2019 Term 4

Term 4 --- Week 1

8   : William   : 2011-JO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q1 - complete, Q2 - partial.

9   : Ralph     : 2011-JO-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q1 complete. Q2 partial.

10  : David     : 2011-JO-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q2 complete, Q3 complete.

11  : Tamiru    : 2011-SO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q1, Q2.

12  : Peter     : 2011-SO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q1, Q2, Q4.

CCSE: Zoltan   : Chocolate & CAT.
      (+Chenni+Adrian+Shane+David M.)

         Started with an ice-breaker, via a game called ‘chocolate’, 
         which encourages algorithmic thinking.
         This was followed by time working through problems from a 
         previous Australian Informatics Competition - AIC 2013 Seniors
         Questions 1,2.

Term 4 --- Week 2

8   : Chris     : 2011-JO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q3, Q4 completed.

9   : Ralph     : 2011-JO-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q2, Q3, Q4 complete.

10  : David     : 2011-JO-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q1, Q4.

11  : Tamiru    : 2011-SO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q3, Q4 completed.

12  : Peter     : 2011-SO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q5.

CCSE: Zoltan    : AIC 2013 Seniors  Questions 3,4,5.
      (+William+Paul+Josh)

Term 4 --- Week 3

8   : Zoltan    : Horrible game.
                  2011-JO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q5 completed.

9   : William   : 2011-JA-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q1 complete.

10  : Ralph     : 2011-JO-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q5 graphical proof.
                  2011-JA-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q1 complete.
                  Q2 almost finished, requires centroid cuts medians
                  in 2:1 ratio.

11  : David     : 2011-SO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q5 completed.
                  2011-SA-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q1 (part one).

12  : Yossi +   : Yossi gave a powerpoint presentation on Homology.
      Peter       2011-SO-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q3 & Q5.

CCSE: Tryon     : Problems based on Project Euler
                  See EP problem sheet for details.
      (+William+David M.)

Term 4 --- Week 4

8   : Zoltan    : Horrible game.
                  Detours through modular arithmetic, and terms in (a+b)^n
                  Two proofs that medians of a triangle trisect each other.

9   : Chris     : 2011-JA-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q3 complete.
                  Q5 started with hints.

10  : Ralph     : 2011-JA-Fall, Tournament of the Towns (Junior)
                  Q2 Discussed proof that centroid cuts medians in 2:1 ratio.
                  Q3 Started ... showed that sets of size 1,2,3,4,5 were impossible.

11  : David     : 2011-SA-Fall  Tournament of the Towns (Senior)
                  Q2 discussed but incomplete.
                  Q4a discussed but incomplete.

12  : Anand +   : Discussion about University mathematics courses
      Peter       and post uni careers.

CCSE: David +   : Cellular Automata. 
      Liam +      An interactive session celluar automata to gain an
      William     understanding of how complex systems can arise from
                  very simple rules. The class progressed from 1-dim
                  cellular automata through to the celebrated Conway's
                  Game of Life. The last 20 minutes were spent
                  exploring a corpus of exotic cellular automata in
                  the golly program.


Term 4 --- Week 5

8   : Peter     : 2011-JA-Fall
                  Q1 and Q2 completed. Q3 started.

9   : Liam      : 2011-JA-Fall 
                  Q4 completed. Started Q6
                  Horrible Game

10  : Zoltan    : 2011-JA-Fall 
                  Q2 gave completed proof.
                  Students presented Q4.
                  Started solving Q3.

11  : Chris     : 2011-SA-Fall
                  Q3.

12  : Ralph     : Homogeneous vs inhomogeneous polynomials.
                  Rational solutions vs integer solutions.
                  Gauss' thm vs Bezout's thm.
                  Chord method for finding rational points on quadrics.

CCSE: William + : Sorting algorithms (bubble sort, quick sort).
      Tryon +     Algorithms (termination, proofs, complexity).
      Kifan       Binary search.
                  Definition of complexity (Big-O notation).


Term 4 --- Week 6

8   : Peter     : 2011-JA-Fall
                  Q3 and Q4 completed. Q5 started.

9   : Ralph     : 2011-JA-Fall 
                  Q3 solution presented. Used it to discuss set theory notation :
                  empty set, set difference and set theory as a foundation for arithmetic.
                  Showed that a Moebius band parameterises all lines in the Cartesian plane.

10  : Zoltan    : 2011-JA-Fall 
                  Presented solution to Q3, Q5, Q6.

11  : Chris     : 2011-SA-Fall
                  Completed Q2 and Q5.

12  : William   : 2011-SA-Fall
                  Completed Q4.

CCSE: Heath +   : Encoding versus Encryption.
     (Tryon +     Basic python. ASCII.
      Tony +      Caesar cipher.
      Josh        Encrypting via Caesar Decrypting?
      Nicole)     Binary and Hexadecimal notation.
                  See the Interactive link  and the  code repository for details.