Once Upon a Prime
Once upon a Prime is a math project that incorporates math, history, and creative writing. We began with a story about someone who has played a important role in the history of mathematics. Next, we wrote a fictional piece incorporating the real dates, math, and acurrate facts about our persons live. I choose Richard Arenstorf, the man who solved the three body problem that was necessary to launch the apollo 11 to the moon. Next I teamed up with other students that had stories from the same time period as mine. Together we made a time line made of a collage of important events in history as well as quotes from our own writing. This was to illustrate what as occurring on earth while this math was being discovered. Our group covered 1960-2013. Together, our whole class as a whole had created a time line dating back to 4000 ad. We then complied all of our stories online into a digital time line.
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