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  • Tweet, Tweet, Math!!

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    Hello everyone, the Bard Math Circle now has an official twitter account. Follow us for your daily dose of math! See you at a Math Circle! Until then…keep doing math, keep asking questions, and keep making discoveries! I can’t wait to see how people did on the AMC 8! I wished I could have taken…

  • AMC 8 Summary

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    This is a quick summary to start off your morning. Yesterday’s AMC-8 contest at Bard College went exceptionally well. We had 48 middle school students from around the area take the national AMC-8 exam, representing almost 20 different schools. The contest was followed by a wonderful math talk by Jim Belk and Maria Belk on…

  • AMC-8 Schools at Bard

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    The AMC-8 exam is tomorrow, and our event has grown even beyond what we were expecting! A few weeks ago we had to start a waiting list, but then ordered more test packets to increase our capacity. So, no more waiting list! We will be able to accommodate last-minute arrivals, so please encourage your friends (and…

  • Instant Insanity

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    Dear Math Lovers, It’s that time of month again – the Bard Math Circle will meet on Saturday, November 10th, 1-3pm in the Kingston Library (upstairs in the Community Room). Middle school-aged students will engage in our math puzzles and logic games, work on a sheet of challenging problems, and build a math artifact to…

  • Math Scene Investigation : Hudson Valley

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    ‎”In the mathematics outreach system, bland teaching offenses are considered especially heinous. In the Hudson Valley, the dedicated instructors who investigate these vicious felonies are members of a elite squad known as the Bard Math Circle. These are their stories.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8lDYrvTILc

  • Are you motivated by your test scores?

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    In preparation for the AMC-8 exam coming up on November 13th, I took a look at the statistics from last year’s contest. One thing that is striking is that, although this contest attracts some of the highest achieving middle school students in the country, the average score on the exam is less than 40%. That’s right –…

  • BARD COLLEGE TO HOST NATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH COMPETITION

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    BARD COLLEGE TO HOST NATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH COMPETITION ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.––Bard College mathematics professors Japheth Wood and Lauren Rose, the Bard Math Circle, and the Bard College Mathematics Program are proud to host the American Mathematics Contest 8 (AMC8) for middle school students in the Mid Hudson Valley. The contest will be held in the…

  • Tutoring in the Bard Prison Initiative

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    The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) is in need of volunteers to serve as tutors for our math students.  Tutors would commit to traveling to the facility on a weekly basis for the semester.  It is generally a four hour commitment, factoring in travel time and the two hour session, as well as going through the…

  • Kingston Library Circle has begun

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    The 2012-2013 Math Circle season is now fully underway, with the first math circle at the Kingston Library of the season. Participants enjoyed our math circle puzzles and games, a sheet of challenging math problems at the middle school level, and especially our hands-on project, which this month involved wooden cubes and masking tape!Please join…

  • USA Mathematical Talent Search

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    This year’s problems for the USA Mathematical Talent Search are available, and the round 1 problems are due on October 22, 2012. This contest is interesting in that students send in full explanations, rather than just the numerical answers. Good luck to any Bard Math Circle students who compete!

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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