Welcome to the wiki for 7th & 8th grade math at Thomas Prince School!

If you are not a 7th or 8th grade student at Thomas Prince, please exit this wiki and leave it untouched.

The goal of this wiki is to allow math students to share their thoughts and ideas on how to solve problems. My hope is that it will be useful for students in any class, including the math club. There are just a few simple rules:

1) If you have a math problem you would like help solving, list it in on this page below. It would be best if you copied (or cut and paste) the problem into the wiki. If it is a complex problem from a textbook you can refer to the textbook page and problem number for others to use.

2) Write how you have tried to solve the problem (beneath the problem in the wiki) and where you got stuck. Be sure you SAVE it when done.

3) If you have ideas on how to solve other already listed problems, add your thoughts beneath whatever is already written. If the problem is already solved and you have another way to solve it, write that down as well.

4) Under no circumstances should you ever delete or modify anyone elses writing.

That's it. And remember ... all who enter here shall be patient and persistent in their pursuit of solutions.

- Rod Brown

P.S. If you're interested, I've listed a couple of problems below to get us started.

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Two MathCOUNTS Problems posted by Mr. Brown 8/27/07. How would you solve them? Write it down.

#1 A sculpture of a clothespin is 20 feet high. A normal clothespin of this shape is five inches high. Using this scale, how many feet tall would a sculpture of a 5-footm 70inch woman be?

#2 All of the ID codes in Agueleo's school are three-digit positive integers. For Angueleo's ID code, the product of the digits is 216, the sum of the digits is 19, and the integer ID code is as large as possible. What is Angueleo's ID code?