At the Oct 23 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at an example of telescoping sums.

Materials:

• Slides

I'll accept the Warmup 5 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.

The following Alcumus topics are recommended:

• Prealgebra - Ratio Basics
• Prealgebra - Proportions
• Prealgebra - Unit Conversions

At the Oct 16 meeting we went over some of the problems in last week's set and looked at an example of how to convert periodic fractions in a base other than 10.

Materials:

• Slides

I'll accept the Warmup 4 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.

The following Alcumus topics are recommended:

• Prealgebra - Decimals and Fractions
• Prealgebra - Repeating Decimals

At the Oct 9 meeting we discussed

• divisor sum
• number bases

Materials:

• Slides

I'll accept the Warmup 3 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.

The following Alcumus topics are recommended:

• Number Theory - Converting from Base 10
• Number Theory - Converting to Base 10
• Number Theory - Base Number Problem-Solving
• Number Theory - Base Number Arithmetic

At the Oct 2 meeting we continued divisibility rules and related topics. See

• Slides

At our first meeting on Sep 18 we reviewed divisibility rules and related topics. See

• Handout
• Slides

I handed out the club rules. First-timers did Warmup 1 and returning students did Warmup 4. You needed to have 5 correct answers to earn a point.

➡️ Homework for this week:

• make sure you have a AoPS account and have your parent email me the account name. You will then be added to our AoPS Forum.

• If you haven't already, you should work on these Prealgebra Alcumus topics:

  • Divisibility
  • Primes and Composites Basic
  • Prime Factorization
  • Least Common Multiples

  Make sure you reach at least green, ideally blue.