2021 Term 1

Term 1 --- Week 1

8 : Zoltan : Played in/out of the Club (4n+1).

Played Chocolate.

What is a natural number? N, Z, Q.

Solved ToT 2001 Spring JO Q1.

Discussed how to write up a solution.

9 : Chris : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q1.

10 : Peter : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q2 started.

11 : Ralph : ToT 2001 Senior O-level, Q1 started.

12 : Tamiru : ToT 2001 Senior O-level, Q1, Q2.

Term 1 --- Week 2

8 : Zoltan : Horrible game - square and triangular numbers.

Two proofs that T_n = n(n+1)/2.

Discussion of shortest path for ToT 2001 Spring JO Q1.

What is a circle? An ellipse? Proved Thales Theorem.

9 : Chris : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q2.

10 : Peter : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q1, Q3, Q2 finished.

11 : Ralph : ToT 2001 Senior O-level, Q1 finished, Q2.

12 : Tamiru : ToT 2001 Senior O-level, Q3, Q4.

Term 1 --- Week 3

8 : Zoltan : Horrible game - y=x^2-x (I think!)

Discussion about games, Conway, augmenting number systems

to solve equations, etc.

Read ToT 2001 Spring JO Q2. Defined midpoint, midline,

centroid, etc.

9 : Peter : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q1 & Q2 review, Q3.

10 : Ralph : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q4a complete, Q4b started.

11 : Tamiru : ToT 2001 Senior O-level, Q3.

12 : Tamiru : ToT 2001 Senior A-level, Q1.

Term 1 --- Week 4

8 : Zoltan : Started on ToT 2001 Spring JO Q2.

Carefully proved facts about midlines, after defining

and treating congruence and similarity in excruciating

depth. Eventually proved Q2 in one case.

9 : Peter : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q3 revised & Q4 finished.

10 : Chris : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q5.

11 : Tryon : ToT 2001 Senior O-level, Q4.

12 : Tamiru : ToT 2001 Senior A-level, Q2.

Term 1 --- Week 5

8 : Zoltan : Horrible game with y=400-x^2

Repeated and completed solution of ToT 2001 Spring JO Q2.

Wrote up a mark-worthy proof in full detail.

9 : Peter : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q5.

10 : Chris : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q5 reviewed.

+ Peter

11 : Tryon : ToT 2001 Senior O-level, Q5, Senior A-level, Q1.

12 : Tamiru : ToT 2001 Senior A-level, Q3.

Term 1 --- Week 6

8 : Zoltan : Horrible game y=highest prime factor of x. (Horribly difficult)

ToT 2001 Spring JO Q3 comprehension, problem solving,

lots of laborious working, got to a neat (short) solution.

Q4 comprehension, quickly presented a solution to illustrate

notions of "for any" and "counterexample".

Q5 after class presented solution as an example of using

an invariant.

9 : Peter : ToT 2001 Junior A-level, Q1 and Q2.

10 : Ralph : ToT 2001 Junior O-level, Q4b completed.

Class wanted to hear about calculus so we

discussed differentiation and integration.

11 : Tryon : ToT 2001 Senior A-level, Q1, and Q2.

12 : Tamiru : ToT 2001 Senior A-level, Q4 and Q5.