Upstate New York Math Team

Vintage map of New York State

The Bard Math Circle partners with the Upstate New York Math Team to encourage mathematical problem solving at the pre-college level. The Bard Math Circle focuses on middle school students in the Mid-Hudson Valley. The Upstate New York Math Team, which focuses on high school students across Upstate New York, welcomes Bard Math Circle alumni.

The Upstate New York Math Team offers math team trainings, math talks, and other events, leading up to participation in the annual ARML contest in early June of each year. For more information, please visit the Upstate New York Math Team webpage!

BARD MATH CIRCLE

Making Math Fun

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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