From Las Noticias del 13–19 febrero, 2013:

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.

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 a bowl) to a visual representation of a statistical distribution using a smaller version of the game Plinko from The Price is Right. I was thoroughly entertained and informed. There’s so much to math that lends itself to beautiful things and unique interpretations, this museum does that well. If you ever have the opportunity to go see it, I highly recommend it. It’s still a new museum so I expect more exhibits will be on their way.

If you want a virtual tour of the place check out this link

http://www.businessinsider.com/museum-of-math-in-manhattan-2012-12?op=1

For information about the Museum of Math and their programs, check out their website http://momath.org/

For now, I’m FREEZING! I’m going to read a math book and make a mug of hot cocoa. Stay warm and we’ll see you soon!

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!

‎”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

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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!

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 (teachers – please check My Learning Plan). This Bard Math Circle and Ulster BOCES partnership will continue this year, and we’ll announce the first activities of the Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle here.

The New York Math Circle has also invited local teachers to participate in their Math Teachers’ Summer Workshop at Bard College, which recently completed its 4th annual program.

The text of the Daily Freeman announcement is below.

ON THE MOVE: Week of Aug. 20, 2012

Lauren Rose, associate professor of mathematics at Bard College, received funding from the American Institute of Mathematics to bring a team of educators to the institute’s intensive weeklong program, “How to Run a Math Teachers’ Circle Workshop,” in Washington, D.C., this past July. Rose’s team comprises Jeff Suzuki (former Bard math professor and mathematician from Brooklyn College); Beth Goldberg (Bard Master of Arts in Teaching alumna and middle school teacher at the Linden Avenue Middle School, Red Hook); Sheila Shaffer (middle school teacher at Bailey Middle School, Kingston) and Dana Fulmer (administrator at the Ulster County BOCES).

Experience gained through the workshop enabled Rose and her team to launch The Mid-Hudson Math Teachers’ Circle, which strives to improve mathematics education in local middle schools by hosting bimonthly Math Teachers’ Circles throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley.

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
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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 for high school students) and the second is more geared toward math majors.

Below is a press release, followed by email announcements of the two talks.  Please forward widely to students, colleagues and community members, and print out and post the attached flyer.

Thanks,

Lauren

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BARD COLLEGE MATH DEPARTMENT HOSTS LECTURE ON MATHEMATICS IN THE GAME OF SET®

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—On Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College’s department of mathematics hosts a talk by guest speaker Elizabeth McMahon, professor of mathematics at Lafayette College. McMahon will deliver the lecture, “Game, SET®, Math! Mathematics in the Game of SET®.” This event, intended for a general audience, is free and open to the public.

The card game SET® is a popular award-winning game played with a special deck of 81 cards. Through combinatorics, probability, linear algebra, and geometry, a player can learn a lot about the game. In this talk, McMahon will explore some of the things we can learn about the game by looking at the mathematics behind it. Furthermore, by using the game to help with visualization, this lecture also explores how the game of SET® can deepen one’s understanding of mathematics. To learn more about the game or to practice playing before the talk, go to www.setgame.com for the rules and a Daily Puzzle.

Dr. Elizabeth McMahon is Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College. She earned an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, an M.S. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally trained in non-commutative ring theory, her current research interests are in combinatorics, finite geometry, and Cayley graphs. She has held visiting positions at numerous institutions, including the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, U.K. and the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. She has been recognized for her teaching through several awards, including the James P. Crawford EPADEL Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2005.

	Game, SET, Math! Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:30 p.m., Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A lecture by Elizabeth McMahon Lafayette College The card game SET is an award-winning, addictive game played with a special deck of 81 cards. We can learn a lot about the game through combinatorics, probability, linear algebra and geometry.  In this talk, we will explore some of the things we can learn about the game by looking at the mathematics behind it, and we’ll also see that you can learn more about mathematics using the game to help with visualization.  If you would like some practice with the game before the talk, go to www.setgame.com for the rules and a Daily Puzzle. Dr. Elizabeth McMahon is Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College. She earned an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, an M.S. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally trained in non-commutative ring theory, her current research interests are in combinatorics, finite geometry, and Cayley graphs. She has held visiting positions at numerous institutions, including the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, UK and the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. She has been recognized for her teaching through several awards, including the James P. Crawford EPADEL Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2005.  This event, intended for a general audience, is free and open to the public. For more information: contact Lauren Roser rose@bard.edu. Sponsor(s): Mathematics Program and Bard Math Circle.
	Using SET to Explore Affine Geometry Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:30 p.m., Hegeman 308 A lecture by Elizabeth McMahon Lafayette College The cards in the game of SET are an excellent model for the finite affine geometry AG(4,3).  We will explore how to use the game to visualize the structure of the geometry.  We will focus on complete caps, which correspond to largest possible collections of cards with no sets. Win money at glory casino online bd . Glory casino changes lives. There is an interesting structure to these caps, and even more, the geometry can be partitioned into disjoint complete caps together with a single point closely related to the caps. For more information: contact Lauren Rose rose@bard.edu. Sponsor(s): Mathematics Program.