<p>My son’s course assignment for his first year at CTY just arrived by email. He was assigned to his first choice, Probabililty and Game Theory at Franklin and Marshall! He’s thrilled, and I’m relieved because it’s a nut-free campus.</p>
<p>Anyone else going into this course, by any chance?</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who helped so much with information and advice.</p>
<p>My son took that course second session two years ago. In his year, section A and section B (divided by a mysterious criterion, possibly age) used different textbooks and had a rather different experience in the “same” course. When the course is over, PM me and let’s compare notes.</p>
<p>I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if your son is going to be at F&M i’d just like to tell him that if he’s into music he should stop by the chameleon club (which is on North Water Street) to see a show sometime… it’s sometimes hard to find things to do in Lancaster :)</p>
<p>I’ll do that; I hope your son’s experience was good. I did hear somewhere that the two sections are divided by age. If so, my son will be in the younger group.</p>
<p>Fortunately, I learned here that the stated prerequisite, Algebra I, is not enough for that course. My son is planning to do EPGY Algebra II before the course starts.</p>
<p>Hi, fendergirl,</p>
<p>CTY is a division of Johns Hopkins that offers summer courses on college campuses for middle-school and high-school students. My son just turned 13. If he were college age, though, I’m sure he would have loved to visit the club. Thanks!</p>
<p>oh ha ha, well tell him to check it out in about five years then :)</p>
<p>and best of luck to him at his class.</p>
<p>“sometimes hard to find things to do in Lancaster”?? </p>
<p>That’s very true, the best thing we did was walk like 2 miles to a farmer’s market and cross a bridge to a bagel shop, and oh yeah, walk to a gas station every now and then and buy some more food. We couldn’t even eat @ the quizno’s in our little campus area, nor go to the bookstore. Plus, you can’t leave too far. It’s a very structured program, set time for tennis, for eating only in the dining hall, etc. He’ll probably have fun though, considering he’s 13 and he’ll hopefully enjoy the course.</p>
<p>My daughter is also registered for Probability and Game Theory but at a different location. I’m curious to know more about other’s experiences and the need for Algebra II. She will hopefully be able to complete that through CTY distance education beforehand. Does anyone know if it’s not age but previous math courses that determine the grouping?</p>
<p>sarorah - there used to be a neat theatre downtown called zoetropolis but i believe it has since closed. they used to show independent films, and have little concerts there on weekends. it was a really neat place to go to.</p>
<p>MomOFour, I’m not sure about that, but it’s a good question to ask CTY. I’ll try to give them a call later this week. The information about the need for Algebra II came from a poster here, on a thread that I started. I’m swamped at work at the moment, but I’ll try to look it up later and post the link.</p>
<p>I did a search and found the thread about your son’s allergy needs which discussed the probability and game theory class. Yulsie mentioned that the instructor took the younger kids aside to catch them up on what they needed from Algebra II. There was another post in that thread which mentioned that kids from the same class are housed together. Last year, my daughter was one of a few girls in a science class and she was housed with girls taking humanities and writing classes. I hope there are at least a few girls taking probability and game theory though she had no trouble making friends with girls taking the other classes last time.</p>
<p>To MomOFour:</p>
<p>I took Probability & Game Theory three summers ago (I think) and was one of three girls in the class. The rest of our hall were all taking a science class, so in that aspect we had something in common with them. We all got along with the guys in our class and did most of the work with them (but I work well with guys, sometimes more so than other girls) and got close to the others in our hall because we’d eat meals with them & hang out with the when we weren’t in class. In fact, I became better friends with two in the other class than with the two in P>.
I took Algebra II the year before, but I don’t remember it being required. The math wasn’t that hard as far as I remember. It was mostly just the concepts that required a different kind of thinking that algebra, and even geometry, had.</p>
<p>The key kind of math to know for the probability and game theory course is, of course, probability (that is, COUNTING) and matrix algebra. I thought the teacher of the A section at Lancaster (the younger kids) did pretty well with teaching the necessary math before launching into applying it. Yes, the Lancaster classes will room along the same hallway with classmates, with boys from a class with few boys (that year, History of Disease) rounding out the rooms along a hallway for a class with few girls. My son also made friends with hallmates who weren’t classmates.</p>