Category: CAMP2015

  • CAMP Staff 2015

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    2015 Staff:                     Our enthusiastic and talented staff of math educators from Summer 2015! Senior Staff  Erin Toliver After earning degrees in mathematics from Bard and Dartmouth Colleges, Erin became a math teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, NY. Now living in Toronto, she funnels her…

  • CAMP is over. For now!

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    Our 2015 summer C.A.M.P. (Creative and Analytical Math Program) is over, but our 2015–2016 program will be announced in the next few weeks. Please join our email list (Sign Up) if you are interested in our library programs, competition programs or C.A.M.P.

  • CAMP is over. For now!

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    Our 2015 summer C.A.M.P. (Creative and Analytical Math Program) is over. If you are interested in next summer’s program, please make sure to join our email list: Sign Up

  • Day 5

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    Today was our last day of math CAMP! Fortunately, this didn’t mean that students didn’t continue to solve interesting problems. We began our day by playing “Liar’s Bingo,” a game that utilized sequences of six different numbers that were chosen in order to follow a very mysterious rule. The process can be described as follows:…

  • Day 4

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    The mathematicians began their day as greedy pirates, swash-buckling, mathematically of course, to get the most gold coins in a famous game theory conundrum. Here’s the problem for those who haven’t seen it before: There are 5 rational pirates A, B, C, D and E. They find 100 gold coins. They must decide how to distribute…

  • Day 3

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    The warm up on Day 3 was slightly different than usual. Instead of doing one of the usual logic puzzles, the mathematicians had to figure out how to draw a perpendicular lines using a compass. Then they moved on to figuring out how to draw a pentagon using a compass, building on what they learned…

  • Day 2

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    We began our day with a logic puzzle that goes by the moniker, “Impossible Elevators.” Although, the bright mathematicians got to work making it possible to get to any floor in a seven floor building with six elevators granted each elevator could only stop at three floors and you’re not allowed to switch elevators! Can…

  • Day 1

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    The day began with our young mathematicians looking at a puzzle about dropping eggs from tall buildings. Here’s a variation of the problem that you can mull over.  You are put in charge of testing the durability of a new cellphone. You have two cellphones and a 100 story building. You want to know at…

  • Our 2015 C.A.M.P. Staff!

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    We’ve just announced our amazing 2015 C.A.M.P. Staff! Please visit our staff page!

  • The CAMP is Waitlisted

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    The Creative & Analytical Math Program (CAMP) is currently full. To join the waiting list, please complete the application, as described on the CAMP Webpage.

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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