SEP Session 3, Day 4

We observed so many cool lessons today! In"Greatness Through Game Theory" students played a game where 3 students picked a number between 0 and 100. Then 5 other students wrote number a number they believed would be 1/2 the average of the 3 students' numbers. This process was repeated for 4 rounds. Then the students learned about Prisoner's Dilemma and Nash's Equilibrium. They used payoff matrices to solve games centered around these principles.

In "Disease Detectives" students simulated the spread of a disease. Each student wrote their name on five slips of paper. One unknown student was "infected" and received slips of paper that had been dipped in a baking soda solution. The students walked around the room and exchanged their slips of paper to simulate their germs spreading. After 10 exchanges, the students dipped their slips of paper in a pH indicator to determine if they were infected. If they were their paper would turn green due to the baking soda reacting with the pH indictor solution. Five students ended the game "sick," even though a few of those students never came in direct connect with the original "infected" student. Others students who exchanged with patient 0 didn't get sick, demonstrating how some people are carriers of diseases.