Math Circle Topics for Fall 2016

by | Oct 14, 2016 | Projects

Tuesday October 18:   KenKen and related arithmetic puzzles! Tuesday October 25: Squirrel Girl and applied dactylonomy! Tuesday November 1: Chess is a puzzle! ALREADY DONE: September 27: The game of penny jumping October 4: Logic...

February 23, 2016: our project

by | Mar 1, 2016 | Projects

We studied an interesting game using 0’s and 1’s: we made some discoveries: it seems that if you start with an odd number of 1’s, the game ends with a 1; but if you start with an even number of 1’s, the game ends with a 0. Do you agree? Here is...

Art&Math Feb.24, 2015

by | Feb 24, 2015 | Projects

Hi, our Math Circle project for February 24, 2015 is on Art and Mathematics. Here are two links concerning area that we might find useful: http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/math/algebra/AS1/RefARea.htm http://www.mathsisfun.com/area.html...

MC (April 1, 2014)

by | Mar 29, 2014 | Projects

Our final Math Circle of this semester is April 1 (no fooling!). It is on rubber-band braiding and links to knots. (some experts are coming to demonstrate) Here is a link to a project sheet:...