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...And Now for Some Math
To recap from the newsletter:
You are eating a special candy bar. You and a friend each take turns eating squares of blue, pink, and green candy starting from the left and moving right. You can bite off as many squares as you want, so long as they’re all the same color of candy. So, for example, your first move could be to bite off 1, 2, 3, or 4 squares. The winner is the person who eats the green square of candy (which is extra delicious!)…
...And Now for Some Math
In the newsletter, we shared problem 64 from this year’s 100 Problem Challenge. Before we dive into solving the problem, we hope you’ll take some time to work on the answers and uncover a pattern…
BEAM Pathway Student Summer Reflections
Each summer, BEAM helps students in our 9-year Pathway Program find summer enrichment programs to help pursue their interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students have participated in PROMYS, MathPath, and many different pre-college programs. This August, we spoke with three different BEAM students about how they spent their summers.
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