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  • The Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle

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    New this year is the Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle. Announced in the Kingston Daily Freeman, the Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle will extend the Bard Math Circle’s work with local math teachers. Over the last year, math teachers have been able to receive continuing education credit for their participation in the Bard Math Circle library program…

  • Chalk Walk and Tessellations at the Kingston Library

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    This weekend marked the last meeting of the Bard Math Circle at the Kingston Library for the spring 2012 semester. Bard undergraduates are preparing for finals, seniors will soon be graduating, and Bardians retreat for the summer. The circle coincided with the Kingston Library’s Chalk Walk, so we planned out a chalk tessellation activity as…

  • Mathematics in the Game of SET®

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    Here’s a message from Bard Math Professor Lauren Rose. Lauren is the co-founder and faculty co-advisor of the Bard Math Circle. – Japheth___________________________________________Dear Colleagues and friends, The Bard Math Dept/Bard Math Circle presents two talks about the card game SET®, next Wed evening and Thursday afternoon.  The first talk is for a general audience (appropriate…

  • Problems and Solutions for Kingston Math Circle 3/10/12

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    Solutions 1. In the correctly worked out addition problem below, different letters represent different digits. What digit does A represent? A4+4A=BCB First, look at how big the sum can be, and deduce that B must be 1, since the sum of two 2-digit numbers can’t be more than 198 (which is 99+99). Second, consider the…

  • Did you know you could tessellate a car?

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    I thought that this VW Bug was really cool when I found it on Facebook. Then I realized it was a tessellation! If you don’t know what a Tessellation is you should come to one of our upcoming Math Circles! Jeannette designed a really cool activity about tessellations.

  • Deltoidal Hexecontahedron

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    Japheth mentioned a few weeks ago MoMath’s “Math Monday” series. I was looking for activities to do this semester with our Circles, and I found this activity. There are many decks in my house that haven’t been used in years, so I decided to try one for myself. This is my attempt a deltoidal hexecontahedron. (deltoid = kite,…

  • MoMath Activities

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    For those of you who are just waiting for the Museum of Mathematics to open in Manhattan: The wonderful MoMath Activities are now available on their website. You’ve enjoyed building the Hyperbolic Parabola Model and the Hexatetra Flexagon at the Bard Math Circle. Now download and try them all! The Math Midway is at New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center through January 22, 2012. MoMath…

  • Problem 7: Sharing Cookies

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      How many ways can Jeff, Jeannette, Joy, and Jackie share 7 chocolate chip cookies? Each person should get at least one cookie.   For example: Jeff •• Jeannette ••• Joy • Jackie •

  • Problem 6: Tetrahedral Numbers

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      A tetrahedron (triangular pyramid) is made by piling up four layers of tennis balls. How many tennis balls are used in all?

  • Problem 4: Summing Triangular Numbers

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      What is the sum of the first 4 triangular numbers?

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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