I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...
Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - On November 12th, a group of eleven great math minds, members of the East Brunswick High School Math Circle, arrived in Boston and participated in the HMMT (Harvard MIT Math ...
Navajo women instill the love for patterns and math into children at an early age. From intricate numerical systems to astronomical observatories, from suspension bridges to geometrical ornaments and ...
Ethan Eastwood is graduating from J.L. Isley High School in Halifax this year — at age 16. What’s Ethan’s secret? Participating in Nova Scotia Math Circles, a mathematics outreach program based out of ...
Michelle Manes has taught math in almost every setting. She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. But eventually, she ...