BARD MATH CIRCLE

Math Circle at Exploration School

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Exploration School is a summer enrichment program housed at the campuses of St. Mark’s School (Junior– grades 4-7), Wellesley College (Intermediate– grades 8-9), and Yale University (Senior– grades 10-12). This summer I had the opportunity to work as an instructor at the Intermediate Program. My ingredients were students with a love of learning, a room to put them, and a bunch of math games and puzzles– my result was Math Circle! 

The Math Circle at Explo happened 3 times– each time, there were more kids excited to play SET, solve Rubix cubes, and work on problems. Some students attended in order to try the games, and some students wanted to practice algebra, trigonometry, or even calculus!
An important concept at Exploration School is legacy– there is an overarching goal to create a safe, unique and exciting space that eager students can come back to summer after summer. Perhaps Math Circle will become a legacy!

Japheth Wood

I’m Japheth Wood (he/him), the Bard Math CAMP co-director, and a math professor at Bard College. CAMP (which is an acronym for Creative and Analytical Math Program) is a very special week of the year for our young math community. It's inspiring to see our students return year after year. This is our 11th summer of CAMP! We're back once again on the idyllic Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and thankful to the CAMP students, parents, and staff, for making this mathemagical week happen. Notably, we've (finally) had our first CAMP reunion this past June, an event that I know will grow to be an integral part of what we do.

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Frances Stern

My name is Frances Stern (she/her/hers)! I’ve been teaching math at CAMP since the first year, making sure our math theme has a connection to art and computer. It’s fun to show students math that they don’t see in school. I've retired from daily teaching but continue to teach for the New York Math Circle & students who are seeking more math in their lives. My hobbies include learning to draw, paint, & juggle, reading, walking & folk dancing. I’ve written 2 books for teachers and parents called “Adding Math, Subtracting Tension” (for different age-ranges of children). They pay as much attention to how to keep out of a fight (what many parents told me is a problem) as they do to math.

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