Free-think fridays
yahtzee I mean TENZI!
I knew from back from the days on middle school that probability is the outcome over the TOTAL number of possibilities. so if you flip a coin you have 1 outcome and 2 possibilities so its a 50% chance. I had to utilize my prior knowledge on probability and also had to remember whether you add or multiply to get the probability when you add multiple dice. You multiply by the way. I don’t know of anything else in the world of probability that i don't know of. But i'm sure that that magical world exceeds far beyond my comprehension.
As a group we experimented with tenzi, which is a game where you roll the dice and try to... wait its just yahtzee. Ya it's just yahtzee with ten dice really not that exciting. On the bright side my group had really positive collaboration together and we took a lot of information like average time to get 10 dice all the same number. And what the probability is to roll all dice the same side from 1 to 10 dice. I see myself working well with others in my future.
As a group we experimented with tenzi, which is a game where you roll the dice and try to... wait its just yahtzee. Ya it's just yahtzee with ten dice really not that exciting. On the bright side my group had really positive collaboration together and we took a lot of information like average time to get 10 dice all the same number. And what the probability is to roll all dice the same side from 1 to 10 dice. I see myself working well with others in my future.
SET it UP
SET Overview
Set is a card game. Each cards contains four different characteristics.
1- color 2- shape 3- shade 4- number of shapes
To find a set it must you must find 3 cards and each characteristic must either completely match or completely don’t match. As an example the three cards much either have the same color like all green or all different, green, red, and blue.
Rule set:
Put out 12 cards.
When you find a set say “set.”- collect those 3 cards they count as 1 point.
if you say set and it turns out not to be correct you must give back one of your sets to the deck.
Have fun
SET Thoughts
Looking at the sets i collected below you can start to see some trends. for instance most of my sets have the same shape, a good amount tend to have the same color but other things seem to be random. Many of them seem not to have the same shade but all different shades. I think these are the one I was seeing first because i was setting with some people that were really good at the game and the easier sets were taken faster than i could see them so i went for some of the more complex sets.
SET Overview
Set is a card game. Each cards contains four different characteristics.
1- color 2- shape 3- shade 4- number of shapes
To find a set it must you must find 3 cards and each characteristic must either completely match or completely don’t match. As an example the three cards much either have the same color like all green or all different, green, red, and blue.
Rule set:
Put out 12 cards.
When you find a set say “set.”- collect those 3 cards they count as 1 point.
if you say set and it turns out not to be correct you must give back one of your sets to the deck.
Have fun
SET Thoughts
Looking at the sets i collected below you can start to see some trends. for instance most of my sets have the same shape, a good amount tend to have the same color but other things seem to be random. Many of them seem not to have the same shade but all different shades. I think these are the one I was seeing first because i was setting with some people that were really good at the game and the easier sets were taken faster than i could see them so i went for some of the more complex sets.
SET Trends
I had a question about when there was 12 cards that didn't have a set within them or at least we couldn't find one. (Example of this below) My question was what is the mathematical probability of there being 12 card that don't have a set in them? i think one of the biggest reason these 12 cards don't appear to have a set is that there is only two red cards and the other two colors, green and blue don't have any matches in them. Is there a mathematical way of seeing if there is a set in these 12 cards or not?
I had a question about when there was 12 cards that didn't have a set within them or at least we couldn't find one. (Example of this below) My question was what is the mathematical probability of there being 12 card that don't have a set in them? i think one of the biggest reason these 12 cards don't appear to have a set is that there is only two red cards and the other two colors, green and blue don't have any matches in them. Is there a mathematical way of seeing if there is a set in these 12 cards or not?
Week 2: Problem Perspective
We have found a solution to this problem and learned that the Englishmen in the middle house has the fish. Apart from that we as a group decided and started working on our visual representation of of this problem. We decided to make it look similar to the work that we were doing earlier to try to give of how we were able to organize or data and then find the answer. I think what we have so far is a very good jumping off point and with some color it will make a good final product.
Picture of start of final draft:
We have found a solution to this problem and learned that the Englishmen in the middle house has the fish. Apart from that we as a group decided and started working on our visual representation of of this problem. We decided to make it look similar to the work that we were doing earlier to try to give of how we were able to organize or data and then find the answer. I think what we have so far is a very good jumping off point and with some color it will make a good final product.
Picture of start of final draft:
Week 1: Problem Perspective
This “house hunting” problem reminds me a lot of a sudoku puzzle where you're given some information that you can use to eliminate other options and throw that possess fill the entire grid or solve the problem. The problem is asking for “Who keeps the fish?”, but to do you you need to figure out everything else. So after my group figured out what the problem was asking for and the process it would take to solve it we immediately started making a visual. With this visual we plugged in all data that we knew and started to deduce all of the other information.
Picture of how far we got in one period:
This “house hunting” problem reminds me a lot of a sudoku puzzle where you're given some information that you can use to eliminate other options and throw that possess fill the entire grid or solve the problem. The problem is asking for “Who keeps the fish?”, but to do you you need to figure out everything else. So after my group figured out what the problem was asking for and the process it would take to solve it we immediately started making a visual. With this visual we plugged in all data that we knew and started to deduce all of the other information.
Picture of how far we got in one period:
Task 1:
Why Calculus? #2
Why Calculus? #2
- Give a brief summary of the paper.
- In what ways did this perspective get you thinking?
- What parts, of the paper, do you feel you agree with the writer? Why?
- How do you anticipate this connecting our work this semester?