GENTRY — Students in Gentry’s Quest program attended Math Day hosted by the Northwest Arkansas Service Cooperative in Farmington.

Math Day is designed to reinforce students’ math concepts in a fun way using the concepts they already know in a new and different venue.

Students used the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 . . .) which occurs throughout the worlds of nature, art, music and mathematics and learned "art" using his number sequence for the pattern.

Students used Origami (math shapes) to make boxes.

Origami (pronounced or-i-GA-me) is the Japanese art of paperfolding. "Ori" is the Japanese word for folding and "kami" is the Japanese word for paper. At first, there was very little paper available so only the rich could afford to do paperfolding.

The event was hosted at the First Baptist Church in Farmington and participants reportedlyhad a great time while they learned.

Gentry's resource officer Rachelle Raimer alsovisited with the Intermediate Quest students during their CSI unit about fingerprinting. Each student was able to take home his or her own child identification information for parents to keep on hand.

News, Pages 1 on 11/09/2011