NEW THIS YEAR: We are setting up a “Math Kangaroo” center at Foothills Elementary. Math Kangaroo is an annual international competition for grades 1-12, scheduled for March 15, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Deadline for registering for this competition is December 31, 2011. For more details, click here.
The first Math Circle will take place Wednesday, Sept 21, 2011, 7:30-8:20am in Tri Space area. Please send the completed registration form to the office by that date.
Even this is the first post since December (AUCH!), I figured it is worth putting it here to advertise for our end-of-the-year Math Circle “Smoothy” Social. Yes, we have been meeting every week this semester….
This week’s Math Circle (Wed, 5/18) will be our last meeting until next Fall.
For this last meeting, we are inviting YOU (Math Circle students and parents) to come (this Wed, 7:30-8:20am) for a Math Circle “Smoothy” Social and have some fun revisiting the things our kids learned during this past year as well as plan for the future. Whether your child attended one circle only or every circle this past year, everybody is more than welcomed!
We will not have a full-blown breakfast (like we did last December), but we plan to have fruits & yogurt (which may make great smoothies), so if you would like to bring and share some FRESH fruits (thoroughly washed please!), let me know (ideally) by tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5pm. It’s OK to just show up, even if you don’t have time to grab some fresh fruits along the way … Also, please let us if your child has any allergies to fruits … [Everybody else who is not a Math Circle parent is welcome to come without bringing anything ...]
Just a personal thought about this past year’s amazing experience running the Math Circle. Math is important and is all around us. It is here to stay with your kids for the rest of their lives. We all hope our kids develop a positive attitude towards it early on (that is now!). We understand that each child has different perceptions and needs when it comes to Math, and that makes it challenging to strike the right tone that fits everybody in a classroom environment, or even in a Math Circle. But the fundamental belief remains: the only way to find the beauty of the language of math is to accept it with its rigor and connect to it as a very personal experience.
If our Math Circle helped provide this kind of experience even by a tiny bit, but especially if it did not, Natalia and I would like to know. We are planning to have an even richer and more personalized experience next year, so your thoughts on this are also more than welcomed.
Please join us celebrate the end of the first year-long Math Circle at Foothills!
Natalia Brunton & Radu Cascaval
Today we talked about probability and the Galton machine! Read more in the Dec 8 chronicle…
Our last circle this Fall will take place on Dec 15 at 7:30-8:20 am, and we plan to have a Holiday Breakfast Party. All parents and siblings of Math Circle students are invited!
Please join us for a Holiday Breakfast during our last Math Circle this semester. Breakfast will take place on Wednesday, Dec 15, from 7:30 to 8:20 a.m. (during our regular Math Circle time slot). We want to invite all parents of the currently registered Math Circle students as well as siblings and of course the students.
We will provide hot whole wheat pancakes. Please help us make this event successful by contributing one of the following items. All items should be washed and packaged properly to avoid any contact with possible contaminates. School policy requires all items to be nut and fish free.
- 100% maple syrup without high fructose corn syrup
- honey
- Breakfast sausages
- (Gluten-free) Banana bread (Birgit volunteered for this item)
- Orange & Apple Juice
- Grapes
- Cantaloupe
- Berries (strawberries. raspberries, blueberries)
- Paper plates and cups
We are looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
Thank you!
Natalia & Radu
The Math Circle will continue during Spring 2011! We are opening it to 2nd graders, by creating specific activities geared for 2-3 grades and 4-5 grades separately! If your child is not already a member of the Math Circle and would like to join for the Spring, please download the registration form, fill it out and return it to the office.
REGISTRATION FORM (PDF): MathCircleSp11.pdf
(If you registered for Fall 2010, you DO NOT NEED to re-register!)
The Math Night was a huge success, and Math Circle was proud to be part of it. Many many thanks for Lillian Buescher for organizing this amazing event!!!
