Bard Math Circle

Bard Math Circle

The Bard Math Circle provides a supportive environment for children who are self-proclaimed math nerds to explore their passion for the subject. We hope to teach children something new every time we provide a service, and to introduce them to a pre-college community to whom they can relate. Math is perceived as a hard subject and thus hard to love by the general public. However, we hope to step into these children’s lives and show them math has a lot more beauty to it than what their schools may have time to express. By appreciating this beauty we become part of the math circle.

During the COVID pandemic we went remote. We are now in the process of reconnecting in person, while retaining the best of our remote programming. On weekends, we offer an assortment of enrichment and contest prep workshops. In the summer, we provide a weeklong day program, called CAMP. We host mathematics competitions including: AMC 8/10/12 and Purple Comet. We have also expanded our tutoring network with more tutors in order to accommodate the growing need of math help at home. To ensure that each potential student has an equal opportunity to take advantage of this service, we provide a free or reduced price on tutoring for those in need. In addition, we have begun to use our social media to increasingly emphasize the roles of mathematicians who are part of marginalized groups. Visit our website at https://bardmathcircle.org/ for more information.

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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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