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  • 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.Ā  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.Ā  Tessellation is when a surface is covered by shapes that have no overlaps or gaps. CAMPers are divided into 6…

  • CAMP 2021 Staff Page

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    Welcome to CAMP 2021! Here is our amazing staff.

  • CAMP 2020 Day 5 – again next summer

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    Today is our last day at CAMP 2020. We felt heartbroken to say goodbye to all the CAMPers. It was wonderful having you with us this week: the time we spent together was truly a highlight of our summer, notwithstanding we were all staying home.Ā Ā  Math with Japheth, Erin, and Frances: At 1 PM in…

  • CAMP 2020 Day 4 – “we donā€™t want CAMP to end”

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    We almost didn’t want to announce that it is Day 4 at CAMP 2020. Tomorrow will be the last day CAMPers spend time with new friends in the Zoom classrooms, eagerly sharing ideas and stories. Over the past four days, students have bonded with their classmates, their mentors (our junior staff members) assigned to each…

  • CAMP 2020 Day 3 – after the storm

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    Time passes remarkably quickly when each day is fulfilling. It is already Day 3 at CAMP. After some anxiety over the storm yesterday, our fantastic team felt recharged and ready for some more math, CS, and our CAMPers’ inimitable creativity. Uniting Communities: Long before our daily start time of 9:00 AM, our coordinator, Felicia Flores,…

  • CAMP 2020 Day 2

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    Welcome to Day 2 at CAMP 2020. It is raining in most of the places where our CAMPers are. What a chilly day to stay dry, make new friends, and learn cryptography under creative settings!Ā  Things started coming together today. Our instructors prepared different plans for their groups. In the TAN and COT sections of…

  • CAMP 2020 Day 1- the beginning

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    It is Day 1 at CAMP 2020, and the first year that we are holding the program online. Since cyberspace shortened the distance between us, the Bard Math Circle received numerous applications from around the country. We see studentsā€™ excitement over running into old friends and connecting with new CAMPers in Zoom classrooms.Ā  We distributed…

  • CAMP 2020 Staff Page

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    Welcome to CAMP 2020! Here is our list of wonderful staff.

  • 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…

Japheth Wood

Iā€™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)! Iā€™ve been teaching math at CAMP since the first year, making sure our math theme has a connection to art and computer. Itā€™s fun to show students math that they donā€™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. Iā€™ve written 2 books for teachers and parents called ā€œAdding Math, Subtracting Tensionā€ (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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