Camp overview + origins

Kinetics of math is a camp designed to teach students how to spin poi and how to graph those movements using Trigonometry.  It is aimed at high school students whom have passed Algebra because familiarity with functions and transformations is necessary.  Proficiency is not necessary at this stage.  The camp is intended to give students a way to see the connection between things going on in the real world and topics covered in math class.

When in class at school, the focus is so heavily on learning specific skills that it is easy to lose sight of the theme of the topic.  At Kinetics in Motion, students will have freedom to play with their ideas and are encouraged to explore with their body, through learning to spin Poi, and explore with their minds, through learning to graph the same material.

Students will spend half of the learning time working increasing their poi skills and half of the learning time playing with math graphing programs.  The math portion is intended to be comprehensible, fairly easy, and focused heavily on letting the students explore transformations on the functions to simulate the motions they had experienced in the hands-on poi lessons.  The instructors will be on-hand to guide them through any questions they may have about the mathematics and Poi.