Author: Kateri Doran

  • CAMP Reunion 2024

    CAMP Reunion 2024

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    Today was a very special day in Bard Math CAMP history – the very first CAMP reunion! CAMP alumni/ae, staff members, parents, and friends gathered in the lobby of the Reem-Kayden Center once again for a selection of math games and puzzles – old favorites like Ghost Blitz and the Towers of Hanoi, along with…

  • CAMP 2023 – Questions to Ponder

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    Calling all CAMPers, parents, and curious readers – CAMP math instructors Japheth and Frances have a few fun problems for you to think about for the rest of the summer: Cookies and Kids: Kids A, B, C share a certain number of cookies (some might get zero). Find a systematic way to represent each way…

  • CAMP 2023 Day 5

    CAMP 2023 Day 5

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    It’s the 5th and final day of the 10th year of CAMP. This morning, while they puzzled out Slitherlink challenges, magic tricks, and Set – games that many of them had never seen before the beginning of the week – the CAMPers recieved their ocean blue T-shirts, just in time for a big group photo…

  • CAMP 2023 Day 4

    CAMP 2023 Day 4

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    The sun is shining over RKC – setting the stage for lots of summer fun at CAMP! This morning, CAMPers got together in the auditorium to solve more math puzzles – the Towers of Hanoi, Rush Hour, and shape-matching challenges. The problem of the day: Completely fill a 3×3 grid with X’s and O’s. How…

  • CAMP 2023 Day 3

    CAMP 2023 Day 3

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    This morning, the CAMPers gathered in the auditorium for a collection of math puzzles and the new problem of the day: How many Tower of Hanoi board states are there? The CAMPers had fun trying to work it out, rewriting the problem on the board – in the Greek alphabet. Right before breaking up into…

  • CAMP 2023 Day 2

    CAMP 2023 Day 2

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    The second day of this year’s CAMP started off with a variety of fun math games – Ghost Blitz, Spot It! , a big game of Set, the towers of Hanoi, and a miniature version of chess. The CAMPers were also presented with a “problem of the day”: How many possible Ghost Blitz cards are…

  • CAMP 2023 Day 1

    CAMP 2023 Day 1

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    This year marks an exciting point in the history of CAMP: the program’s 10th anniversary! Starting today, the CAMPers (some returning, some new) are going to learn about combinatorics – the mathematics of counting and combining things. First thing this morning, the CAMPers gathered under the staircase in the Reem-Kayden Center to try out a…

  • CAMP 2022 Day 5

    CAMP 2022 Day 5

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    It’s the fifth and final day of Bard Math CAMP.  This morning opened with a special treat – the CAMPers finally got their Bard Math Circle t-shirts to wear!  We got the Bitó Auditorium ready just in time for Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, to pop in and say a few words about…

  • CAMP 2022 Day 4

    CAMP 2022 Day 4

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    On the morning of Day 4, CAMPers had even more math puzzles to choose from – along with the regular linking puzzles, Hex, and Hanoi, we had miscellaneous math books – from The Moscow Puzzles to Eye Twisters – as well as the Magic Birthday Trick, scattered throughout the room.  “It’s really simple – like,…

  • CAMP 2022 Day 3

    CAMP 2022 Day 3

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    By Wednesday, we’ve reached the very middle of the Math CAMP week.  So far, the CAMPers have explored a wide range of math puzzles and games, as well as having learned about binary (writing numbers in Base 2, as strings of 0’s and 1’s).  This morning, we had a special guest lecture by math professor…

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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