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A summer camp at UC Merced helps middle-school students enjoy and conquer math

Reading Time: 6 minutes In late July at UC Merced, a classroom of middle school students split into teams for a game of Jeopardy. One problem: if the base of a 12-foot ladder rests 3 feet from a wall, how high up the wall does the ladder reach?  After the teacher sketched a triangle, students immediately recognized the concept.   “This is giving Pythagorean Theorem,” one student exclaimed.  Armed with miniature whiteboards, students drew the tri…
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themercedfocus.org broke the news on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
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