Not any camp I ever went to

Post from Street Math Investigators:

We've had a great week so far: we created wonderful math problems on the High Line and our activities may get a mention in the West Village newspaper in July (we'll email you the link when we know for sure.) However, we had a great time at the Museum of Natural History, where we learned about the relative size of things using the "Powers of ten" exhibit, and then walked through 13 billion years of time. We then made our video and then, taking a page from the movie "UP!," calculated how many balloons it would take to lift your child off the ground. We also calculated that it would take over 13 hours to fill up enough balloons to accomplish this task, which was made all the more harder because the balloons only hold the helium for 8 to 10 hours!

Tomorrow we are off to the Trinity Church graveyard to compare the lifespan of people from Colonial America to soap bubbles, and survey the use of mathematics in Native American culture at the Museum of the American Indian. Thursday we will go to MOMA to connect mathematics with modern art, and create a mathematical piece of artwork of our own, courtesy of Sol LeWitt, and then Friday we will sail on the ferry to Governors Island, where we will learn how to find the area of an island by shooting it with cannonballs!