Math Circle Calendar
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Spring 2010 Program:January, February, March, April, May.
Previous Programs:
Fall 2009 Program: September, October, November, December.
Spring 2009 Program: January, February, March, April, May.
Fall 2008 Program: September, October, November, December.
Spring 2008 Program: January, February, March, April, May.
Fall 2007 Program: September, October, November, December.
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Patten University Student Session |
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Patten University 2nd Student Session |
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February 4 |
Green Students: Pick's Theorem |
Purple Students: Building Blocks |
Teachers: Mind Exercises |
Patten: |
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Jon Yaggie |
Emily McCullogh |
Scott Baldridge |
Josh Zucker |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
Pick's Theorem Worksheet (.pdf) |
Julia Robinson Handout (.pdf) |
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February 11 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
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Patten: |
| Instructors: |
Jon Yaggie |
Emily McCullogh |
Mattias Beck |
Josh Zucker |
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February 18 |
Green Students: Building Blocks |
Purple Students: Pythagorean triples |
Teachers: Divisibility tests |
Patten: |
| Instructors: |
Emily McCullogh |
Sue VanHattum |
Mattias Beck |
Josh Zucker |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
Julia Robinson Handout (.pdf) |
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February 25 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Emily McCullogh |
Sue VanHattum |
Dave Auckly |
Josh Zucker |
David Bangor |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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March 4 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Jon Yaggie |
Sue VanHattum |
Emily McCullogh |
David Bangor |
Josh Zucker |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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March 11 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
David Bangor |
Ted Courant |
Jon Yaggie |
Josh Zucker |
Emily McCullogh |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Triangle Centers and Point Masses (.pdf) |
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March 18 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: -- NO CLASS-- |
Patten 2: -- NO CLASS-- |
| Instructors: |
Emily McCullogh |
David Bangor |
Josh Zucker |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
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March 25 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Jon Yaggie |
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Josh Zucker |
Emily McCullogh |
David Bangor |
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April 1 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Jon Yaggie |
Josh Zucker |
Sue VanHattum |
David Bangor |
Emily McCullogh |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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April 8 | SPRING | BREAK |
NO MEETING
| Patten: Still Meeting |
Patten 2: Still Meeting |
| Instructors: |
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Emily McCullogh |
Josh Zucker |
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April 15 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Jon Yaggie |
Emily McCullogh |
David Bangor |
Josh Zucker |
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April 22 |
Green Students: Information Theory |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Richard Watson |
David Bangor |
Emily McCullogh |
Jon Yaggie |
Josh Zucker |
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April 29 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: Information Theory |
Teachers: Geometric Constructions |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Josh Zucker |
Richard Watson |
Tom Rike |
Emily McCullogh |
Jon Yaggie |
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May 6 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: Geometric Constructions |
Teachers: Information Theory |
Patten: |
Patten 2: |
| Instructors: |
Emily McCullogh |
Tom Rike |
Richard Watson |
Josh Zucker |
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May 13 | End of | the Year | Party | | |
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Fall 2009 Program Calendar
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September 17 |
Green Students: Rhythms, Factors, and Primes |
Purple Students: Monte Hall Problem |
Teachers: Self-descriptive numbers and sentences |
| Instructors: |
Yvonne Lai |
Emily McCullogh |
Joshua Zucker |
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September 24 |
Green Students:Path Counting and Pascal's Triangle |
Purple Students: Card Tricks, beginning of Base 3 |
Teachers: Knots |
| Instructors: |
Joshua Zucker |
Emily McCullogh |
Brandy Wiegers |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Card Tricks (.pdf) - Tom Davis |
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October 1 |
Green Students: Card Tricks |
Purple Students:Path Counting and Pascal's Triangle |
Teachers: Counting Walks |
| Instructors: |
Emily McCullogh |
Joshua Zucker |
Qiang Wang |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
Card Tricks (.pdf) - Tom Davis |
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October 8 |
Green Students: Criss-Cross |
Purple Students: Counting Walks |
Teachers: Path Counting and Pascal's Triangle |
| Instructors: |
Brandy Wiegers |
Qiang Wang |
Joshua Zucker |
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October 15 |
Green Students: Brains, Information and Mathematics |
Purple Students: Base 3, continuation and completion of Card Trick |
Teachers: Hard Problems |
| Instructors: |
Richard Watson |
Emily McCullogh |
DVD- by request |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Card Tricks (.pdf) - Tom Davis |
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October 22 |
Green Students: Magic Cards- Base 2 |
Purple Students:The Odd and Even game (parity and order of operations) |
Teachers: Brains, Information and Mathematics |
| Instructors: |
Sue VanHattum |
Joshua Zucker |
Richard Watson |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
Magic Cards(.pdf) |
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October 29 |
Green Students: Counting walks |
Purple Students: Brains, Information and Mathematics |
Teachers: Card Tricks (Base 3) |
| Instructors: |
Qiang Wang |
Richard Watson |
Emily McCullogh |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Card Tricks (.pdf) - Tom Davis |
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November 5 |
Green Students: Parity Games |
Purple Students: Cutting a pancake, finding number of regions |
Teachers: Constructions in Geometry |
Patten: Mad Veterinarians (Parity) |
| Instructors: |
Emily McCullogh |
Sue VanHattum |
Tom Rike |
Joshua Zucker |
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November 12 |
Green Students: Towers of Hanoi, Robots in Mazes, & Cyphers |
Purple Students: Constructions in Geometry |
Teachers: Proofs without words. |
Patten: The Splitting Piles Game |
| Instructors: |
Linda Brown Westrick |
Tom Rike |
Matt Beck |
Joshua Zucker |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
Westrick's Classnotes |
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Winter |
Holiday | Winter Activity Book(.pdf)
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Jan 30 |
TEACHER ONLY WORKSHOP |
at SFSU, 9am - 3pm | |
Spring 2009 Program Calendar
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| Dec - Jan |
Winter Holiday |
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Jan 31 |
TEACHER ONLY WORKSHOP |
at MSRI, 9am - 3pm |
Feb 5 |
Green Students: mathematical models of oscillations and synchrony and how this connects to natural and man-made phenomena. |
Purple Students: Bottle Blastoff |
Teachers: polyhedra |
| Instructors: |
Richard Watson |
Jamylle Carter |
Matt Beck |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
Watson's Website - setup for the talk |
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Feb 12 |
Green Students: Bottle Blastoff |
Purple Students: Introduction to Infinity |
Teachers: polyhedra |
| Instructors: |
Jamylle Carter |
Lalit Jain |
Matt Beck |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Introduction to Infinity(.pdf) |
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Feb 19 |
Green Students: Criss Cross |
Purple Students: mathematical models of oscillations and synchrony and how this
connects to natural and man-made phenomena |
Teachers: Bottle Blastoff |
| Instructors: |
Brandy Wiegers |
Richard Watson |
Jamylle Carter |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Watson's Website - setup for the talk |
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Feb 26 |
Green Students: Bottle Blastoff |
Purple Students: Zome-Tastic |
Teachers: The Shape of Space |
| Instructors: |
Jamylle Carter |
Lalit Jain |
Marion Moore |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Zome Intro Class (.pdf) |
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| March 5 |
Green Students: Bottle Blastoff |
Purple Students:The Shape of Space |
Teachers: |
| Instructors: |
Jamylle Carter |
Marion Moore |
Joshua Zucker |
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March 12 |
Green Students: The Shape of Space |
Purple Students:Bottle Blastoff |
Teachers:Non-Euclidean Geometry |
| Instructors: |
Marion Moore |
Jamylle Carter |
Mike Greenberg |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Greenberg_NonEuclidean(.pdf)
Greenberg_NonEuclidean(.docx) |
March 19 |
Green Students: The Wonderful World of Soma Cubes |
Purple Students: Non-Euclidean Geometry |
Teachers: The Shape of Space |
| Instructors: |
Lalit Jain |
Mike Greenberg |
Marion Moore |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
SOMA cubes (.pdf), SOMA cubes (.doc) |
Greenberg_NonEuclidean(.pdf)
Greenberg_NonEuclidean(.docx) |
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March 26 |
Green Students: Non-Euclidean Geometry |
Purple Students: Cryptography |
Teachers: |
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Mike Greenberg |
Hillel Raz |
Matt Kahle |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
Greenberg_NonEuclidean(.pdf)
Greenberg_NonEuclidean(.docx) |
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April 2 |
Green Students: The Young Map Colorer |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: Bottle Blastoff |
| Instructors: |
Jupei Hsiao |
Matt Kahle |
Jamylle Carter |
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| April 9 |
Spring Break - No class | |
| April 16 |
Spring Break - No class | |
April 23 |
Green Students: The Konigsberg Bridge |
Purple Students: Pell's Equation |
Teachers: Buffon's Needle |
| Instructors: |
Jupei Hsiao |
Tom Rike |
Jamylle Carter |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Pell Equations handout (.pdf) |
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April 30 |
Green Students: Hamiltonian Paths and Circuits |
Purple Students: Buffon's Needle |
Teachers: Pell's Equation |
| Instructors: |
Jupei Hsiao |
Jamylle Carter |
Tom Rike |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Pell Equations handout (.pdf) |
May 7 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: mathematical models of oscillations and synchrony and how this connects to natural and man-made phenomena |
| Instructors: |
Lalit Jain |
Jamylle Carter |
Richard Watson |
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May 14 | End of the Year Party |
Fall 2008 Program Calendar
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Sept 18 |
Green Students: Cryptography |
Purple Students: Mathematical Games |
Teachers: Mathematical Games |
| Instructors: |
Hillel Raz |
Alex Wong |
Joshua Zucker |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
September Newsletter |
September Newsletter |
September Newsletter, numbers and games -teachers.pdf |
Sept 25 |
Green Students: Cryptography |
Purple Students: Mathematical Games |
Teachers: Population Dynamics |
| Instructors: |
Hillel Raz |
Joshua Zucker |
Brandy Wiegers |
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Numbers and Games (students) .pdf |
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Oct 2 |
Green Students: Geometry - Area of all Triangles |
Purple Students: Population Dynamics |
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Emily McCullogh |
Brandy Wiegers |
Joshua Zucker |
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Oct 9 |
Green Students:Mathematical Games |
Purple Students: Shortest Paths |
Teachers: Hyperbolic Functions |
| Instructors: |
Joshua Zucker |
Mohamed Omar |
Lalit Jain |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
October Newsletter, Numbers and Games (students) .pdf |
October Newsletter |
October Newsletter |
Oct 16 |
Green Students: Population Dynamics |
Purple Students: Mini Golf Geometry |
Teachers: Fractions and Tilings |
| Instructors: |
Brandy Wiegers |
Hans Christianson |
Joshua Zucker |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Fractions and Tilings Handout (.pdf) |
Oct 23 |
Green Students: The Monte Hall Problem |
Purple Students: Partition Bijections |
Teachers: Pythagorean Music |
| Instructors: |
David Sivakoff |
Chris Berg |
Lalit Jain |
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Oct 30 |
Green Students: Area of Polygons |
Purple Students: Coloring Cubes |
Teachers: |
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Lalit Jain |
Joshua Zucker |
Mat'e Wierdl |
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Nov 6 |
Green Students: Tiling |
Purple Students: Voting Methods |
Teachers: Graph Coloring |
| Instructors: |
Matthew Stamps |
Joshua Zucker |
Matt Beck |
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November Newsletter |
November Newsletter |
November Newsletter, graph coloring handout |
Nov 13 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: Combinatorics: Fun with sequences and series |
Teachers: Sums and Bernoulli Numbers |
| Instructors: |
Joshua Zucker |
Robert Hildebrand |
Tom Rike |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Bernoulli handout(.pdf) |
Nov 20 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: Sums and Bernoulli Numbers |
Teachers: |
| Instructors: |
Joshua Zucker |
Tom Rike |
Matt Beck |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Bernoulli handout(.pdf) |
graph coloring handout (.pdf) |
Spring 2008 Program Calendar
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Feb 4 |
Green Students: Hungry, Hungry Leap Frog |
Purple Students: Cancelled |
Teachers: Codes, Ciphers & Secret Messages |
| Instructors: |
Hillel Raz |
Jana Comstock |
Matt Beck |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
February Newsletter |
February Newsletter |
February Newsletter |
Feb 11 |
Green Students: Defining Dimension |
Purple Students: Knot Theory |
Teachers: Teachers' Circle: Geometry and Geography |
| Instructors: |
Ezra Gouvea |
Jana Comstock |
Tom Davis |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Geography (.pdf) |
Feb 25 |
Green Students: Defining 4-D Shapes |
Purple Students: Four Color Theorem |
Teachers: How Pool Balls Bounce |
| Instructors: |
Yaim Cooper |
Jana Comstock |
Peter Tingley |
Mar 3 |
Green Students: Cryptography |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: Pick's Formula--the Arithmetic of Polygons |
| Instructors: |
Hillel Raz |
Yaim Cooper |
Matt Beck |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
March Newsletter |
March Newsletter |
March Newsletter |
Mar 10 |
Green Students:Cryptography - Cypher Wheels |
Purple Students: Mass Point Geometry |
Teachers: Teachers' Circle Problems to Tease and Teach |
| Instructors: |
Hillel Raz |
Tom Rike |
Tatiana Shubin |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Handout (.doc) |
Mar 17 |
Green Students: |
Purple Students: Cancelled |
Teachers: Mass Point Geometry |
| Instructors: |
Ezra Gouvea |
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Tom Rike |
Apr 7 |
Green Students: The Porridge Portion Problem |
Purple Students: |
Teachers: Mathematics of Origami |
| Instructors: |
Yvonne Lai |
Ezra Gouvea |
Emily Peters |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
April Newsletter |
April Newsletter |
April Newsletter |
Apr 14 |
Green Students: Tiling |
Purple Students:Cancelled |
Teachers: Teachers' Circle: Pigeon Hole Principle |
| Instructors: |
Matt Kahle |
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Joshua Zucker |
| Notes, References, Additional Problems: |
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Pigeon Hole Principle |
Apr 21 |
Green Students: Geometry and Minimization |
Purple Students: Symmetry |
Teachers: The Porridge Portion Problem |
| Instructors: |
Alex Kaiser |
Jonathan Dorfman |
Yvonne Lai |
Apr 28 |
Green Students: Lewis Carroll Symbolic Logic |
Purple Students: |
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Jana Comstock |
Ezra Gouvea |
Yaim Cooper |
May 5 |
Green Students: Tic-Tac-Toe on Mini Spaces |
Purple Students: Buffon's Needle Problem |
Teachers: Teachers' Circle Parking Problem |
| Instructors: |
Yvonne Lai |
Ellen Veomett |
Matt Beck |
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May Newsletter |
Handouts, May Newsletter |
May Newsletter, Session Handout |
May 12 | End of the Year Party | | |
Fall 2007 Program Calendar
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