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 ...

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 ...

On a recent Wednesday evening, 13 fifth- to ninth-grade students from around Marin County gathered in a Dominican University classroom for an after-school activity that didn’t involve sports or the ...

Silva Chang’s Colorado Math Circle recently hosted a Puzzlepalooza competition at the University of Colorado Boulder on December 7. The Colorado Math Circle is an organization directed by Silva Chang ...

For the past 14 years, Nova Scotia Math Circles, an educational outreach program coordinated by Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has helped to inspire Nova Scotian students to ...

Ian MacIntosh is the sort of grade 10 student who waxes poetically about fractals and game theory, and who can calculate square roots by hand. In short: Ian loves math. “I remember playing with a ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...