New! Math circle at the Germantown Library

Good news!

We’re opening a new math circle at the Germantown Library, starting this Thursday at 4pm. This circle will be held on Third Thursdays of each month.

Please join us in Germantown, and share this message with your friends. If you’d like to receive regular reminders about the Germantown math circle, just send us a friendly message to bardmathcircle@gmail.com.

Date: Thursday, March 20
Time: 4pm
Location: The Germantown Library, 31 Palatine Park Road in Germantown, NY (518.537.5800; germantownlibrary.org).

Room: The Hover Room. Please park in the rear parking area, which has direct access to the Hover Room.

The Bard Math Circle, organized by students and faculty at Bard College, is a mathematical enrichment program geared toward middle school and elementary students. Each month features puzzles and games, challenging problems, and a hands-on project that students can take home. The Bard Math Circle offers a gentle math environment where students can explore hands-on math without time pressure. The aim is to help students strengthen their critical thinking skills and make math more fun. The program is geared toward students in grades 5-8, but all are welcome. The plan is for the Bard Math Circle to meet on the Third Thursday of each month at the Germantown Library.
Please join us!

Bard Math Circle

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Pi-Ku – Pi Day Haiku!

Bailey Middle School held a Pi-Ku contest, and math teacher Sheila Shaffer reports that they received over 100 entries in two categories:
  • Use of imagery
  • Really about pi/circles/etc

The directions were that it had to be about circles.
And now the winners!
Imagery winner- Indira Delacorte (6th grade)
      Undisturbed
      Plant stalk blows on sand, forming a circle.  Salt stings my eyes.
      Pi, I think, patterns of delicacy, never repeating.
Circle winner- Kaitlyn  McDowell (6th grade)
      Pi, so fine.
      I thought that it was edible, but I can’t eat numbers
      So I ate the piece of paper that I wrote the numbers on.
Congratulations, and Happy Pi Day!