BARD MATH CIRCLE

Author: Bard Math Circle

  • Paper Plate Polyhedra – December 2012 Circle

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    Here are some pictures of our activity from December, 2012: Paper Plate Polyhedra. It’s amazing what you can do with a simple paper plate! A tip if you’re rushing out to buy paper plates: the cheaper the better for this one. The super fancy and durable plates don’t fold so well. Polygonal Flower as a…

  • The Mathematics of Chalk

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    Dear Math Circlers, Our monthly math circle is finally here! Please join on Saturday, May 11, 2013, from 1-3pm at the Kingston Library (55 Franklin Street, Kingston, NY), where we’ll combine our math enrichment activities with the library’s annual Chalk Walk. After our initial computations upstairs in the Community Room, we’ll leave behind the tomes,…

  • Círculo de Matemáticas KINGSTON con Sr. Madera

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    From Las Noticias del 13–19 febrero, 2013: Círculo de Matemáticas  KINGSTON – Cada segundo sábado del mes, a la 1:00 pm (y hasta junio) se ofrece en la Biblioteca Pública de Kingston una clase de diversión matemática para todos aquellos jóvenes en edad escolar. Entre las actividades, aparecen rompecabezas de matemáticas, juegos de lógica, resolución…

  • New! Documents page.

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    I’ve just added a Documents page. Right now, you can download problem sets for the math circle we run in Kingston. I’ll add additional documents later.To visit the page, just click on the documents tab up there in the toolbard.

  • January 2013 Update

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    Dear Bard Math Circle Community, In November last year the Bard Math Circle offered the AMC 8 Math Competition for the first time, and had a fantastic turnout. Forty eight middle school students from around the area came to Bard College for this national exam, and worked on 25 mathematical problems in a 40 minute…

  • Museum of Math : First Impressions

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    I have never been so hyper coming from a museum in my life! Today I went to the new Museum of Math in New York City and boy did I have a blast. The exhibits lend themselves to a variety of topics ranging from Emily Noether’s work on noncommutative algebra (simplified with a bird in…

  • Truncated Icosahedron in Madison Square Park

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    Look! Its a truncated icosahedron…aka a soccer ball! There are 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. Alan House took this photo December 11th in Madison Square Park. Do you know what is near there? That’s right! The Museum of Mathematics! I can’t wait to go there!

  • AMC 8 Solutions

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in , ,

    The AMC 8 Solutions have been published on the AMC website. But the real fun is happening at the Art of Problem Solving resource wiki, where you can already read nicely written solutions.If you kept a record of the answers you submitted, you can calculate your informal score (out of 25). How did you do?My…

  • Is a Turkey with a Turkey inside (Turkey)^2?

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    Happy Thanksgiving from Bard Math Circle!  Before you pass out from tryptophan or sleep to catch some amazing sales on Black Friday, sink your teeth into ViHart’s latest video!  If we think of each bird as its own function we can treat this…Frankenturkey as a composition* of them!  Turkey(Duck(Chicken(Egg)))  * In the context of functions,…

  • AMC 8 Exams are on their way back

    —

    by

    Bard Math Circle
    in

    Good Morning,The AMC 8 exam was last Tuesday, and 48 middle school students gathered at Bard College to face this challenging national exam. We collected the exam booklets at the end of the contest, to help ensure the integrity of the AMC 8. Now that the testing security window is over, the exams are on…

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.

This will close in 20 seconds

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.

This will close in 20 seconds