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**Celebrating Mathematicians Everywhere** **Happy Pi Day & Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!**

Goal: To complete research and then create a Facebook page on a famous Mathematician. xxxxxx Task One: Study a famous mathematician. Report on information about their lives, how they got interested in mathematics, and mathematics concepts they  developed/enjoyed. (A special thank-you to an unknown teacher from Sir John A. MacDonald High School in Hubley, NS.) xxxxx Task Two: Students then create a Voki (speaking avatar) to share interesting facts  about how their mathematician's theorem, discoveries or interests impacted us  yesterday and/or today.

**xxxx ** **Johannes Kepler didn't have any great or unusal beginnings but was smart enough to ** **influence later mathematicians like Isaac Newton and be relevant still today. Delaney D., B4B ** **xxx **  **The most interesting part of the assignment is learning about a mathematician who is ** **so underrated even though he has done so much to improve modern day math. Carter R., B3A ** xxxx xxx <span style="color: #ff3700; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**What I found most interesting was how Andrew Wiles first discovered his theorem when** <span style="color: #ff3700; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**he was 10. At age 10, I knew nothing about calculus and stuff, but he went and researched** <span style="color: #ff3700; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**it so he could learn more. He spent basically his whole life trying to prove this theorem.** <span style="color: #ff3700; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Angel K., B1A** xxx <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">xxx <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: baseline;">**What I found most interesting about Gottfried Leibniz is his invention of the early** <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: baseline;">**calculating machine.Without his idea of a calculator, math would be much more difficult** <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: baseline;">**to accomplish. Jessica G, B1A** xxx **<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">xxx ** <span style="color: #0087ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**If it wasn't for Kurt Godel, a lot of Albert Einstein's mathematics would not** <span style="color: #0087ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**exist. Steven C., B2B** xxx <span style="color: #5322aa; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**I found the fact that he could speak many languages the most interesting!** <span style="color: #5322aa; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Rachel S., B4B** <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">xxx
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Student Comments: **
 * <span style="color: #5c00ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: baseline;">What I found most interesting was that Thales is one of the earliest recorded philosphers and mathematicians. That makes him a very old person! Jeremy M., B3A **
 * <span style="color: #157979; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I found it interesting that a mathematician founded the Encyclopedia. Caitlin L., B3A **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Einstein declined the presidency of the state of Israel when it was offered to him in 1 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">952 by state leaders. Bryce B., B3A **
 * <span style="color: #aa3d22; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">It was interesting to learn Christiaan Huygens ****<span style="color: #aa3d22; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">was a very talented inventor,especially **
 * <span style="color: #aa3d22; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">with watches. Zion G., B4B **



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dr. Gracia Milo, Lead Math Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Guest: India, Geeta Dhingra  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Laura Howell, CRS,  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Technology Facilitator & Organizer  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">created March 2012