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Category: Purple Comet

  • 2019 Purple Comet

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    The Purple Comet is a team-based contest in which teams of up to 6 students work together to solve 20 problems in 1 hour. The contest takes place in April, and has a middle school and high school level contest. This year the Bard Math Circle hosted 3 teams: Team Math Circle (Middle School Mixed)…

  • 2014 Purple Comet

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    2014 Purple Comet at Bard (I think this is the first year we hosted the Purple Comet. Our records are pretty weak.) Bard Math Circle Team 1 (Middle School, Mixed Team) Katie Houston, Brian Wu Answered 6 of 20 problems correctly, placed 67th out of 99 teams competing in the USA. Bard Math Circle Team…

  • 2015 Purple Comet

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    Great Results! One of our teams tied for 2nd place in NY State! Source: http://purplecomet.org/welcome/winners/2151#bystate NY Middle School Mixed Teams (13 team(s) participated) •    First Place: Akisivorma (The New York Math Circle) with 10 out of 20 correct. •    Second Place(tie): Decimals Have a Point (Bard College), Anaxagoras (Speyer Legacy School) with 6 out of…

  • Purple Comet at Bard on Friday, April 13

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    The Purple Comet is a team-based middle school math contest (with a high school and a friendly option for parents and math teachers also available). We offered the Purple Comet contest at Bard College on Friday, April 13th, 2018. Results: Team: Van Wyck Team ( Middle School) Team ID: T252478 Contest Level: Middle School Contest Level:…

  • Purple Comet Math Meet to be held on Saturday April 18th

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    This year’s Purple Comet contest will take place on Saturday, April 18th. Sign up now! REGISTER The Purple Comet is a a team-based middle school math competition for students in grades up to the 8th! UPDATE: Tuesday, April 14th – there is still room to register!  For more information visit the Purple Comet tab!

  • Bard College Math Circle To Host the Purple Comet Math Meet for Middle School Students

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    Purple Comet at Bard! This semester, the Bard Math Circle will be hosting the Purple Comet Math Meet for middle school students. Unlike other mathematics competitions at the middle school level, the Purple Comet Math Meet gives students the opportunity to work in teams of up to six. This teamwork gives them valuable experience working…

  • Purple Comet

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      This coming semester, in addition to hosting the AMC 10, we are going to host the Purple Comet Math Meet for middle school students in April. This competition is formatted a little differently from the AMC in that students form into teams of up to six. We plan on having several prep sessions to…

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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