11th annual UPEI Math Camp brings together province’s best math students
The 11th annual Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)/UPEI Math Camp was recently held on campus May 3-5. The Math Camp is a national initiative that sponsors close to two dozen regional camps across Canada.
UPEI's Math Camp is the main community outreach activity of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. This year, the camp hosted a group of sixteen students-ten girls and six boys from grades 10 and 11-from eight Island high schools and one home scholar.
This group represents some of the best math students on PEI, with goals to enhance student education, and to encourage students to continue studying math when they reach the university level. Most of the math and statistics faculty present 60-to 90-minute sessions with the camp attendees, introducing some mathematics that is understandable to the students, but unfamiliar in a high school curriculum.
The students are also challenged with group problem-solving, mathematical relays, and mathematical trivia. As the camp runs for three days, the students stayed overnight in Andrew Hall, and relaxed during the evenings with some recreational activities. The students got a better sense of university life during their stay in residence.
