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 ...

It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday at Cal State Fullerton and students are revved up. It’s Math Circle time. Math Circle is a Saturday program for students in second through 12th grade, most of whom are ...

STAMFORD — A year ago, when Katy Myers started researching the possibility of a “math circle” in Fairfield County, she didn’t know if it would be popular—but it was something she knew she needed to do ...

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 ...

Dynamic circles: Math circles have gained popularity in the last 15 years as an academic enrichment program. They team students with professional mathematicians to work together on problems. Donna ...

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 ...

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 ...