqqNUWaiPgtCIhtdQBf-RBEV8dQmBf6lrhGccCWNUV2AHy_e8mQIixjemBTIVzKbeMEKImYvM7bpZwYYhAj1y2bflzgIb7CFaXpW8dBJ3t6EZcRdawxscD4irYmSYR4PeMd5JMnXc5xoclGYu/s320/IMG20230313153848.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>These activities included: predicting bicycle wheel roll distance after two revolutions, a guessing contest, π button design, π facts quiz, finding your birthday in π, drawing a cardioid or nephroid (curves from lines), and predicting circumferences in mm by feel of objects in mystery boxes.</p><p>Even though the Somerville Math Fund sponsored math night event was canceled by the pandemic for the last three years, there were Somerville High School Math Club members who commented about remembering doing some of these events when they went over to either the Healey (2019) or the East Somerville (2018) for the Pi Family math night.</p><p>Scott Weaver (East), Wil Jacques (Healey) brought students and helped Erica Voolich (Somerville Mathematics Fund) organize the activities for the event. Also bringing students were Annalyica Beck-Liston from East, Alyssa Mackey from West, and Veronica Santana from Kennedy.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisnaOXZwVbKa-QxJ7lWRdRVfYt_9374iIJ8sR8jeNUJhHiy7iP8cQvOC7h891JJmJlJm5wXapSA5dst1dclMm6-qzeA8NN6TPwfVHkNrInBTwCNa4sN-6V659SBVSLVLLKPM3djuVzsJ3I_8vykjCANp6dqe5fMTFKfeXqls9NRb-jM5WwhHIS1eVd/s4160/IMG20230313163524.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisnaOXZwVbKa-QxJ7lWRdRVfYt_9374iIJ8sR8jeNUJhHiy7iP8cQvOC7h891JJmJlJm5wXapSA5dst1dclMm6-qzeA8NN6TPwfVHkNrInBTwCNa4sN-6V659SBVSLVLLKPM3djuVzsJ3I_8vykjCANp6dqe5fMTFKfeXqls9NRb-jM5WwhHIS1eVd/s320/IMG20230313163524.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>In addition, Scott Weaver at the East Somerville Community School organized a day of math/pi activities in all of his classes on Pi Day. All of his students enjoyed Table Talk Pies to fuel their exploration of Pi and circles. Somerville had a rainy nor’easter for pi day while the rest of New England was buried in a spring snow (in some places measured in feet) and probably had to postpone their celebrations with the thousands of pies supplied by Table Talk</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBlvodqTqrSYh2fqnYOwiAKObxk8U8KsQNH_rWOIcHvF9pgfpfaEpSxxSih6yXzFIozkx6JMwErV-5MR6rfCLzFnvSpzs_C0W32zKYdj5M3n6Nd2ogX7XvsBcgiUv26lbZJIhOl2Sa1pO8TJ1vSDV77KFFJz-qIhfz8wQxopVAqUT1tLpYnuQ0cX_Z/s4160/IMG20230313153604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBlvodqTqrSYh2fqnYOwiAKObxk8U8KsQNH_rWOIcHvF9pgfpfaEpSxxSih6yXzFIozkx6JMwErV-5MR6rfCLzFnvSpzs_C0W32zKYdj5M3n6Nd2ogX7XvsBcgiUv26lbZJIhOl2Sa1pO8TJ1vSDV77KFFJz-qIhfz8wQxopVAqUT1tLpYnuQ0cX_Z/s320/IMG20230313153604.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Table Talk Pies of Worcester generously supplied small pies for all who came that afternoon. Table Talk has generously supported this Somerville Math Fund event for nineteen years (2 years off for Covid). When planning the first SMF π Night in 2003; the Math Fund called the Table Talk Pi Company and explained what π day was and Table Talk generously donated large pies for prizes and small pies for everyone. Twenty-one years later, Table Talk Pies is not only still donating to the Somerville Pi night celebration, but also to many more celebrations. This year Table Talk donated about 68,000 pies to schools and organizations celebrating pi day.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzAhERZgtDQaZ0iGOvmo5yjObd_sZ9WIV3ONWyNnHf06lh4plJA4exq7CFynbIHZ2TNyKUGkxn8n1_sE5xPnljmX56Zl3-oNqLc1WjMC-Guvsll-MEEOy_LyzEEOYKqBLC2rmBBfmmpUJcBS1ga406niRCJ5sMNfiPuSEPC3bP5ukbNEo4NOuqcE4U/s4160/IMG20230313153514.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzAhERZgtDQaZ0iGOvmo5yjObd_sZ9WIV3ONWyNnHf06lh4plJA4exq7CFynbIHZ2TNyKUGkxn8n1_sE5xPnljmX56Zl3-oNqLc1WjMC-Guvsll-MEEOy_LyzEEOYKqBLC2rmBBfmmpUJcBS1ga406niRCJ5sMNfiPuSEPC3bP5ukbNEo4NOuqcE4U/s320/IMG20230313153514.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>A big thank you to all the Math Club volunteers and donors who made this fun, educational event possible. It takes a community to celebrate π day!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Dyf5K_lWib1LFUu0AMcmGOcwUQJbFkl2m9E14vtAwPxZ6iO379_aBAtOZTpKBVsXgnx0SQ_7WjkLsBgNzNq668YbgYSHOqkPkW3LbsuMy_a1Kk4UC3cf8jGmUA_ECO12_LqHSxQpQ35zmCnZfg3rZJZj6JllQroC93KaUYR5NADQi9PiQB25RaKW/s4160/IMG20230313160931.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Dyf5K_lWib1LFUu0AMcmGOcwUQJbFkl2m9E14vtAwPxZ6iO379_aBAtOZTpKBVsXgnx0SQ_7WjkLsBgNzNq668YbgYSHOqkPkW3LbsuMy_a1Kk4UC3cf8jGmUA_ECO12_LqHSxQpQ35zmCnZfg3rZJZj6JllQroC93KaUYR5NADQi9PiQB25RaKW/s320/IMG20230313160931.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund, was founded in 2000 with the mission to celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville, MA. They also award renewable college mathematics scholarships; applications will be due in early April. For more information, to make a donation, or to volunteer, visit www.somervillemathematicsfund.org or mathfund@gmail.com or call 617-666-0666.</p><div><br /></div><div>The Link to this page is <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/03/math-meet-pi-pizza-and-finally-pies.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/03/math-meet-pi-pizza-and-finally-pies.html</a></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-30239701999123247642023-02-01T11:07:00.002-05:002023-02-01T11:10:24.275-05:00Have a Great Idea on How to Teach Math? These Teachers Do!<p> Many teachers have great ideas on how to make their classrooms a better place for their students to learn math. The teachers’ ideas frequently outrun the budget schools have for supplies and their own ability to subsidize their classroom. The Somerville Mathematics Fund tries to fill this need through the generosity of their donors with grants up to $500. </p><p>William Kuhlman, James Dean Foundation, Mr & Mrs Donald McGoldrick each sponsored multiple grants. The East Cambridge Savings Bank, Jeremy Gale, Lali & Jay Haines, Jay & Jasper, William Kuhlman, Philip Parsons, Spring Hill Dental, Tufts University, Winter Hill Bank and Rebecca Wood-Spagnoli each sponsored a teacher's grant. The rest of the grants were funded thanks to the combined generosity of everyone who contributed to the Math Fund’s annual fundraiser. The following teachers won grants to encourage and support mathematics achievement in the classrooms of Somerville.</p><p>These Teacher Grants were funded by the many generous donors who together contributed enough in our annual fundraiser to support all of them. There is power in donations of many sizes coming together to support the larger whole. Thank you to our annual donors.</p><p>• Matthew Burch, Argenziano School (Math Instructional Coach K-8), Math instructional materials.</p><p>• Amanda Oppman, Healey School (Community Schools Site Coordinator After-School), Math Plus After-School Club 3rd-6th.</p><p>• Paula O’Sullivan, Swetha Kalluri & Jenna DiNovis, District-wide Math Interventionists, (K-8), Math Manipulatives.</p><p>• Katie Starbuck, Healey School and East Somerville Community School (Math Coach), Materials to Support Math Classes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Math Fund wants to thank the <i>James Dean Foundation</i> for generously underwriting the following teacher grants:</p><p>• Nicole Alimena, Healey School (5th, SEI-1), Math Station Manipulatives.</p><p>• Sabrina Boy-Arruda, Healey School (5th Math), Create Math Stations.</p><p>• Andrea Carcamo, Healey School (Dual Language Pre-K), Math Manipulatives.</p><p>• Susanne Douglas, Healey School (K), Math Activity Centers.</p><p>• Julie Gallardo, Healey School (4th SEI-1), Math Workshop and Intervention Materials.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Math Fund wants to thank each of the following for generously underwriting a teacher grant:</p><p><i>East Cambridge Savings Bank</i>:</p><p>• Dolores Theolien, Healey School (1st), Take Home Math Materials.</p><p><i>Jeremy Gale</i>:</p><p>• Johanna Cooney, Brown School (1st), STEM bin materials.</p><p><i>Lali and Jay Haines</i>:</p><p>• Michael Morgan, Somerville High School (AP Statistics), Numworks Calculators.</p><p><i>Jay and Jasper</i>:</p><p>• Meredith Rothstein, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (3rd-5th, Autism), Math Manipulatives.</p><p><i>William Kuhlman</i>:</p><p>• Jessica Anaya, East Somerville Community School (K), Math Manipulatives.</p><p>• Naina Sood Fox, East Somerville Community School (5th Math & Science), Fraction & Decimal Manipulatives.</p><p><i>Mr & Mrs. Donald McGoldrick</i>:</p><p>• Debra Dixon & Jacquelyn Berkowitz, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (Library and SMILE Pre-K), STEM Books.</p><p>• Molly Harrington, Argenziano School (2nd SEI Inclusion), Math Enrichment and Intervention Materials.</p><p><i>Philip Parsons:</i></p><p>• Mary-Kate Pereira, Argenziano School (K, SEI-1), Math Manipulatives.</p><p><i>Spring Hill Dental</i>: </p><p>• Roxane Scrima, Kennedy School (K), Math Games and Manipulatives.</p><p><i>Tufts University</i>:</p><p>• Alyssa Mackey, West Somerville Neighborhood School (7th & 8th Math), Support for Differentiated Materials.</p><p><i>Winter Hill Bank</i>:</p><p>• Andrea Palmer, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (K-8 Math Coach), Support Materials for K-8 Math and Multi-Lingual Teachers.</p><p><i>Rebecca Wood-Spagnoli</i>:</p><p>• Julie Jones, Lauren McGlashing, Shayna Goggin, Molly Dickerson, Jessica DaSilva, & Mallory Crane, Capuano School (K), Kindergarten Math Day.</p><p><br /></p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty-three years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded $140,711 in teacher grants supporting three hundred seventy-two teachers’ projects in the city of Somerville along with emergency grants to East Somerville teachers after the devastating school fire.</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>On April 7th, the fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships. Over twenty-three years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded a total of $559,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to one hundred eighteen students. Links to the scholarship application form is available at www.somervillemathematicsfund.org For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica Voolich (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com).</p><p>The link for this post is: <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2023/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html</a></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-31268589695902477912022-12-06T20:29:00.002-05:002022-12-06T20:31:01.237-05:00Time for Teachers to Get their Math Teacher Grant Applications Together!<p>Every year the Somerville Mathematics Fund offers teacher grants for K-12 teachers in Somerville who have interesting and exciting ideas to support math learning and enrichment for their students. The grant is open to teachers in all of the schools in Somerville, both public and parochial. <a href="https://somervillemathematicsfund.org/teacher-grants/" target="_blank">The grant application</a> is on the <a href="https://somervillemathematicsfund.org/teacher-grants/" target="_blank">Somerville Math Fund website</a> and is due by January 7, 2023.</p>The maximum amount of any grant is $500 per year. Previous winners are welcome to apply again as long as they have completed their report on the previous grant. You can read about some previous year’s grant winners on <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2020/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html">the Somerville Math Fund blog</a> or by requesting a copy of this year’s annual newsletter which was mailed in early December.<div><br />The Somerville Mathematics Fund, was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty years, the math fund has awarded $137,673 in teacher grants in the city of Somerville. You might want to listen to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rayp2ujjLA">TEDxSomerville talk</a> on the work of the Somerville Math Fund to learn about the various things the math fund is doing.<br /><br />In early April, the Somerville Math Fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships.<br /><br />The teacher grant application is available on<br /><a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">https://somervillemathematicsfund.org/teacher-grants/</a><br /><br />For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com)<div><br /></div><div>The link to blog post is<a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/11/time-for-teachers-to-apply-for.html"> </a><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u>https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/12/time-for-teachers-to-get-their-math.html</u></span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-84215975401980215622022-11-01T20:27:00.005-04:002022-11-01T20:27:43.631-04:00Scrapheap Showdown: Good Vibrations! The Video<p> On October 23, the 16th annual Scrapheap Showdown. You can read about all the details on the blog post </p><p><a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/10/scrapheap-showdown-good-vibrations.html" target="_blank">Scrapheap Showdown: Good Vibrations!</a></p><p>Now you can watch the video from Somerville EdTV, recorded by Bill Trudell and edited by Joe Constantine. </p><p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/jHNkMic1aiE&source=gmail&ust=1666899624822000&usg=AOvVaw3gYWEnWkJsw0byC1K50PSk" href="https://youtu.be/jHNkMic1aiE" id="m_-1245799921694233735LPlnk354872" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/jHNkMic1aiE</a></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-73249651008639161062022-10-25T15:42:00.006-04:002022-10-27T11:29:12.246-04:00 Scrapheap Showdown: Good Vibrations<p> by Erica Dakin Voolich</p><p>On October 23, 21 high school students on seven teams gathered in the Gantcher Gym at Tufts University to compete in the Somerville Math Fund’s 16th annual Scrapheap Showdown.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXCKxfJ9cYkKNtxjcP8ielDBvnJQ3vmSb78sUYUz4d0-rPrR2O25DLEr1wHdDmxzayKGPibH0B2h-QdCVfbcHSKWiXgBjhu1nRYaUjVTtbi4DLl9nihywHqtd3LG8OP7ATL6lSNFev8Le4m1KRwlex3Q1B5PhAcpuyzh26IvG3UF6BEeNU1HqLeb1/s3097/IMG20221023143841%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1471" data-original-width="3097" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXCKxfJ9cYkKNtxjcP8ielDBvnJQ3vmSb78sUYUz4d0-rPrR2O25DLEr1wHdDmxzayKGPibH0B2h-QdCVfbcHSKWiXgBjhu1nRYaUjVTtbi4DLl9nihywHqtd3LG8OP7ATL6lSNFev8Le4m1KRwlex3Q1B5PhAcpuyzh26IvG3UF6BEeNU1HqLeb1/w435-h206/IMG20221023143841%20crop.jpg" width="435" /></a></div><p>Their challenge was to build an earthquake proof building on their 16” by 16” square foam base. The buildings were judged on how much weight each could hold when placed on our earthquake-shaking-table. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjY2AedCjlPh7bB9mPT7uFcaYz8-_HYZfCgk8_kBbxqidEZoDaUn3sNKaH4gQ0roActdDdzB4gbjlElpO89j2sbQpEs_BF75ys4aM7R80TXZG2UghjXCLc-Vsv8uqPpoVqngW25m9CR3k5hMBofFrmX1rnZ-i_FyLAL540l7IAKaqX1lR4qVPRpuqr/s4160/IMG20221023151939.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjY2AedCjlPh7bB9mPT7uFcaYz8-_HYZfCgk8_kBbxqidEZoDaUn3sNKaH4gQ0roActdDdzB4gbjlElpO89j2sbQpEs_BF75ys4aM7R80TXZG2UghjXCLc-Vsv8uqPpoVqngW25m9CR3k5hMBofFrmX1rnZ-i_FyLAL540l7IAKaqX1lR4qVPRpuqr/s320/IMG20221023151939.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>The scoring was based on how high up the weight was held without the building collapsing, the best of 3 weight trials. The scoring was calculated with height squared times weight (measured in golf balls). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePlyLAZfkBMQZuAj4rOrh6ojodmTbY7wGWSFixAmPDva-tWlGXAXg7j1dtzl9B-4pStxasw3RDC1A5MtIsAd9k30efkPayjlgShwHBzopCKPv9xnZahlpVOycYDg_WkwvxlZ5QUNGjCo-OuHXnkRnqVjPCrG5Nx5zP620P72lOo8paybDM-EAZYky/s5472/DSC02844.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePlyLAZfkBMQZuAj4rOrh6ojodmTbY7wGWSFixAmPDva-tWlGXAXg7j1dtzl9B-4pStxasw3RDC1A5MtIsAd9k30efkPayjlgShwHBzopCKPv9xnZahlpVOycYDg_WkwvxlZ5QUNGjCo-OuHXnkRnqVjPCrG5Nx5zP620P72lOo8paybDM-EAZYky/s320/DSC02844.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p>This year when the students arrived, the usual scrapheap pile was smaller than in past years — the long structural pieces of foam core or wood were removed to add to the challenge. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCq1xGkl6U0lLYgL5QqgHBCpiL4vwJt_ibv8mSMjyfrt5hzGD1pyF3uz-Obk5ElOX5jvIuY6XCYb8Te71EIKoe_Zyf66kP8cnP8oF2Emsot0ZtSHTkB5pEn6-tx3xBGL9V8Y2a7PLeoC7esM7hbLBTQ-kyJsfhQIN67OmTZYphKfSUiwKZBpdgnb5s/s5472/DSC02842.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCq1xGkl6U0lLYgL5QqgHBCpiL4vwJt_ibv8mSMjyfrt5hzGD1pyF3uz-Obk5ElOX5jvIuY6XCYb8Te71EIKoe_Zyf66kP8cnP8oF2Emsot0ZtSHTkB5pEn6-tx3xBGL9V8Y2a7PLeoC7esM7hbLBTQ-kyJsfhQIN67OmTZYphKfSUiwKZBpdgnb5s/s320/DSC02842.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p>The buildings needed to be tall and so the students found their own way to use the materials to build strong tall structures. The contestants were very busy, planning and trying different ideas and doing some testing on the shaker table. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsB123EiUGF5ijGEViTGUK1gfCqI-qFilUQ1nB0ftg46ku5Yq5YsgXIE0Bs4CiCIH4FwhA_UWsfvivr1NOoNtkfh5GpmDlB4pDxLYy0Bd659bwheagufs5zaur539So7y65xb6e1fHPFY3GDMNltB_bgS6k3HDXQueU7CYtD7OMvbGp0oVmithevX/s4160/IMG20221023152232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsB123EiUGF5ijGEViTGUK1gfCqI-qFilUQ1nB0ftg46ku5Yq5YsgXIE0Bs4CiCIH4FwhA_UWsfvivr1NOoNtkfh5GpmDlB4pDxLYy0Bd659bwheagufs5zaur539So7y65xb6e1fHPFY3GDMNltB_bgS6k3HDXQueU7CYtD7OMvbGp0oVmithevX/s320/IMG20221023152232.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>After two hours, it was time to test the skyscrapers on our shaker table designed by Adam and Richard! The final structures ranged from 57” to 97” tall and varied from holding no golf balls to ten when shaken for 30 seconds. All structures survived at least 30 seconds on the shaker table, some held out longer than others.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZkbX82SaW3pJImbsECavB_tNEIl2NKMGMyiOyFchQhkAsrb-TRN8kLx9klidR00EK42s4WqH26LajC92Qv8YxJ6OoXGr7egC2ASNQhflRIhSOd2ybydE5HjaTAwpwMgZb7w1kAfNMAflDoK31Jw0-FllAPfFfmV0yqk2N4haQDb9IsPe_zUcG66e/s4160/IMG20221023133447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZkbX82SaW3pJImbsECavB_tNEIl2NKMGMyiOyFchQhkAsrb-TRN8kLx9klidR00EK42s4WqH26LajC92Qv8YxJ6OoXGr7egC2ASNQhflRIhSOd2ybydE5HjaTAwpwMgZb7w1kAfNMAflDoK31Jw0-FllAPfFfmV0yqk2N4haQDb9IsPe_zUcG66e/s320/IMG20221023133447.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>The first place team was “<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/g3sAm56B2Xe2zjiu9" target="_blank">Return of the Crimson Quackateers</a>” (Leo Chiu, Addie Chiu, and Yuvraj Rattan) with a score of 37,210 points for their 61” tall building that held 10 golf balls. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBz9pFX7q2RbUl9ozwyT4npSgAL1E0b1sVWmZ7jyHG6WG733VZMaYxelF2pE3VtsG-POjBlsDDXAOM-AHnf9hampW4TLFbM9HsQ4zKVU_JtwL1k1kYzTDdMwgXp90WrHJcUIrf6tVd0hTdQO8FmtLV_3HMZoVjvCj35piuq2D5bs-YfwIjhSm86mo/s4160/IMG20221023153548.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBz9pFX7q2RbUl9ozwyT4npSgAL1E0b1sVWmZ7jyHG6WG733VZMaYxelF2pE3VtsG-POjBlsDDXAOM-AHnf9hampW4TLFbM9HsQ4zKVU_JtwL1k1kYzTDdMwgXp90WrHJcUIrf6tVd0hTdQO8FmtLV_3HMZoVjvCj35piuq2D5bs-YfwIjhSm86mo/s320/IMG20221023153548.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vQwycwe5GIOz1hkFSwF1vsdGIMN3zYdbJ0WHvjYbtJ-jiUS-eWEmkg1IfyGeNTw20oKyctz83fOZadaozk8xsvM0vDvDPisS9K84uSuvMeTSNED_588ODGVcj3Yjhb8JraUnajGeAT9WFLwLsR67USB9YLJcZdjHJ0KQsS-Le1IF_0XjRIdMusjK/s5472/DSC02858.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vQwycwe5GIOz1hkFSwF1vsdGIMN3zYdbJ0WHvjYbtJ-jiUS-eWEmkg1IfyGeNTw20oKyctz83fOZadaozk8xsvM0vDvDPisS9K84uSuvMeTSNED_588ODGVcj3Yjhb8JraUnajGeAT9WFLwLsR67USB9YLJcZdjHJ0KQsS-Le1IF_0XjRIdMusjK/s320/DSC02858.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p>Second place was “<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/P1mw4ZeFaqJNSzFM6" target="_blank">Bob the Builder</a>” (Bhavroop Kaur, Rafael Ronen, and Serena Wong) with 34,300 points. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO31a1rSP9U5fxzqvTPbsJGOK1Gza5QX4Sm3ZcOGJzZ5mnOWhaB1DB83DOOpFs1oMSiY991ANh-C-2TxQy4ATWAxzNdM98vIUeg5o-Brit5PCjJbVDCc9ciDEk7dGv8INp2uZweuipx-T-duRCFo77-2xSsTtHBlm9xlckXZ-J5tV6qTA0DjkTEkhr/s4160/IMG20221023143453.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO31a1rSP9U5fxzqvTPbsJGOK1Gza5QX4Sm3ZcOGJzZ5mnOWhaB1DB83DOOpFs1oMSiY991ANh-C-2TxQy4ATWAxzNdM98vIUeg5o-Brit5PCjJbVDCc9ciDEk7dGv8INp2uZweuipx-T-duRCFo77-2xSsTtHBlm9xlckXZ-J5tV6qTA0DjkTEkhr/s320/IMG20221023143453.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Third place was “<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/yF7VDz5ZFRgTitAeA" target="_blank">Saint Bonkers</a>” (Yasmin Nazhar, Atticus Borggaard, and Edgar Flores Ramos) with 28,227 points. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFLOkOnTWrT5nmGF60Ro4WZx4PdA4ZHtuSiVK8cazyJAOU2srZI0Y6Q36Roh7upb7W4XSKI-hyJuyp-ILiUMI4zvqc-qpgePi9F61Zlfe9TIoonKLsEPKeszw5_OKtvgP04aJN0xViRIVaFPxi_dW1L-yN0tQYBVqlHavLKZkT5kaNWb02wcN7bP9/s4160/IMG20221023153725.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFLOkOnTWrT5nmGF60Ro4WZx4PdA4ZHtuSiVK8cazyJAOU2srZI0Y6Q36Roh7upb7W4XSKI-hyJuyp-ILiUMI4zvqc-qpgePi9F61Zlfe9TIoonKLsEPKeszw5_OKtvgP04aJN0xViRIVaFPxi_dW1L-yN0tQYBVqlHavLKZkT5kaNWb02wcN7bP9/s320/IMG20221023153725.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Fourth place was “<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/YSMTx2ABJpcPouxXA" target="_blank">BBG News</a>” (Cyrus Oakes, Christopher Montiel, and Julian Barnaby) with 28,227 points.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-IufdXMFsyU-DpYSsiVwWJaZA4zkwmzx6ReJ84QQO-he7TiIIF8EPMentVscmr4DZRr957EBF9r5GpWhkXpK8SSobKJkMvnJqO0aYCocQHhvttyQHFU9MsgtlNpc-bfYQTXxHI33DF5Gj33AeTq1QdTy0LKlx_BLrMYiAxBK869zUmzKE7pNn02M/s4160/IMG20221023153809.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin-IufdXMFsyU-DpYSsiVwWJaZA4zkwmzx6ReJ84QQO-he7TiIIF8EPMentVscmr4DZRr957EBF9r5GpWhkXpK8SSobKJkMvnJqO0aYCocQHhvttyQHFU9MsgtlNpc-bfYQTXxHI33DF5Gj33AeTq1QdTy0LKlx_BLrMYiAxBK869zUmzKE7pNn02M/s320/IMG20221023153809.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The teams chose their prizes in the order they finished. The prizes donated were three sets of two tickets to the RedSox (donated by Sam Voolich) for a game in April 2023, three $100 Target gift cards (donated by Chase Duclos-Orsello), three RedBones $50 gift cards from RedBones BBQ and 3 gift cards from Anna’s Taqueria (donated by long term Somerville Math Fund supporters).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_lsyF0Ct3lSEJxvbRKXoe0hzZge5IEsGrUtPcanfyDRwRWYQ4Mp2yLUlUu_Vp3u10SJf8zOFovoZj91u35_ehcdhMRvVOIlNgRXG2J0r09r88If_L_yk6yUgt6mWbHIlSh1PSpNm0HXg7uKSb98as2FmvQlK9r_qq08hPyXEOFuOnn29QTlacjjo/s4160/IMG20221023144754.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_lsyF0Ct3lSEJxvbRKXoe0hzZge5IEsGrUtPcanfyDRwRWYQ4Mp2yLUlUu_Vp3u10SJf8zOFovoZj91u35_ehcdhMRvVOIlNgRXG2J0r09r88If_L_yk6yUgt6mWbHIlSh1PSpNm0HXg7uKSb98as2FmvQlK9r_qq08hPyXEOFuOnn29QTlacjjo/s320/IMG20221023144754.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>The other participating teams were the “<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/hGXzyjWeUKrJgSPL6" target="_blank">No Name Team</a>” (Helena Easton, Ana Luna Maldonado Clougherty, and Evelyn Flores), </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCO93japAcxkT5I7iYSPDU7lXNKq2NVnOCRaAn2Y2O0dkZuHrlao8lGT0LktgevEYy0vKxC2s_PyaxAmyN2cjRSDA-eMPkKKrkg0SOvWgf6ryowWXFJwT2_7SJjBtwdvnkt5aE4WCpC6mj-aak4U5rnaXKmgEXYtKsx8ccs_drbUDAFwJFnItYFDJK/s4160/IMG20221023135543.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCO93japAcxkT5I7iYSPDU7lXNKq2NVnOCRaAn2Y2O0dkZuHrlao8lGT0LktgevEYy0vKxC2s_PyaxAmyN2cjRSDA-eMPkKKrkg0SOvWgf6ryowWXFJwT2_7SJjBtwdvnkt5aE4WCpC6mj-aak4U5rnaXKmgEXYtKsx8ccs_drbUDAFwJFnItYFDJK/s320/IMG20221023135543.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>the “<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/7hiDfNMQ6Yj54CXf8">Funny Name Team</a>” (Gerran Hullah, Aneurin Hullah, and Miles Eisenbraum), </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipH4JzrA9REdOgmla0osykOQ5kpkdd-5GZvpJ-k0Xe4Xl7NGB_dK8DWaK-j5Si4yWjam_EreWoTg2_0CfOn2NVYW2uEO4HKzJZ9DpZQEt9rBBMpgxueFKr4aodz005efqanaKrNQFDqhfUEN1UkQ6K3L5SqnzM3En-4DY1kPDv5gr5RphE1D2AwvtU/s4160/IMG20221023143342.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipH4JzrA9REdOgmla0osykOQ5kpkdd-5GZvpJ-k0Xe4Xl7NGB_dK8DWaK-j5Si4yWjam_EreWoTg2_0CfOn2NVYW2uEO4HKzJZ9DpZQEt9rBBMpgxueFKr4aodz005efqanaKrNQFDqhfUEN1UkQ6K3L5SqnzM3En-4DY1kPDv5gr5RphE1D2AwvtU/s320/IMG20221023143342.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>and “<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/RfHx5aFmXNNpU3ms9" target="_blank">Los Pollos Hermanos</a>” (Jonathan Chan, Veid Patel, and Sebastian Palomino <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jimenez)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslhFfQb4Q-T_Zkuu7RneJ6NWq1tA5ijXnKOtYzTht-EHExQDT0vDhS0wPug-CAy4Jc582GFhx8DaWPK3AqwRw7vA_ezB92P35SjDW1XLV67VbukbddkPBtMWQCZDeZE_f1Q2WKLgk2F1hLb2jR5HVPCRc4WdniJNQBhHaxhtxCObYf_d-rIWEGUW6/s5472/DSC02860.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslhFfQb4Q-T_Zkuu7RneJ6NWq1tA5ijXnKOtYzTht-EHExQDT0vDhS0wPug-CAy4Jc582GFhx8DaWPK3AqwRw7vA_ezB92P35SjDW1XLV67VbukbddkPBtMWQCZDeZE_f1Q2WKLgk2F1hLb2jR5HVPCRc4WdniJNQBhHaxhtxCObYf_d-rIWEGUW6/s320/DSC02860.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p>Designers and refiners of the challenge were members of the Somerville Math Fund Board: Sanford Bogage, Chase Duclos-Orsello, Adam Foster, Richard Graf, Dan Oshima, Jesse Stern, Erica Voolich, Susan Weiss along with Fred Bernardin joined as a volunteer. Amy Weiss designed the teeshirt and Monica Fernandes designed the sponsor flyer; and Susan and Sanford designed the student recruiting and registration materials, and Sanford managed registration and the Google Classroom for this event.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVv4CNQg_7RvWaDv2FKsEUiyW0EkbQ0YI-huSdOeHXWMFsAOzz9bH0DZp_swtOhrg3forfwGI-vt3y4jXQcZsY3NHp1zMQDu3bV_y9oD0vCvwQxpbqOZSFHo9s51IYMDg5y00gcrKUE5qgkrPiHmxmsw-B7B46HaHwVboKqsFyNQGjqBp2bkAJmLy/s4160/IMG20221023133619.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVv4CNQg_7RvWaDv2FKsEUiyW0EkbQ0YI-huSdOeHXWMFsAOzz9bH0DZp_swtOhrg3forfwGI-vt3y4jXQcZsY3NHp1zMQDu3bV_y9oD0vCvwQxpbqOZSFHo9s51IYMDg5y00gcrKUE5qgkrPiHmxmsw-B7B46HaHwVboKqsFyNQGjqBp2bkAJmLy/s320/IMG20221023133619.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Michael Morgan and Patricia Murphy-Sheehy (Head of Math Department) at Somerville High helped with suggestions and distribution help of registration materials. The math teachers at Somerville High School, recruited student teams. Bill Trudell videoed the event for Somerville Cable EdTV Channel 15.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVJM0AM49qvU2wuFpetjNzqePRXw_jmJlMbJue4PzvcDN0OMZ9JaGBjNv9_YVSAO_DAP-m7L0Ih2ZAkooDlxv4uWdR0yq5U8TlGJb_sQSQJceZFj2Zt1sAlZvaMc9UDaVvNzFUiErlwtDxZcC2L4kw3QkJSib6agQDHtzwNmyh2G7AmwuAbDBRYRXL/s4160/IMG20221023141434.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVJM0AM49qvU2wuFpetjNzqePRXw_jmJlMbJue4PzvcDN0OMZ9JaGBjNv9_YVSAO_DAP-m7L0Ih2ZAkooDlxv4uWdR0yq5U8TlGJb_sQSQJceZFj2Zt1sAlZvaMc9UDaVvNzFUiErlwtDxZcC2L4kw3QkJSib6agQDHtzwNmyh2G7AmwuAbDBRYRXL/s320/IMG20221023141434.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Again Tufts University was our wonderful host donating their gym space for a Sunday event. It was so good to be back after a three year COVID hiatus. This was our 16th Scrapheap Showdown and Tufts has been our host for all of these events. </p><p>Thanks to our generous sponsors, this activity was both a fund raiser for a scholarship and three teacher grants, provided prizes for the students and allowed the students to participate without paying any registration fee. Like in the Game Jams, this year we offered different levels of sponsorship for the event. Thanks to all of our wonderful donors whose donations will make at least one scholarship available next spring and three teacher grants in January.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6naI36LT44j1rj6d2ygn8nG8Sl79x8HcZMyT5zb4E2noN09J-Xl7ZaVbard_gYJ0eWeC9dI-VZYTu3NDwCM7cQkaFktAZM9yrwxWetuKkzWii0N9WRUD1ljZLTh1LDsZfv0ALKdFIKyAh5LXPqClpG0sczTXIgLdQB9Y_pawOoi8sPxI-NLcntnXP/s4160/IMG20221023151403.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6naI36LT44j1rj6d2ygn8nG8Sl79x8HcZMyT5zb4E2noN09J-Xl7ZaVbard_gYJ0eWeC9dI-VZYTu3NDwCM7cQkaFktAZM9yrwxWetuKkzWii0N9WRUD1ljZLTh1LDsZfv0ALKdFIKyAh5LXPqClpG0sczTXIgLdQB9Y_pawOoi8sPxI-NLcntnXP/s320/IMG20221023151403.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Gold Level (one year of a college scholarship each): Commercial Cleaning Co./Bickoff Family, Jasper J. Lawson, PhD. & Associates, Julie Schneider, and Winter Hill Bank.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQwneNtm7KeLgRAjxqFPhqDBCBdX2CYpzw9MRuy8szOKqChTZ631vWVCr-p0HhI_8Z-viHutnRXq8XO7nDqvQ5hqIRzZBAcgsy0KL9dw2-5urHvlDWvJUrzdGdI5yU98D0gkPj56hrQHdZQP9pjPp3lI76d_DMzdrg1eHpssyGI3np7jGPryAJzzJ/s4160/IMG20221023143426.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQwneNtm7KeLgRAjxqFPhqDBCBdX2CYpzw9MRuy8szOKqChTZ631vWVCr-p0HhI_8Z-viHutnRXq8XO7nDqvQ5hqIRzZBAcgsy0KL9dw2-5urHvlDWvJUrzdGdI5yU98D0gkPj56hrQHdZQP9pjPp3lI76d_DMzdrg1eHpssyGI3np7jGPryAJzzJ/s320/IMG20221023143426.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Silver Level (one teacher grant each): East Cambridge Savings Bank, Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. McGoldrick, and a long term sponsor.</p><p>Bronze Level (supporting Somerville Math Fund work): Chase Duclos-Orsello, Midé Technology Corporation, A Member of the Somerville High School Faculty, and RedBones BBQ</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj6CiWC5AXgsQDsn1jyZk2pImPAmU8zKyqzjVUrxYYWaH8pZzM4z4nmxffBaD8ZNiyl_ePE_Oq10hwDhApof2UkQtEuk2YGm3dyidnemfNEzb2jfzPB-Fxdf3X7LkBdTRSt3DWjqR61pqhiQFAnK_QanHzH_XiNc2bGwNgDrg0oy1isF7h51jXQ5yU/s4160/IMG20221023132153.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj6CiWC5AXgsQDsn1jyZk2pImPAmU8zKyqzjVUrxYYWaH8pZzM4z4nmxffBaD8ZNiyl_ePE_Oq10hwDhApof2UkQtEuk2YGm3dyidnemfNEzb2jfzPB-Fxdf3X7LkBdTRSt3DWjqR61pqhiQFAnK_QanHzH_XiNc2bGwNgDrg0oy1isF7h51jXQ5yU/s320/IMG20221023132153.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville. On January 7th, we will be looking for teacher grant applications; and in April, we will be looking for scholarship applications. For more information or to volunteer or to make a donation, call 617-666-0666, e-mail mathfund@gmail.com, or go to <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org">www.somervillemathematicsfund.org</a>.</p><div><br /></div>© Erica Dakin Voolich, 2022<div><br /><div>The link to this page is: <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/10/scrapheap-showdown-good-vibrations.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/10/scrapheap-showdown-good-vibrations.html</a></div><div><br /></div></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-10542750664008089332022-09-15T10:33:00.001-04:002022-09-15T10:45:37.679-04:00The Scrapheap Showdown is Coming --- time to get your teams together!<p> </p><p>Scrapheap Showdown is Coming ... time to get your teams together. Get two more friends and register your team. Choose a crazy name for the team and then all come on October 23rd to Tufts U Gantcher Center.</p><p>After two years off for the Pandemic, Scrapheap Showdown is finally back. </p><p><br />The <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/">Somerville Math Fund's</a> annual high school engineering challenge is coming on <b>Sunday October 23rd. It will be held at the Gantcher Center at Tufts University. Sign-in is at noon. </b></p><p><b>But you must <a href="https://forms.gle/5FVvFvL3cFNRfeL2A">register before online here</a> before October 7th.</b></p><p>Teams of three will arrive to discover what will be their challenge to build this year. If you're interested in seeing some of the previous years' projects, <a href="http://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/search/label/scrapheap%20showdown">click here</a>.</p><p><br />To compete you must be a high school student living in Somerville MA. <a href="https://forms.gle/5FVvFvL3cFNRfeL2A">Click here to register online</a>. Somerville high school students are encouraged to register and participate.</p><p>Start organizing your team NOW, the registration is due on October 7th.<br /><br />In the past, the teams not only came up with creative names for their teams, but they also came up with interesting creative solutions to the annual challenges. We always have great prizes.<br /><br />Go forth and form your teams of three!</p><p>Scrapheap Showdown is Coming ... time to get your teams together. Get two more friends and <a href="https://forms.gle/5FVvFvL3cFNRfeL2A">register your team</a>. Choose a crazy name for the team and then all come on October 23rd to Tufts U Gantcher Center.<br /><br />Good Luck!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisVzBdQIeAedVzSyR82XwBI9NCHnB5luRs4GtSEUf92mAb7zTvX1Y3-9FGXYJu3BU4ZiGEnArythN6O-dlv0tI5IfvSDeoEwH7JmmJ4SQjZaj45RWknpT9_os6FXkYHyQS9oPK2dHBdH5-QYHVV-jCOSy2HKvqrFUhX60lKiVEMqFpuKPb4l9WVggc/s1023/Scrapheap%20QR.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="1023" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisVzBdQIeAedVzSyR82XwBI9NCHnB5luRs4GtSEUf92mAb7zTvX1Y3-9FGXYJu3BU4ZiGEnArythN6O-dlv0tI5IfvSDeoEwH7JmmJ4SQjZaj45RWknpT9_os6FXkYHyQS9oPK2dHBdH5-QYHVV-jCOSy2HKvqrFUhX60lKiVEMqFpuKPb4l9WVggc/s320/Scrapheap%20QR.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>For questions, contact the Somerville Math Fund at mathfund@gmail.com</p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The link to his page is:<a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-scrapheap-showdown-is-coming-time.html"> https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-scrapheap-showdown-is-coming-time.html</a></p><p><br /></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-90604274448039060992022-06-09T14:12:00.003-04:002022-06-09T14:13:22.004-04:00Outstanding Math Students Win Scholarships<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEHAPXCBxTisuYTgOHBKb1vNFnqFJGh0YB_5pQbRPR_yL3OLoYOyZC-Ltsil_1uUGA3Fcxsjo_aXrd5X40o0MqkWtpceM0rd63YHaiMN75PrBiX2sjjJfhIIkwvg_7KesHeaP3LjT07kZWOC8q1kr1Vz2pasjz9PjMkt1BhHskBe8FUV5dMSbJjc-/s2025/2022Winners.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2025" data-original-width="2025" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEHAPXCBxTisuYTgOHBKb1vNFnqFJGh0YB_5pQbRPR_yL3OLoYOyZC-Ltsil_1uUGA3Fcxsjo_aXrd5X40o0MqkWtpceM0rd63YHaiMN75PrBiX2sjjJfhIIkwvg_7KesHeaP3LjT07kZWOC8q1kr1Vz2pasjz9PjMkt1BhHskBe8FUV5dMSbJjc-/w400-h400/2022Winners.jpg" title="Top Row (left to right): Ezra Brody, Sam Diener, Lucy Gunther; Middle Row: Rio Hunter Black, Katherine Johnson, Ian Morales; Bottom Row: Iskandar Nazhar, Nikhilesh Rattan, and Leensyn Rivera Asmen" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund is pleased to announce the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2022. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals and a few organizations, this year we were able to award a record 9 scholarships, totaling $54,000 over four years.</p><p>Top Row (left to right): Ezra Brody, Sam Diener, Lucy Gunther; Middle Row: Rio Hunter Black, Katherine Johnson, Ian Morales; Bottom Row: Iskandar Nazhar, Nikhilesh Rattan, and Leensyn Rivera Asmen</p><div>Due to a COVID-19 outbreak at the high school during awards week, we were unable to personally award the scholarships at the awards night for a third year. The school handed the students a certificate which named their scholarship, then the President of the Somerville Math Fund or the donor of their scholarship called each of them to tell them about their award and that a letter was in the mail with more details.</div><p>We definitely want to celebrate our scholarship winners for their achievements while meeting the challenges of going to high school, much of it was during a pandemic. CONGRATULATIONS. </p><p>The winners are attending a variety of schools next fall. Ezra Brody will attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sam Diener, Case Western Reserve University; Lucy Gunther and Ian Morales, Carnegie Mellon University; Rio Hunter Black and Nikhilesh Rattan, Tufts University; Kate Johnson, University of Virginia; Iskander Nazhar, University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Leensyn Rivera Asmen, Simmons University</p><p><br /></p><p>A bit of explanation about the scholarship names. Some scholarships are supported by many donations, some large, some small — but together there is $6000 for each student. For those student who participated in Game Jam this year, we had sponsors who each sponsored one year of a scholarship. We have some named annual scholarships, two memorial scholarships are for founders of the Somerville Math Fund. One of our named scholarships is given by one of our first scholarship winners back in 2001 in the name of his favorite famous mathematician. One is given in memory of a mother who distinguished herself in WW2 as a nurse and saved for her children’s education.</p><p>Their annual scholarships of $1500 are renewable for up to a total of four years as long as they maintain a B average and take mathematics or courses which use mathematics. </p><p>There were four memorial scholarships this year: Dr. Alice T Schafer Scholarship, Lt. Catherine M. Landers, S. Ramanujan, and Michael Voolich.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09hfDLBwcaV5FYZJ099Nyb7Z3i7jCT0ObkdDXgDjMDtkc9pI78nLZWsUQ_JJO8BENNbfyubBSa0b0xaq0-UMc_RxUgiKH97DI8kDHd9411wnK2THGXFNba0BrTrW8AOPQJ-ZRuejQX3Ce_jL16mvB842k5dNj2D0Edd0QG6mSs6AHYd9zh8kgqz39/s1236/GUNTHER%20Lucy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="827" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09hfDLBwcaV5FYZJ099Nyb7Z3i7jCT0ObkdDXgDjMDtkc9pI78nLZWsUQ_JJO8BENNbfyubBSa0b0xaq0-UMc_RxUgiKH97DI8kDHd9411wnK2THGXFNba0BrTrW8AOPQJ-ZRuejQX3Ce_jL16mvB842k5dNj2D0Edd0QG6mSs6AHYd9zh8kgqz39/s320/GUNTHER%20Lucy.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Lucy Gunther, Alice T Schafer Memorial Scholarship</p><p>One of the scholarships was given in the memory of an outstanding woman mathematician, Dr. Alice T. Schafer. Lucy Gunther was awarded the Alice T. Schafer Memorial Scholarship, she is planning on majoring Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon.</p><p>Dr. Schafer (1915 - 2009) was orphaned as an infant and raised by two aunts. When she went to college at the University of Richmond of Virginia, women students weren’t allowed in the library and she was discouraged from majoring in mathematics. She won prizes, earned a PhD, taught at colleges (including Wellesley) and among the things she is known for is helping start the Association for Women in Mathematics (1971). </p><p>Less known about Dr. Schafer was her role helping to start the Somerville Mathematics Fund in 2000 -- attending all of the planning meetings and contributing to their work as long as she was able. She is remembered for her passion and work to insure mathematical opportunities for women. Lucy sees herself as someone with the mind-set to solve practical problems for the society, be it solving packaging or mobility problems, she realized this was the mindset of an engineer. Since Dr. Schafer was committed to the education and supporting women in mathematics, Lucy’s majoring in Mechanical Engineering is a wonderful way to honor Dr. Alice Schafer's memory of encouraging women in the maths and sciences.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzCT-D1mMA4TkShiFRpM5mxdx6tHP4OTNzA15qMXWS0KMrZjIX4qETd1CS9-xiUdl1fnkDrZBXVH2Gu8A899yP1zOV7pGz7sgvDEmFU71QNGrbRiVAqoTiK37FpWnqa6_abrKk0EGQKuziQZxGRPPEOtEvUd7SsbtIlE-I7ySxHEiW7wFSR71KdIe5/s5472/HUNTER%20BLACK%20Rio.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzCT-D1mMA4TkShiFRpM5mxdx6tHP4OTNzA15qMXWS0KMrZjIX4qETd1CS9-xiUdl1fnkDrZBXVH2Gu8A899yP1zOV7pGz7sgvDEmFU71QNGrbRiVAqoTiK37FpWnqa6_abrKk0EGQKuziQZxGRPPEOtEvUd7SsbtIlE-I7ySxHEiW7wFSR71KdIe5/s320/HUNTER%20BLACK%20Rio.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rio Hunter Black, Lt. Catherine Landers Memorial Scholarship</div><p>The Lt. Catherine M. Landers Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Rio Hunter Black. Rio has an interest in medical research. When Lt. Landers (1920 - 2012) wanted to go to nursing school (graduating in 1942), her grandmother opened a cedar chest were she had been saving dollar bills to help pay for her granddaughter’s education. Lt Landers won a Bronze Star for her service during WW2, where she ran a field hospital outside Paris; she was about to be shipped to the far East when WW2 ended and so she boarded a transport ship for the USA instead. Jay Landers and Jasper Lawson donated a scholarship in her memory, honoring her commitment to education. Rio Hunter Black's interest in medical research with a Biology major at Tufts is a wonderful way to honor Lt. Landers' commitment to education.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCeEo5pa-WSPuj7prLswUhr6RnLEr_JENGN9qdr9cNBctUzIbND2T6w4Yo6Q-YuchRW_xVAckQhkaI_JufsKcUiIhdZYUGZCoxyMtbtHe86r1XNvjlpt53SIJR9FDArRjUJpCfqlaGJAat6qngmMQPWcpUqrqQcqWdBUKA3ASU7MGxcLxY6Ya7rV3w/s4032/NAZHAR%20Iskandar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCeEo5pa-WSPuj7prLswUhr6RnLEr_JENGN9qdr9cNBctUzIbND2T6w4Yo6Q-YuchRW_xVAckQhkaI_JufsKcUiIhdZYUGZCoxyMtbtHe86r1XNvjlpt53SIJR9FDArRjUJpCfqlaGJAat6qngmMQPWcpUqrqQcqWdBUKA3ASU7MGxcLxY6Ya7rV3w/s320/NAZHAR%20Iskandar.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Iskandar Nazhar, S. Ramanujan Memorial Scholarship</p><p>Our scholarship in the memory of S. Ramanujan, it is a gift from the Jha Family and is awarded to Iskandar Nazhar who is planning on attending UMass Amherst. Iskandar Nazhar wants a career in pure math. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) was a mostly self-taught brilliant Indian mathematician who sadly died young. He discovered his love of mathematics while in high school when he found a book that listed 4000 mathematical theorems without information on they were discovered or developed. So he continued his math work, often on a slate, only recording his concluding theorem on paper when finished, without the details of how he came to the conclusion. With his humble beginnings and no formal mathematical training, the story of his life and how he finally connected with the well-known mathematicians of his day is detailed the book and movie, <i>The Man Who Knew Infinity</i>. That book inspired the Jha family who gave this scholarship in his honor. Ramanujan’s notebooks and papers have included both previously discovered and new mathematical theorems many in number theory. These notebooks have continued to provide mathematicians with material to study and try to figure out how Ramanujan discovered these theorems and to see if they were provable. </p><p>Iskandar’s love of and talent for math led him to taking many college math classes while still in high school. He already had S. Ramanujan as one of his heroes. A perfect match with the sponsor of this scholarship who also was inspired by S. Ramanujan as a high school student more than twenty years ago.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFwXUbYYZiRbvV4Pr74u3jJRS54m3zoS2ldUobC1o2lFW_SKHFKV7Zm2LUbx0W7GHUnF8iNlGl-RAgoKEtHHH3aojoG3COG1hv_eU82BOfmwSOaMRE3E-ULdHIGJX14qB-ED_Uh11mo_sx-ReO1RV-lMR7zIAJvvt994q7u7-O6h9gDQvi05s40V-/s4608/DiENER%20samuel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFwXUbYYZiRbvV4Pr74u3jJRS54m3zoS2ldUobC1o2lFW_SKHFKV7Zm2LUbx0W7GHUnF8iNlGl-RAgoKEtHHH3aojoG3COG1hv_eU82BOfmwSOaMRE3E-ULdHIGJX14qB-ED_Uh11mo_sx-ReO1RV-lMR7zIAJvvt994q7u7-O6h9gDQvi05s40V-/s320/DiENER%20samuel.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sam Diener, Michael Voolich Memorial Scholarship</div><p>The Michael Voolich Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Samuel Diener who is interested majoring in Physics at Case Western Reserve. Michael Voolich (1943 - 2019) was a person who was interested in how everything worked, if Renaissance man was a job offering, Michael would have applied. He learned by asking questions and then he loved telling everyone what he had learned and how seemingly disparate things were related. He had a career than included teaching many different subjects in local schools, none of which was math. But, he married a math teacher. So, when the Somerville Math Fund was being discussed and organized in his living room, of course he joined the founding board. </p><p>He liked to do things for people and of course for the math fund. His telephone calls and trips to Table Talk Pie Company each year for city-wide Pi Night celebration were a highlight each year. He especially loved helping find things for others to donate for the Scrapheap Showdown each year and his marvelous multiple clamps will still be a necessary part of future Scrapheap challenges to come. </p><p>Michael loved to be able to give and help others in the local community along with his extended family here and abroad. This scholarship was funded by the many people who donated in his memory to the Somerville Math Fund. Sam participated in Scrapheap before it was canceled due to COVID the last couple of years. Sam’s interest in helping the community and solving problems would definitely be much that Michael would have loved to have talked about with Sam.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX49MJZppL64hb7vaBWvcu1C828XSAmMte0j_qqgCR41x0CeQC9FaUjynea6YqpCr846h5jPHqpzIVHesYf5mu3Q6p7-J-F8C43nDZCNMAlGaKI8ZUS3nBNbYosJGXXzUBE5qvfj86aq9rpUEa8IuyxWwkZKfUMZt7YXb6seSM0p8dR6JEIxskTqUp/s3042/MORALES%20Ian%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3042" data-original-width="2481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX49MJZppL64hb7vaBWvcu1C828XSAmMte0j_qqgCR41x0CeQC9FaUjynea6YqpCr846h5jPHqpzIVHesYf5mu3Q6p7-J-F8C43nDZCNMAlGaKI8ZUS3nBNbYosJGXXzUBE5qvfj86aq9rpUEa8IuyxWwkZKfUMZt7YXb6seSM0p8dR6JEIxskTqUp/s320/MORALES%20Ian%20.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ian Morales, Neva Durand Sponsored Scholarship</div><p>The Somerville Math Fund Scholarship generously donated by Neva Durand went to Ian Morales. “Congratulations on your well-deserved success. You should be very proud of what you’ve accomplished.” Ian will be attending Carnegie Mellon to major in Mechanical Engineering. He has an interest in using engineering to solve real world problems with clean energy and water and then finding a way to give back to other first generation students in Somerville.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc9u_SZ-HpMmM1i-AK_fgJTcjFc6svnabCw7SzmyvZyRspB05Dow8lBv_i7rNcY65OJw6vMJmS3GbZiYIo9yS5taNSxFaIIwg_ifKHmiXKS0TMiOco6_Q8kTBX8lGl7LUQqKunmqzI5a_RJjZaD_4L05zbsOQkGo3ZqETnz0A24JSLIpn5453B4hA/s5484/JOHNSON%20Kate.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5484" data-original-width="3656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc9u_SZ-HpMmM1i-AK_fgJTcjFc6svnabCw7SzmyvZyRspB05Dow8lBv_i7rNcY65OJw6vMJmS3GbZiYIo9yS5taNSxFaIIwg_ifKHmiXKS0TMiOco6_Q8kTBX8lGl7LUQqKunmqzI5a_RJjZaD_4L05zbsOQkGo3ZqETnz0A24JSLIpn5453B4hA/s320/JOHNSON%20Kate.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Kate Johnson, the Julie Schneider, the Bickoff Family, Winter Hill Bank and Tufts University Scholarship</p><p>The Somerville Math Fund Scholarship, generously sponsored by four sponsors of Game Jam #2 was won by Katherine Johnson. Our annual high school engineering competition, Scrapheap Showdown, was canceled again by COVID in October 2021. In lieu of the live event, usually in a gym at Tufts University, we held an online Game Jam where students created games for others to play and evaluate. The four donors who each paid for one year of Katherine’s scholarship were Julie Schneider, the Bickoff Family, Winter Hill Bank, and Tufts University. Kate has been involved in projects and activities around wellness while in school. She sees mathematics (data interpretation, quantitative reasoning, and statistical analysis) as a way to improve societal health. So, Kate is planning on attending the University of Virginia to major in Public Health.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKGlx5dJFHHZgFTnvdrZVpvjDEZD3vTI5e1rky8krm_Io3EqSoFQFrW37uvaqEPAPKnxGA9aZxxmoZEd-GHG_9McYpnRdO8eI9GYWGxTQcg2kfTeOp3nd9dej4CaQTx64A9EvsPGdOhvrqgXdCcLDc_XWQjVKIfh0-XipA6aRi5JxtH-9VEx1zOsCO/s806/BRODY%20Ezra.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="614" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKGlx5dJFHHZgFTnvdrZVpvjDEZD3vTI5e1rky8krm_Io3EqSoFQFrW37uvaqEPAPKnxGA9aZxxmoZEd-GHG_9McYpnRdO8eI9GYWGxTQcg2kfTeOp3nd9dej4CaQTx64A9EvsPGdOhvrqgXdCcLDc_XWQjVKIfh0-XipA6aRi5JxtH-9VEx1zOsCO/s320/BRODY%20Ezra.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Ezra Brody, East Cambridge Savings Bank and Somerville Math Fund Scholarship (one award)</p><p>The Somerville Math Fund Scholarship partially sponsored by East Cambridge Savings Bank, and the other half by generous donors to the Somerville Math Fund was won by Ezra Brody. Ezra has an interest in the life of microorganisms and the process of novel drug development. With my desire for a career focused on the ethical medical applications of biochemistry, I want to also investigate pharmacology and the body’s response to diseases and treatments. Ezra plans to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and major in Biochemistry and Biophysics.</p><p>The Somerville Math Fund is able to award scholarships and teacher grants thanks to the generosity of our donors. We have some who are able to make large donations, but some who can only make small ones. All of those donations together made it possible to award two more scholarships, one to Nikhilesh Rattan and the other to Leensyn Rivera Asmen. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_pLPFBg5jhExiZVmJ1TWSMD275ZT9qGWKd1nlvKgmFr3qrK-HS70an_f34c40A09WTgBrGbG8WDoqQRpIOEWxaBVSsgmYa6VsUj74-aQdlE8087N0czeSVGO-Fur2Q4-NoFMB9OxxbK9nu6lk-XJTQLPw5Lwio_1i6y9XdGjsjNClqMM-qSav7VTo/s398/RATTAN%20NIkhilesh.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_pLPFBg5jhExiZVmJ1TWSMD275ZT9qGWKd1nlvKgmFr3qrK-HS70an_f34c40A09WTgBrGbG8WDoqQRpIOEWxaBVSsgmYa6VsUj74-aQdlE8087N0czeSVGO-Fur2Q4-NoFMB9OxxbK9nu6lk-XJTQLPw5Lwio_1i6y9XdGjsjNClqMM-qSav7VTo/s320/RATTAN%20NIkhilesh.jpeg" width="228" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Nikhilesh Rattan, the Somerville Math Fund Scholarship</p><p>Nikhilesh Rattan is interested in space technology and plans on majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnF1qBl3IKsUGq-56sDrO_y4EiBxXTPxKtuQHdx-XVwmzFEvHC4PIt5KsmcYjs8bB1TfCbb3ICsDQaC-h_qCK6eGjvcw6smRvxo8wHBlZMu8tKrVSGbcXlPoxpYAvILC_IVje3cVrFn_6eJzwwFVd3EGyT0EbfvManF_bnxWd7-DP-8Sanflddm7f/s4032/RIVERA%20ASMEN%20Leensyn.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnF1qBl3IKsUGq-56sDrO_y4EiBxXTPxKtuQHdx-XVwmzFEvHC4PIt5KsmcYjs8bB1TfCbb3ICsDQaC-h_qCK6eGjvcw6smRvxo8wHBlZMu8tKrVSGbcXlPoxpYAvILC_IVje3cVrFn_6eJzwwFVd3EGyT0EbfvManF_bnxWd7-DP-8Sanflddm7f/s320/RIVERA%20ASMEN%20Leensyn.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Leensyn Rivera Asmen, the Somerville Math Fund Scholarship</p><p>Leensyn Rivera Asmen is interested in climate justice and sustainability and plans on majoring in Environmental Science and Computer Science at Simmons University. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. It May 2011, it was recognized as the outstanding Dollars for Scholars Chapter in New England. Since it's founding in 2000, it has awarded $554,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to one hundred eighteen outstanding Somerville students. </p><p><br /></p><p>Erica Dakin Voolich, 2022</p><p>The link to this page is <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/06/outstanding-math-students-win.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/06/outstanding-math-students-win.html</a></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-73573553840110534802022-02-04T11:26:00.001-05:002022-02-04T11:28:11.956-05:00Have a Great Idea on How to Teach Math? These Teachers Do!<p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Many teachers have great ideas on how to make their classrooms a better place for their students to learn math. The teachers’ ideas frequently outrun the budget schools have for supplies and their own ability to subsidize their classroom. The Somerville Mathematics Fund tries to fill this need through the generosity of their donors. </p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This year and last have been unusual school years. The Somerville Public School buildings were closed in early March 2020. Schools finally reopened for most students in the last week of April 2021. The students have been back in school this year, with pandemic precautions in place —it is not a “normal school year” like “back in the old days” pre-COVID. The classroom teachers and students have had to adapt to new routines and expectations.</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This year we have ten teacher winners. Each teacher’s grant has a generous sponsor who is making their teacher’s work easier. Our congratulations to each of the winners and our thanks to each of the sponsors for their generous support:</p><p>• Johanna Cooney, Brown School (1st), math games, and organizational supplies, Sponsored by Rebecca Wood-Spagnoli.</p><p>• Julie Dabenigno, Missy Metteis, and Jenifer Leary for Kennedy School Pre-k - 1 group, Storybooks for Beautiful Stuff, William Kuhlman.</p><p>• Roxane Scrima and Sharon Cuddy for Kennedy School Pre-k - 1 group, Storybooks for Beautiful Stuff, Sponsored by East Cambridge Savings Bank.</p><p>• Katelyn Dickson, Kennedy School (3-8 Upper Life Skills, Math & Science), Math Manipulatives, Sponsored by Lali & Jay Haines.</p><p>• Kelley Dickson, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (5 & 7 Resource Room), Math Manipulatives and Games, Sponsored by Jasper Lawson, PhD. & Associates.</p><p>• Alyssa Mackey, West Somerville Neighborhood School (7-8 Math), Math Classroom Materials, Sponsored by Tufts University.</p><p>• Andrea Palmer, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (K-8 Math Coach). Math Center Materials, Sponsored by Winter Hill Bank. </p><p>• Meredith Rothstein, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (3-5 Autism Classroom), Math Materials, Sponsored by Jasper Lawson, PhD. & Associates.</p><p>• Helen Schroeder, East Somerville Community School (K integrated SEI), Rekenrek, Math Materials, Sponsored by Philip Parsons.</p><p>• Meaghan Tubridy, Argenziano School (4th - 6th Special Education Resource Room), Math Intervention Materials, Sponsored by Mr & Mrs Donald F. McGoldrick. </p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty-two years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded $137,673 in teacher grants supporting three hundred fifty teachers’ projects in the city of Somerville along with emergency grants to East Somerville teachers after the devastating school fire.</p><p><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In early April, the fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships. Over twenty-one years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded a total of $505,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to one hundred nine students. Links to the scholarship application form is available at <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org">www.somervillemathematicsfund.org</a> For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica Voolich (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com).</p><p><br /></p><p>The link to this post is: <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html</a></p><p><br /></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-26290620377224508142021-11-17T08:24:00.001-05:002021-11-17T08:26:58.180-05:00Time for Teachers to Apply for Somerville Math Fund Grants! <p>Every year the Somerville Mathematics Fund offers teacher grants for K-12 teachers in Somerville who have interesting and exciting ideas to support math learning and enrichment for their students. The grant is open to teachers in all of the schools in Somerville, both public and parochial. <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">The grant application</a> is on the <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">Somerville Mathematics Fund website</a> and is due by January 7, 2022.</p>The maximum amount of any grant is $500 per year. Previous winners are welcome to apply again as long as they have completed their report on the previous grant. You can read about some previous year’s grant winners on <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2020/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html">the Somerville Math Fund blog</a> or by requesting a copy of this year’s annual newsletter which will be mailed in late November.<div><br />The Somerville Mathematics Fund, was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty years, the math fund has awarded $133,418 in teacher grants in the city of Somerville. You might want to listen to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rayp2ujjLA">TEDxSomerville talk</a> on the work of the Somerville Math Fund to learn about the various things the math fund is doing.<br /><br />In early April, the Somerville Math Fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships.<br /><br />The teacher grant application is available on<br /><a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html</a>.<br /><br />For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com)<div><br /></div><div>The link to blog post is<a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/11/time-for-teachers-to-apply-for.html"> https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/11/time-for-teachers-to-apply-for.html</a></div></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-40095791123135475512021-11-09T19:28:00.007-05:002021-11-09T19:30:33.822-05:00Game Jam Winners and Supporters!<p> by Erica Dakin Voolich</p><p>Previous years in October I’d be telling you about teams each of three students arriving at the gym at Tufts University for an engineering challenge on a Sunday afternoon. Well, guess what happened twice with Scrapheap during the pandemic? No such event was possible again in 2021. Tufts reopened for their students in this fall, but not for outside groups of kids under the age of 18.</p><p>Last year the Somerville Math Fund’s Board would not be deterred, they decided they would hold a Game Jam instead in December, with students each working in teams of three each from their own home. No Scrapheap again this year? No problem! Time for Game Jam #2.</p><p>This time teams could get together in their own homes, if they wanted, or work apart. This time it was held in October and November.</p><p>Five teams signed up for the Somerville Math Fund Game Jam #2. They got “their marching orders” in a zoom meeting on Tuesday night and then on Wednesday afternoon picked they each up their supplies in a pizza box at the high school from Mr. Morgan. Students had from Tuesday night at 6:30 PM until Friday the next week at midnight to work on and upload their games. </p><p>They needed to design a board or card game that could be played by 3 or more players, assuming each the players could possibly be at different locations or at the same place. The theme of the game was Time — any interpretation of that theme or spelling was OK. They needed to explain in their notes the connection to math in their games.</p><p>All the teams were creating at home, not together in person in the Tufts U gym — not like the pre-COVID days of Scrapheap Showdown, with a large pile of junk, our scrapheap in the middle of a Tufts U gym floor. Each player was given a pizza box full of papers with different board designs, our contest rules, many different sided dice, playing cards and some random unrelated items that they needed to figure out how to use at least one of them in the game. </p><p>These were used in interesting ways. In one game while racing against a timer the number of cards you choose determines the number of dice rolled in your turn. In another game, you and Amelia Earhart are trying to escape from the Bermuda Triangle. In game based on a roll of a die, you might be traveling by car, plane or boat using a glider or elastic man. And in another you will be auctioning off pieces of land The Board was impressed by the creativity of the games the students came up with. Lots of detail and thought went in to the rules and design. Creative choice of how to use the required theme of “time.” </p><p>After the games were submitted and uploaded to the Somerville Math Fund Classroom, the Board members needed to play the games and the teams of contestants were each given the other games to play and evaluate with the same rubric the Board was using. The rubric was on a scale of 16 (up to 4 points in each of 4 categories) and each game was judged by students as well as Board members and the final score was the average of the students’ scores with the average of the Board members’ scores.</p><p>The first place team was “Marci” (Marcus Odilon, Sam Turin) with their game “Go for Another,” 12.1666… points. Second place was “Shameless Dust Particle” (Atticus Borggaard), with his game “Thyme Garden,” 12.05 points. Third place was “Don’t be Trashy” (Rio Hunter Black, Marie Isra Khan, Marie Lessard-Brandt) with their game “Escaping Hartbreak,” 11.4333… points. Forth place was “Bored Gamers” (Samuel Diener, Nikhilesh Rattan, Caden Yarberry) with their game “Jet Lag,” 11.0333… points. The difference between first and 4th place was 1.1333… points — this was a really close event! Good job all around.</p><p>The teams chose their prizes in the order they finished. The prizes donated were three sets of 2 tickets to the RedSox from Sam Voolich for a game in April 2022, two $50 Target gift cards from Jay and Jasper, and four RedBones $50 gift cards from RedBones BBQ.</p><p>Designers and refiners of the challenge were members of the Somerville Math Fund Board: Sanford Bogage, Chase Duclos-Orsello, Adam Foster, Monica Fernandes, Richard Graf, Jay Landers, Erica Voolich, Susan Weiss with design suggestions and distribution help from Michael Morgan and Patricia Murphy-Sheehy (Head of Math Department) at Somerville High. The math teachers at Somerville High School, recruited student teams. </p><p>Thanks to our sponsors, this activity was both a fund raiser for scholarships, provided prizes for the students and allowed the students to participate without paying any registration fee. This year we offered different levels of sponsorship for the event. Thanks to all of our wonderful donors whose donations will make at least one scholarship available next spring and two teacher grants in January.</p><p>Gold Level (one year of college scholarship each): Commercial Cleaning Co./Bickoff Family, East Cambridge Savings Bank, Julie Schneider, Tufts University and Winter Hill Ban.</p><p>Silver Level (one teacher grant each): Jasper J. Lawson, PhD. and Associates and Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. McGoldrick</p><p>Bronze Level (supporting Somerville Math Fund work): Midé Technology Corporation, RedBones BBQ, J.J. Sullivan Plumbing & Heating Co. Inc. and one anonymous donor.</p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville. On January 7th, we will be looking for teacher grant applications; and in April, we will be looking for scholarship applications. For more information or to volunteer or to make a donation, call 617-666-0666, e-mail mathfund@gmail.com, or go to www.somervillemathematicsfund.org.</p><p>The link to this page is: <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/11/game-jam-winners-and-supporters.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/11/game-jam-winners-and-supporters.html</a></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-57087696728409378332021-09-23T10:50:00.001-04:002021-09-24T11:53:54.922-04:002nd Annual Game Jam, time to get teams together!<p> The Somerville Mathematics Fund presents</p><p>our 2nd Virtual Game Jam!</p><p>Due to the pandemic, we’ve created a virtual challenge in</p><p>lieu of our annual Scrapheap Showdown event.</p><p>Compete in teams of three on a different kind of</p><p>challenge, one where you design a game that will</p><p>be played and judged in part by the other teams.</p><p>Winners will receive exciting prizes!</p><p>● Create your game October 19th to 29th.</p><p>● Play and rate other entries November 1st to 5th.</p><p>● Winner announced November 7th</p><p>Register individually or as a team by October 13th</p><p>visit:</p><p><a href="https://forms.gle/Y2agwREQ56Cb1MgV6">https://forms.gle/Y2agwREQ56Cb1MgV6</a></p><p><br /></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-51349969364360308442021-06-18T14:23:00.015-04:002023-03-19T14:00:45.114-04:00Outstanding Students win Somerville Math Fund Scholarships<p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund is pleased to announce the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2021. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals and a few organizations, this year we were able to award a record 10 scholarships, totaling $60,000 over four years.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lMr90aHIJcyz6gGOB3mUhiD5Ic4XDkOD7im4RKg-FqtOmlLaMNTEdcChGlCbk-b8Xdp5-vE1_zZ-3O16sl_skLSHH_yP_ZDSDj-I93e4eGoaU745WkXBJZ3aQMdPgUNIWSKvy5uKfDE/s1200/2021Winners.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="1200" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lMr90aHIJcyz6gGOB3mUhiD5Ic4XDkOD7im4RKg-FqtOmlLaMNTEdcChGlCbk-b8Xdp5-vE1_zZ-3O16sl_skLSHH_yP_ZDSDj-I93e4eGoaU745WkXBJZ3aQMdPgUNIWSKvy5uKfDE/w417-h153/2021Winners.jpg" width="417" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> Somerville Math Fund Scholarship Winners:</span></span></span><div>Top (left to right): Samiyra Afife, Henry Ayanna, Owen Chiu, AJ Feldman, </div><div>Brayden Goldstein-Gelb; </div><div>Bottom (left to right) Nasreen Kaur, Alexandra Marston, Justin Millette, Sophia Sim, and Kevin Wen</div><div><p>Due to COVID-19, we were unable to award the scholarships at an awards night for a second year. The school notified the students they had won without telling them which scholarship, so they didn’t know the President of the Somerville Math Fund or the donor of their scholarship would be calling each of them to tell them of their award and that a letter was in the mail.</p><p>The winners are attending a variety of schools next fall. Samiyra Afife and Brandon Goldstein-Gelb will attend Brown U; Henry Ayanna, Harvard U; Owen Chiu, Northeastern U; A J Feldman, Colby College; Nasreen Kaur, Boston U; Alexandra Marston, UMass Boston; Justin Millette, Tufts; Sophia Sim, UMass Lowell; and Kevin Wen, MIT.</p><p>Their annual scholarships of $1500 are renewable for up to a total of four years as long as they maintain a B average and take mathematics or courses which use mathematics. </p><p>There were four memorial scholarships this year: Dr. Alice T Schafer Scholarship, Lt. Catherine M. Landers, S. Ramanujan, and Michael Voolich.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6gXmurodOiRXgR4h7IbJJTm0evYmxaV5YtmkzptQqN0LneaTEQzmFGxXfYCsm6oVzjHvDZf1tsumCF89ui7dmqmNqPX7yQshafAYxac9Tr0Dr7CCDeHL4-ghs3hyphenhyphenlq4TLBYIPLmKn8yc/s2048/KAUR+Nasreen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6gXmurodOiRXgR4h7IbJJTm0evYmxaV5YtmkzptQqN0LneaTEQzmFGxXfYCsm6oVzjHvDZf1tsumCF89ui7dmqmNqPX7yQshafAYxac9Tr0Dr7CCDeHL4-ghs3hyphenhyphenlq4TLBYIPLmKn8yc/s320/KAUR+Nasreen.jpg" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span>Nasreen Kaur, Dr. Alice T Schafer Scholarship winner<br /><p>One of the scholarships was given in the memory of an outstanding woman mathematician, Dr. Alice T Schafer. Nasreen Kaur was awarded the Alice T Schafer Memorial Scholarship, she is planning on majoring computer engineering at Boston University.</p><p>Dr. Schafer (1915 - 2009) was orphaned as an infant and raised by two aunts. When she went to college at the University of Richmond of Virginia, women students weren’t allowed in the library and she was discouraged from majoring in mathematics. She won prizes, earned a PhD, taught at colleges (including Wellesley) and among the things she is known for is helping start the Association for Women in Mathematics (1971). </p><p>Less known about Dr. Schafer was her role helping to start the Somerville Mathematics Fund in 2000 -- attending all of the planning meetings and contributing to their work as long as she was able. She is remembered for her passion and work to insure mathematical opportunities for women. Since Dr. Schafer was committed to the education and supporting women in mathematics, Nasreen’s majoring in computer science is a wonderful way to honor Dr. Alice Schafer's memory.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OvlYEQWtQGE8MKpfXqMbjrNw2R9fEJ7lKqda7_fPb9Xe5G-Hl9woIlvn0GOZr1IFY7CRwLCPwnN4_uEBgLVxFT8FyE2ogCi6rITxW09rhZGA57ulBgXRnRR6py3m-lcJXkxPpB2wTVw/s1250/AFIFE+Samiyra+-+2021.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OvlYEQWtQGE8MKpfXqMbjrNw2R9fEJ7lKqda7_fPb9Xe5G-Hl9woIlvn0GOZr1IFY7CRwLCPwnN4_uEBgLVxFT8FyE2ogCi6rITxW09rhZGA57ulBgXRnRR6py3m-lcJXkxPpB2wTVw/s320/AFIFE+Samiyra+-+2021.jpeg" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span><span><span>Samiyra Afife, Lt. Catherine M Landers Scholarship winner</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><p>The Lt. Catherine M. Landers Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Samiyra Afife. Samiyra has in interest in health and human biology. When Lt. Landers (1920 - 2012) wanted to go to nursing school (graduating in 1942), her grandmother opened a cedar chest were she had been saving dollar bills to help pay for her granddaughter’s education. Lt Landers won a Bronze Star for her service during WW2, where she ran a field hospital outside Paris; she was about to be shipped to the far East when WW2 ended and so she boarded a transport ship for the USA instead. Jay Landers and Jasper Lawson donated a scholarship in her memory, honoring her commitment to education. Samiyra's interest in health is a wonderful way to honor Lt. Landers' commitment to education.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDHbi6ab_sLkNE-q4qjZcsB1YueyzR2NqUGpYDTEmBBhef1UaLywZ82NgpEfO8jpo-MQ7lr_JsumOv648X_pyMenuCFaLLtxTNWkgnaHOWiNGH_kE_R4KgEaNoofbvF-aMSZOOylUWf0/s2048/WEN+Kevin.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1841" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDHbi6ab_sLkNE-q4qjZcsB1YueyzR2NqUGpYDTEmBBhef1UaLywZ82NgpEfO8jpo-MQ7lr_JsumOv648X_pyMenuCFaLLtxTNWkgnaHOWiNGH_kE_R4KgEaNoofbvF-aMSZOOylUWf0/s320/WEN+Kevin.jpeg" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span>Kevin Wen, S. Ramanujan Scholarship winner</span></span></span></span><br /><p>Our newest named scholarship is in memory of S. Ramanujan, it is a gift from the Jha Family and is awarded to Kevin Wen who is planning on attending MIT. Kevin wants a career in therapeutics where he can create drugs and medical therapies to help people. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) was a mostly self-taught brilliant Indian mathematician who sadly died young. He discovered his love of mathematics while in high school when he found a book that listed 4000 mathematical theorems without information on they were discovered or developed. So he continued his math work, often on a slate, only recording his concluding theorem on paper when finished, without the details of how he came to the conclusion. With his humble beginnings and no formal mathematical training, the story of his life and how he finally connected with the well-known mathematicians of his day is detailed the book and movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity. That book inspired the Jha family who gave your scholarship in his honor. Ramanujan’s notebooks and papers have included both previously discovered and new mathematical theorems many in number theory. These notebooks have continued to provide mathematicians with material to study and try to figure out how Ramanujan discovered these theorems and to see if they were provable. <a href="https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/somerville-journal/2021/02/17/somerville-student-researches-impacts-plastic-pollution/6779620002/">Kevin did original research on impact of plastic pollution</a>. His original work is a way to honor S. Ramanujan </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiooPiR68OnnzHpS1sYpgFMisoOQuW0f6r_YSG7Pb1nAgj5HdOtcXL9KSrce9s9QD4aS2xFYYVE4NCmDndhSfVsDKxlXDU48FbP7-ept9_uneV6g8I9ZyyHIpWflJG-D9Y7qG56zHc5O80/s2048/AYANNA+Henry.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiooPiR68OnnzHpS1sYpgFMisoOQuW0f6r_YSG7Pb1nAgj5HdOtcXL9KSrce9s9QD4aS2xFYYVE4NCmDndhSfVsDKxlXDU48FbP7-ept9_uneV6g8I9ZyyHIpWflJG-D9Y7qG56zHc5O80/s320/AYANNA+Henry.jpg" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> </span></span></span>Henry Ayanna, who is appropriately attired for someone with </div><div><span> <span> <span> </span></span></span>a love of music, Michael Voolich scholarship winner</div><div><p>The Michael Voolich Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Henry Ayanna who is interested in both science and music at Harvard U. Michael Voolich (1943 - 2019) was a person who was interested in how everything worked, if Renaissance man was a job offering, Michael would have applied. He learned by asking questions and then he loved telling everyone what he had learned and how seemingly disparate things were related. He had a career than included teaching many different subjects in local schools, none of which was math. But, he married a math teacher. So, when the Somerville Math Fund was being discussed and organized in his living room, of course he joined the founding board. </p><p>He liked to do things for people and of course for the math fund. His telephone calls and trips to Table Talk Pie Company each year for city-wide Pi Night celebration were a highlight each year. He especially loved helping find things for others to donate for the Scrapheap Showdown each year and his marvelous multiple clamps will still be a necessary part of future Scrapheap challenges to come. </p><p>Michael loved to be able to give and help others in the local community along with his extended family here and abroad. This scholarship was funded by the many people who donated in his memory to the Somerville Math Fund. Henry’s taking the high level science classes while also performing his violin at an award winning level would clearly lead to many interesting discussions if Michael were still alive — he would want to know all about how they are related and work.</p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. It May 2011, it was recognized as the outstanding Dollars for Scholars Chapter in New England. Since it's founding in 2000, it has awarded $505,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to ninety-nine outstanding Somerville students. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The link for this post is <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/06/outstanding-students-win-somerville.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/06/outstanding-students-win-somerville.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-92053710005417395712021-02-04T10:18:00.001-05:002021-02-04T10:19:15.037-05:00Have a Great Idea on How to Teach Math? These Teachers Do!<p>by Erica Voolich</p><p> <span> </span>Many teachers have great ideas on how to make their classrooms a better place for their students to learn math. The teachers’ ideas frequently outrun the budget schools have for supplies and their own ability to subsidize their classroom. The Somerville Mathematics Fund tries to fill this need through the generosity of their donors. </p><p><span> </span>This year has been an unusual year. The Somerville Public School buildings have been closed since last March. Teachers who won Somerville Math Fund grants last year were just receiving or ordering their materials when everything changed because of the pandemic. We allowed the teachers to adjust their orders from classroom materials to materials for home remote learning. We still don’t have an actual date for the Somerville students and teachers to be physically back in their classrooms. It was hard year for teachers to plan, as a result we had a large drop off of applications. </p><p><span> T</span>his year we have five teacher winners, four have hopes of returning to the actual classroom sometime in the near future. Each teacher’s grant has a generous sponsor who is making their teacher’s work easier. Our congratulations to each of the winners and our thanks to each of the sponsors for their generous support:</p><p>• Kelly Dickson, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (6th - 8th, Autism Teacher), Math Games & Manipulatives, sponsored by Winter Hill Bank</p><p>• Meredith Rothstein, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (5th - 8th, Autism Teacher), Manipulatives to develop Basic Skills sponsored by Lali and Jay Haines.</p><p>• Roxane Scrima, John F Kennedy School, (K), Math Manipulatives for home packets for each family, sponsored by East Cambridge Savings Bank.</p><p>• Amanda Singleton, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (4th-5th, Autism Teacher), Individualized learning math manipulatives, sponsored by Tufts University.</p><p>• Meaghan Tubridy, Albert Argenziano School, (3rd - 4th, Special Education), Individualized packets math materials for home and school sponsored by William Kuhlman.</p><div><div><span> </span>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty-one years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded $133,418 in teacher grants supporting three hundred forty teachers’ projects in the city of Somerville along with emergency grants to East Somerville teachers after the devastating school fire.</div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>In early April, the fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships. Over twenty-one years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded a total of $445,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to ninety-nine students. Links to the scholarship application form is available at www.somervillemathematicsfund.org </div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica Voolich (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com).</div></div><div><br /></div><div>The link to this page <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html</a></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-51295125002208004672021-01-03T15:11:00.003-05:002021-01-03T15:12:25.663-05:00Scrapheap Move Over, here comes Game Jam!<p> by Erica Dakin Voolich</p><p>Previous years in October I’d be telling you about teams each of three students arriving at the gym at Tufts University for an engineering challenge on a Sunday afternoon. Well, guess what happened with Scrapheap in the pandemic? No such event was possible. But, the Somerville Math Fund’s Board would not be deterred, they decided they would hold a Game Jam instead in December, with students each working in teams of three each from their own home.</p><p>Seven teams signed up for the Somerville Math Fund Game Jam. They got “their marching orders” in a zoom meeting on Tuesday night and then on Wednesday afternoon picked up their supplies in a pizza box at the high school. </p><p>Students had from Tuesday night at 6:30 PM until Sunday at 6:30 PM to work on and upload their games. They needed to design a board or card game that could be played by 3 or more players, assuming each the players could possibly at different locations. The theme of the game was Space — any interpretation of that theme was OK. All the teams of three were creating at home, not together in person — not like the pre-COVID days of Scrapheap Showdown, with a large pile of junk, our scrapheap in the middle of a Tufts U gym floor. Each player was given a pizza box full of papers with different board designs, rules, many different sided dice, playing cards and some random unrelated items that they needed to figure out how to use at least one of them in the game. These were used in interesting ways. In one game the stress ball became the sun on the game board of the planets, in another there was an animal building challenge with another random object as the board game progressed. </p><p>The Board was impressed by the creativity of the games the students came up with. Lots of detail and thought went in to the rules and design. Creative choice of how to use the required theme of “space.” Some planetary or astroid travel or building for survival or defense, some different non-Euclidean geometric spaces, even some aliens to escape. Some games were for younger students some assumed high school math.</p><p>After the games were submitted and uploaded to the Somerville Math Fund Classroom, the Board members needed to play the games and the teams of contestants were each given two games to play and evaluate with the same rubric the Board was using. The rubric was on a scale of 16 (up to 4 points in each of 4 categories) and each game was judged by students as well as Board members and the final score was the average of the students’ scores with the average of the Board members’ scores.</p><p>The first place team was “No Name Given” (Marie Lessard-Brandt, Isra Khan, Rio Hunter Black) with their game “Belt Hop,” 13.2 points. The second place team was “Senioritis” (Justin Millette, Henry Ayanna, Owen Chiu) with their game “Cosmic Civilization,” 13 points.</p><p>The third place team was “Buddies” ( Brayden Goldstein-Gelb, AJ Feldman, Kevin Wen), with their game “Hold Your Horses,” 12.3 points. The fourth place team was “We Don’t Know” (Nikhilesh Rattan, Samuel Diener, Chakshu Patel), with their game of “The Final Space Race,” 11.8 points.</p><p>The teams chose their prizes in the order they finished. The prizes donated were three passes donated by the New England Aquarium good through 2021, three $100 Target gift card, three $25 Apple gift cards and three $25 Amazon gift cards.</p><p>Designers and refiners of the challenge were members of the Somerville Math Fund Board: Sanford Bogage, Chase Duclos-Orsello, Adam Foster, Monica Fernandes, Richard Graf, Jay Landers, Kelly O’Connell, Erica Voolich, Susan Weiss with design suggestions and distribution help from Patricia Murphy-Sheehy at Somerville High, Head of Math Department. The math teachers at Somerville High School, recruited student teams. </p><p>Thanks to our sponsors, this activity was both a fund raiser for scholarships, provided prizes for the students and allowed the students to participate without paying any registration fee. Our wonderful sponsors were Commercial Cleaning Co/Bickoff Family, Jasper J. Lawson, PhD. and Associates, Midé Technology Corporation, Tufts University, Winter Hill Bank, and two anonymous donors.</p><p>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville. On January 7th, we will be looking for teacher grant applications; and in April, we will be looking for scholarship applications. For more information or to volunteer or to make a donation, call 617-666-0666, e-mail mathfund@gmail.com, or go to www.somervillemathematicsfund.org.</p><div>The link to this page is <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/01/scrapheap-move-over-here-comes-game-jam.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2021/01/scrapheap-move-over-here-comes-game-jam.html</a></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-84785550886947622882020-11-16T14:17:00.005-05:002020-11-16T21:07:49.074-05:00Time to Apply for Math Teaching Grants<p>Every year the Somerville Mathematics Fund offers teacher grants for K-12 teachers in Somerville who have interesting and exciting ideas to support math learning and enrichment for their students. The grant is open to teachers in all of the schools in Somerville, both public and parochial. <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">The grant application</a> is on the <a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">Somerville Mathematics Fund website</a> and is due by January 7, 2021.</p>The maximum amount of any grant is $500 per year. Previous winners are welcome to apply again as long as they have completed their report on the previous grant. You can read about last year’s grant winners on <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2020/02/have-great-idea-on-how-to-teach-math.html">the Somerville Math Fund blog</a> or by requesting a copy of this year’s annual newsletter which will be mailed in early December.<br /><br />The Somerville Mathematics Fund, was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty years, the math fund has awarded $131,215 in teacher grants in the city of Somerville. You might want to listen to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rayp2ujjLA">TEDxSomerville talk</a> on the work of the Somerville Math Fund to learn about the various things the math fund is doing.<br /><br />In early April, the Somerville Math Fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships.<br /><br />The teacher grant application is available on<br /><a href="http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html">http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org/teachergrant.html</a>.<br /><br />For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com)<div><br /></div><div>The link to blog post is <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2020/11/time-to-apply-for-math-teaching-grants.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2020/11/time-to-apply-for-math-teaching-grants.html</a></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-32939082584684653922020-11-13T15:38:00.001-05:002020-11-16T21:05:10.229-05:00Scrapheap Showdown Morphs into a Game Jam for Somerville Kids<p> <b>The Somerville Mathematics Fund</b></p><p><b>Scrapheap Showdown has gone virtual!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>We are hosting a game jam!</b></p><p><b>We've created a new, virtual challenge for our</b></p><p><b>annual Scrapheap Showdown event.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Compete in teams of three on a different kind of</b></p><p><b>challenge, one where you design a game that will</b></p><p><b>be played and judge in part by the other teams.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Open to residents of Somerville who have not graduated from high school</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>VIRTUAL EVENT DATE: Make your game between December 8-13th, 2020</b></p><p><b>Winner announce by December 20</b></p><p><b>Register individually or as a team by December 2nd</b></p><p><b>scan </b></p><p><b>or go to </b><img height="145" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/jUKGfizD-KLQDUqsXrlW0OwLAo37IsTXltDB_H4L0yLBCFPicPlEq3CxQKanjqr2U1h85BhUqtkjk8Cf37dKGSynwnjh_W8O7sylFjGaCYiisHpWJBFqg7MyFLEMlVYjABBcPvQz" style="color: blue; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="145" /><span face="Oswald, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.997499465942383pt; text-align: right; text-decoration: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://forms.gle/Y2agwREQ56Cb1MgV6">https://forms.gle/Y2agwREQ56Cb1MgV6</a></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><p><b><br /></b></p>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-29534116054219584262020-06-23T14:25:00.003-04:002020-06-23T14:34:26.589-04:00Outstanding Students win Somerville Math Fund ScholarshipsThe Somerville Mathematics Fund is pleased to announce the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2020. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals and a few organizations, this year we were able to award a record 8 scholarships, totaling $48,000 over four years.<br />
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The winners were in the top row: Christiana Brand, Luca Duclos-Orsello, Harmanpreet Kaur, and Timothy Labounko. <br />
Bottom Row: Ziye OuYang, Owen Sheehy, Harmeet Singh and Jaskaran Singh<br />
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Due to COVID-19, we were unable to award the scholarships at an awards night. The school notified the students they had won without telling them which scholarship, so they didn’t know the President of the Somerville Math Fund would be calling each of them to tell them of their award and that a letter was in the mail.<br />
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The winners are attening a variety of schools next fall. Christina Brand, Ziye OuYang, and Owen Sheehy will attend UMass Amherst; Luca Duclos-Orsell, Brown; Harmanpreet Kaur, MIT; Timothy Labounko, University of Southern California; Harmeet Singh, UMass Boston; and Jaskaran Singh, UMass Lowell.<br />
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Their annual scholarships of $1500 are renewable for up to a total of four years as long as they maintain a B average and take mathematics or courses which use mathematics. <br />
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There were three memorial scholarships this year: Dr. Alice T Schafer Scholarship, Lt. Catherine M. Landers, and Michael Voolich.<br />
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One of the scholarships was given in the memory of an outstanding woman mathematician, Dr. Alice T Schafer. Harmanpreet Kaur was awarded the Alice T Schafer Memorial Scholarship. Harmanpreet is planning on majoring computer engineering at MIT, the school where Dr Schafer’s husband taught mathematics for many years when she was teaching mathematiacs at Wellesley College.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr Alice Schafer Scholarship winner Harmanpreet Kaur</td></tr>
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Dr. Schafer (1915 - 2009) was orphaned as an infant and raised by two aunts. When she went to college at the University of Richmond of Virginia, women students weren’t allowed in the library and she was discouraged from majoring in mathematics. She won prizes, earned a PhD, taught at colleges (including Wellesley) and among the things she is known for is helping start the Association for Women in Mathematics (1971). <br />
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Less known about Dr. Schafer was her role helping to start the Somerville Mathematics Fund in 2000 -- attending all of the planning meetings and contributing to their work as long as she was able. She is remembered for her passion and work to insure mathematical opportunities for women. Since Dr. Schafer was committed to the education and supporting women in mathematics, Harmanpreet’s majoring in computer science is a wonderful way to honor Dr. Alice Schafer's memory.<br />
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The Lt. Catherine M. Landers Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Jaskaran Singh. Jaskaran has in interest in statistics and is planning on majoring in business. When Lt. Landers (1920 - 2012) wanted to go to nursing school (graduating in 1942), her grandmother opened a cedar chest were she had been saving dollar bills to help pay for her granddaughter’s education. Lt Landers won a Bronze Star for her service during WW2, where she ran a field hospital outside Paris; she was about to be shipped to the far East when WW2 ended and so she boarded a transport ship for the USA instead. Jay Landers and Jasper Lawson donated a scholarship in her memory, honoring her commitment to education. Jaskaran's interest business is a wonderful way to honor Lt. Landers' commitment to education.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lt Catherine Landers Scholarship winner Jaskaran Singh</td></tr>
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Our newest named scholarship is in the memory of Michael Voolich. This year it was awarded to Timothy Labounko who is planning on majoring in civil engineering at University of Southern California. Michael Voolich (1943 - 2019) was a person who was interested in how everything worked, if Renaissance man was a job offering, Michael would have applied. He learned by asking questions and then he loved telling everyone what he had learned and how seemingly disparate things were related. He had a career than included teaching many different subjects in local schools, none of which was math. But, he married a math teacher. So, when the Somerville Math Fund was being discussed and organized in his living room, of course he joined the founding board. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Voolich Scholarship winner Tim Labounko</td></tr>
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He liked to do things for people and of course for the math fund. His telephone calls and trips to Table Talk Pie Company each year for city-wide Pi Night celebration were a highlight each year. He especially loved helping find things for others to donate for the Scrapheap Showdown each year and his marvelous multiple clamps will still be a necessary part of future Scrapheap challenges to come. <br />
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Michael loved to be able to give and help others in the local community along with his extended family here and abroad. This scholarship was funded by the many people who donated in his memory to the Somerville Math Fund. Timothy’s fascination with transportation engineering and planning would clearly lead to many interesting discussions if Michael were still alive — another student who wants to know how it works!<br />
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The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. It May 2011, it was recognized as the outstanding Dollars for Scholars Chapter in New England. Since it's founding in 2000, it has awarded $445,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to ninety-nine outstanding Somerville students. Next fall, The Somerville Mathematics Fund will be seeking applications from teachers who teach in the city of Somerville who would like funding for classroom mathematics activities. In October, the Math Fund will also be seeking high school students to compete in the annual Scrapheap Showdown. For more information, to volunteer, or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica Voolich (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com) or go to www.somervillemathematicsfund.org.<br />
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The link to this post: <a href="https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2020/06/outstanding-students-win-somerville.html">https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2020/06/outstanding-students-win-somerville.html</a><br />
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Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-6502800171142058362020-02-04T11:30:00.001-05:002020-02-04T11:30:27.848-05:00Have a Great Idea on How to Teach Math? These Teachers Do!Many teachers have great ideas on how to make their classrooms a better place for their students to learn math. The teachers’ ideas frequently outrun the budget schools have for supplies and their own ability to subsidize their classroom. The Somerville Mathematics Fund tries to fill this need through the generosity of their donors. Jay and Jasper and the Apple Tree Fund each sponsored multiple grants. Lali and Jay Haines, William Kuhlman, Tufts University, Winter Hill Bank and Rebecca Wood-Spagnoli each sponsored a teacher's grant. The rest of the grants were funded thanks to the combined generosity of everyone who contributed to the Math Fund’s annual fundraiser. The following teachers won grants to encourage and support mathematics achievement in the classrooms of Somerville.<br />
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These Teacher Grants were funded by the many generous donors who together contributed enough in our annual fundraiser to support all of them. There is power in donations of many sizes coming together to support the larger whole.<br />
• Reid Cargan, East Somerville Community School (3rd SEI), Math Dictionaries,<br />
• Katherine Ceron, Healey School (1st, SEI), Math Manipulatives<br />
• Johanna Cooney, Brown School (1st), MakerSpace Bins<br />
• Stephanie Rizzo, Argenziano School (4th), Math Manipulatives<br />
• Angela Rodriguez, Argenziano School (3rd SEI), Math Materials<br />
• Meredith Rothstein, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (4th - 6th, Autism Teacher), Manipulatives to develop Basic Skills<br />
• Kelsey Schroder, Healey School (2nd), Math Storybooks and Materials<br />
• Helen Schroeder, East Somerville Community School (K, SEI), Wooden Blocks & Math Materials<br />
• Katie Starbuck, Healey School & East Somerville Community School (Math Coach), Math Materials for Professional Development and Classrooms<br />
• Lauren Woldemariam, Healey School (1st), Math Manipulatives<br />
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The Math Fund wants to thank Jay and Jasper for generously underwriting the following teacher grants:<br />
• Kelly Dickson, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (6th - 8th Autism Special Education), <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ChooseItMaker & TouchMath<br />
• Susanne Douglas, Healey School (1st), Math Manipulatives<br />
• Diana Garity, Argenziano School (2nd SEI Newcomers), iknowit.com and Montessori Materials<br />
• Talia Greenberg, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (5th & 6th SEI Math teacher), Volume and Fractions Manipulatives<br />
• April Luna, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (6th, Math & Science), Calculators & Base 10 Materials<br />
• Andrea Palmer, Winter Hill Community Innovation School (K-8, Math Coach), Math Materials<br />
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The Math Fund wants to thank the Apple Tree Fund for generously underwriting the following teacher grants:<br />
• Sally Brith, Next Wave/Full Circle Math Team (teacher, counselor), Project Based Learning<br />
• Lori Brown, Healey School (1st & 2nd, Special Ed), Math Materials<br />
• Matthew Burch, Argenziano School, (Math Instructional Coach), Math Manipulatives and Games (k-4)<br />
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The Math Fund wants to thank each of the following for generously underwriting a teacher grant:<br />
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Lali and Jay Haines:<br />
• Lauren McGlashing & Julie Jones, Capuano Early Childhood Center (K), Movement and Math in the classroom and at family event<br />
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William Kuhlman:<br />
• Aileene Martinez, East Somerville Community School (for the 1st grade team), Math Morning/Afternoon Event<br />
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Tufts University:<br />
• Emma Mrozicki, East Somerville Community School (4th Unidos), Math Manipulatives<br />
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The Winter Hill Bank:<br />
• Caroline Martha Burkard, East Somerville Community School (6th Math teacher), Microphone & Math Games<br />
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Rebecca Wood-Spagnoli:<br />
• Jason Behrens (District Innovation Specialist) and Karen Leary (Geometry Teacher & Calculus Project School Year Coordinator) & Students (Nathalya Castillo Salmeron, Edrick Pacheo, Diana Posada) Calculus Student Run Math Fun Night for 3rd - 5th Students<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage achievement in mathematics in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. Over twenty years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded $131,215 in teacher grants supporting three hundred thirty-five teachers’ projects in the city of Somerville along with emergency grants to East Somerville teachers after the devastating school fire.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In early April, the fund will be seeking applications from students who reside in Somerville for college mathematics scholarships. Over twenty years, the Somerville Math Fund has awarded a total of $397,000 in four-year mathematics scholarships to ninety-one students. Links to the scholarship application form is available at www.somervillemathematicsfund.org For more information, to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact Erica Voolich (617-666-0666 or mathfund@gmail.com).Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392537642125261649.post-58842586971678681842019-10-28T14:08:00.002-04:002019-10-28T17:56:30.311-04:00Scrapheap Showdown 2019: Ship to Shore!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On October 27, 18 high school students on six teams gathered in “The Cage” in Cousens Gym at Tufts University to compete in the Somerville Mathematics Fund’s 15th annual Scrapheap Showdown. Along with the usual interesting “junk” in the center of the room when the students walked in, there were also piles of foam core and paper. The students were given their challenge: to design and build a crane on a base of MDF board. The teams worked intensely, designing, building, testing, reinforcing, and adjusting their cranes.<br />
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Time was called after 3 3/4 hours. Now was the time for the two competitions. The first challenge was a precision test to retrieve objects from the “ship” on the floor and place these to various places on the tables (different locations were worth different points).<br />
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They had 3 minutes for this first challenge. The second challenge was unloading bulk cargo: a strength and speed test. They had to upload various objects (weights, marbles, coins) and the total was weighed after 2 minutes. <br />
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They had to be careful to not overload their bucket and break the crane arm. The team that was able to raise the most, Euleroids, lifted a total of 16 pounds, 2 ounces.<br />
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Teams were ranked in each event, one thru six, with 1 getting 1 point, etc. So the winning team had the lowest final score.<br />
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The team with the lowest overall score, was <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/3ADvjYWDwCKaXQGb6">“Euleroids” (Charlie Nadeau, Iskandar Nazhar, Myles Rivera)</a>. <br />
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The second place team was the <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/dfAmx26svuW1fP7s6">“Crimson Quackateers” (Nora Chiu, Owen Chiu, Caden Yarberry).</a> <br />
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The third place team was <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/UnppCqTS3YnS5rdH8">"√-1 2^3 ∑ π " (i eight sum pi) (Laura Clervil, Harmanpreet Kaur, Nasreen Kaur)</a>.<br />
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The fourth place team was <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/sUyL56u6Y8koavQ26">"i i on the π π" (i’s on the pi’s) (Brian Jian Chan, Luca Duclos-Orsello, Timothy Labounko)</a>. <br />
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The other teams were <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ri4FsyFiyT9PiD1o7">"Generic Name" (Omar Benkhayat, Alexa English, Jadrianis Vega)</a><br />
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and <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/UYeTZVuc61iSgwyx6">"Don't Be Trash" (Rio Hunter Black, Isra Khan, Marie Lessard-Brandt)</a>.<br />
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The teams could choose their prize in the order they finished. The prizes donated were: three $100 Target gift cards (donated by Anne Button), three $100 amazon gift cards (donated by Jay & Jasper) four 2019 Red Sox tickets (donated by Sam Voolich), four $50 RedBones BBQ gift cards, one $50 gift card for FlatBread and Sacco Bowl and $60 cash. All competitors and volunteers went home with Scrapheap Showdown teeshirts donated by Gerald and Debra Bickoff of Commercial Cleaning Service. <br />
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This event was for both fundraising and an intellectual challenge--all funds raised go towards a Somerville Mathematics Fund scholarship for an outstanding Somerville mathematics student.<br />
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Designers & refiners of the challenge were: Sanford Bogage, Anne Button, Chase Duclos-Orsello, Zachary Faubion, Adam Foster, Monica Fernandes, Richard Graf, Jay Landers, Zbigniew Nitecki, Erica Voolich. <br />
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Stanhope Framers donated the foam core; Magnificent Muffin & Bagel donated egg crates and Patricia Murphy-Sheehy, with the math teachers at Somerville High School, recruited student teams. Amy Weiss designed the T-shirts and edited the poster advertising the event at the high school. <br />
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Sponsors of the event included Winter Hill Bank, RedBones BBQ, Commercial Cleaning Service, Jack Connolly of Wedgwood-Crane & Connolly, Mide Corporation, Rudy’s Restaurant, Jay & Jasper, Anne Button, anonymous, and our most wonderful host, Tufts University. <br />
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Suffolk University Catering provided the refreshments for the teams and volunteers. Various members of the Board worked on all aspects of organizing the event and worked to make it a success along with community volunteer Scott Carlson.<br />
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The Somerville Mathematics Fund was chartered in 2000 to celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville. In January, they will be looking for teacher grant applications; and in April, they will be looking for scholarship applications. For more information or to volunteer or to make a donation, call 617-666-0666, e-mail mathfund@gmail.com, or go to www.somervillemathematicsfund.org.<br />
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If these pictures aren't enough, <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/dbkstaPPbQnUJSCv6">here are some general pictures to enjoy</a>.<br />
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