Today Jon started class with something called game theory. This is a partner game and your partner has picked a number and there are two choices that the person has to choose from, Jon wrote the choices on the board. The first choice is to make a digit less by one. The second choice is to take away zero and all the digits to the right of the zero. The goal is to be the last person to go. Once everyone completed their game the class talked about whether or not there is a way to always win or to win the most. The class' conclusion was that if you always go second then you will always win. Then Renee came and presented her game. She gave the students each a sheet of paper and told them to write their name and a number on it. Once she took the papers up she said that she would give the person who guessed closest to half the average of all the numbers all the numbers. Then Renee drew a grid of dots on the board. She told the students that each person will have a chance to draw a line and then get a square on the board and put their initials in it. The students realized that there is a strategy to the game and that for this game it was to get yourself a square while preventing other people from getting squares. Next, Renee gave the students a website address to go to that would allow them to play a game in which the student and the computer were in jail for a crime and they could choose to confess the crime or not to. The number of years that you get in jail is based on your answer compared to your partner's. Next, Jon started talking to the students about paradox. The students gave him an example of a paradox and then they debated a few of the paradox. Then the students began to work with the Tortise and Hare Race website.

After break Jon talked to the students about how to move a queen in the game of chess.