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  • New! Documents page.

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    I’ve just added a Documents page. Right now, you can download problem sets for the math circle we run in Kingston. I’ll add additional documents later.To visit the page, just click on the documents tab up there in the toolbard.

  • Museum of Math : First Impressions

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    I have never been so hyper coming from a museum in my life! Today I went to the new Museum of Math in New York City and boy did I have a blast. The exhibits lend themselves to a variety of topics ranging from Emily Noether’s work on noncommutative algebra (simplified with a bird in…

  • Truncated Icosahedron in Madison Square Park

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    Look! Its a truncated icosahedron…aka a soccer ball! There are 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. Alan House took this photo December 11th in Madison Square Park. Do you know what is near there? That’s right! The Museum of Mathematics! I can’t wait to go there!

  • Math Scene Investigation : Hudson Valley

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    ‎”In the mathematics outreach system, bland teaching offenses are considered especially heinous. In the Hudson Valley, the dedicated instructors who investigate these vicious felonies are members of a elite squad known as the Bard Math Circle. These are their stories.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8lDYrvTILc

  • Tutoring in the Bard Prison Initiative

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    The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) is in need of volunteers to serve as tutors for our math students.  Tutors would commit to traveling to the facility on a weekly basis for the semester.  It is generally a four hour commitment, factoring in travel time and the two hour session, as well as going through the…

  • USA Mathematical Talent Search

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    This year’s problems for the USA Mathematical Talent Search are available, and the round 1 problems are due on October 22, 2012. This contest is interesting in that students send in full explanations, rather than just the numerical answers. Good luck to any Bard Math Circle students who compete!

  • The Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle

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    New this year is the Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle. Announced in the Kingston Daily Freeman, the Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle will extend the Bard Math Circle’s work with local math teachers. Over the last year, math teachers have been able to receive continuing education credit for their participation in the Bard Math Circle library program…

  • Mathematics in the Game of SET®

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    Here’s a message from Bard Math Professor Lauren Rose. Lauren is the co-founder and faculty co-advisor of the Bard Math Circle. – Japheth___________________________________________Dear Colleagues and friends, The Bard Math Dept/Bard Math Circle presents two talks about the card game SET®, next Wed evening and Thursday afternoon.  The first talk is for a general audience (appropriate…

  • Did you know you could tessellate a car?

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    I thought that this VW Bug was really cool when I found it on Facebook. Then I realized it was a tessellation! If you don’t know what a Tessellation is you should come to one of our upcoming Math Circles! Jeannette designed a really cool activity about tessellations.

  • Deltoidal Hexecontahedron

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    Japheth mentioned a few weeks ago MoMath’s “Math Monday” series. I was looking for activities to do this semester with our Circles, and I found this activity. There are many decks in my house that haven’t been used in years, so I decided to try one for myself. This is my attempt a deltoidal hexecontahedron. (deltoid = kite,…

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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