Author: Tsitsi Mambo

  • Bard Math Camp Day 5

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    Our last day of Camp began in a flurry of activity as Campers received their T-shirts and made the final touches on the Rubik’s Cube Mosaic. In Math class, we learned magic tricks designed to help us understand math better using addition. We finished off our lessons and challenges from the week and prepared to…

  • Bard Math Camp Day 4

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    Day 4 of C.A.M.P. began with a flurry of activity as more campers joined the effort to complete the Mosaic and taught each other new games such as Backgammon and chess. In Computer Science, we continued on our journey to learning and mastering NetLogo. We also continued to deepen our knowledge of computers and their…

  • Bard Math Camp Day 3

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    Day 3 of camp began with  race to complete the Rubik’s cube mosaic! This has been a lengthy task that will require manipulating 400 Rubik’s cubes. In Computer science, we began forming fractal images through NetLogo and utilizing the concept bifurcation from Mathematics. We managed to return the output of the function we used through…

  • Bard Math Camp Day 2

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    Everyone arrived bright and early full of energy for the second day of CAMP! We began with a variety of warm-up activities to get our brains on track for more math and logic. We had teams learning to solve Rubik’s cubes, campers pairing up to play Rush Hour and other campers solving a variety of…

  • Bard Math CAMP Day 1

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    It’s the first day and there’s lots of excitement and nervousness as old friends connect and meet new friends over an assortment of games including rush hour, human feline puzzles and huge 10 person rounds of Set. In Computer Science, our teacher Yulia pretended to be a Robot and challenged the campers to right specific…

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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