Author: Pin-Shan Lai

  • CAMP 2021 Day 5 – Time to Say Goodbye

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    We cannot believe it is CAMP Day 5 already! Welcome, all staff, parents, and CAMPers to Day 5. Today, before we head off to a new journey, we would like to introduce our CAMP 2021 Photo Gallery on the main page: Bard Math CAMP More Information If you clicked into every small circle (Yes! Math…

  • CAMP 2021 Day 4 – Tessellations Everywhere!

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    As usual, welcome to CAMP 2021 Day 4! As we are closing up the week, staffs and CAMPers remain energetic from the early morning. Today, CAMPers work on the in-depth application of tessellation. This includes: complex Voronoi Tessellations creation, constructing tessellations through mathematical understanding, and writing Python Turtle codes. In Anish‘s Computer Science class, CAMPers…

  • CAMP 2021 Day 3 – Half Way Through

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    Welcome to CAMP Day 3! CAMPers had worked their way through the week with hard work and creativity. Today’s work focus on the application of tessellations. Each class explores topics on tessellations with CAMPers experimenting with each subject with their hands.   In Shuang‘s Art Class, CAMPers begins with exploring different real-life tessellations. For instance,…

  • CAMP Day 2 – The Process

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    It is CAMP Day 2! After having a bright start yesterday, Day 2 begins with CAMPers receiving more knowledge on tessellation. In Frances‘s Math class, CAMPers created tessellations using a scalene triangle and then examined them to see how they demonstrated that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees.  CAMPers then…

  • CAMP 2021 Day 1 – Journey Begins

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    Today is Day 1 of CAMP! CAMPers join us all around the region this morning. After last year’s virtual CAMP, we decided to host this year’s CAMP online too. Our theme this year is Tessellation.  Tessellation is when a surface is covered by shapes that have no overlaps or gaps. CAMPers are divided into 6…

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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