June 22, 1999
The second day of Math Explorations was focused primarily on graph theory. The students began with activities such as how a garbage man can cover his whole route without retracing his steps ever. The students also tried to see which capitol letters of the alphabet can be made without lifting the pencil and not going over the same line twice. In the second half of the day the students explored probability. To begin the students did several things with dice to see the distribution of the values they rolled. The students also used excel to see a larger sample pool and the distribution there. Finally, the students found the probability that a dart will land on a dart board if it randomly lands in a square circumvent to the square. They then found it for one quarter section of the square and it was the same.
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