Community Programs

Bard Math Circle

Family Math Afternoons

Days: Saturday afternoons
Times: 2–4pm
Dates: November 16, 2024 and February 15, March 15, April 19, and May 17 in 2025.
Location: Kingston Library, 61 Crown Street, Kingston, NY 12401
Audience: Middle school students and their families

We welcome you to an engaging Family Math Afternoon for middle school students and their families. Solve Math Problems ★ Explore Logic Puzzles ★ Play Thinking Games! Enjoy a selection of engaging and hands-on math activities. The mathematical fun will be infinite!
No prior registration needed, meet in the Community Room.

The Bard Math Circle is directed by Professor Japheth Wood, the Director of Quantitative Literacy and Continuing Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College.

Parent’s Math Workshop

We are piloting a Parent’s Math Workshop in Spring 2025 that will run alongside the family math afternoon. For parents who would like to develop a math friendly home environment and invite their young ones into the world of mathematics. Space in the workshop is limited, so please sign up below.

The Parent’s Math Workshop will meet on the four following Saturdays. // El Taller de Matemáticas para Padres se reunirá los cuatro sábados siguientes:
Saturdays // Sábados: February 15, March 15, April 19, and May 17, 2025
Time // Hora: 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location // Ubicación: Kingston Library // Biblioteca de Kingston, 61 Crown Street, Kingston NY 12401
Parking // Estacionamiento: There is plentiful parking in the Kingston Library parking lot. // Hay abundante estacionamiento en el estacionamiento de la Biblioteca de Kingston
Cost // Costo: Free // Gratis


BARD MATH CIRCLE

Making Math Fun

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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