Category: A Math Circle Journey
Stories from math circles.
A math circle is a social structure where participants engage in the depths and intricacies of mathematical thinking, propagate the culture of doing mathematics, and create knowledge. To reach these goals, participants partake in problem-solving, problem-posing, mathematical modeling, the practice of art, and philosophical discourse.
Making Rice & Understanding Circumference
Rice and circumference go together? Why, yes, they do! Yesterday, I was playing with the Going in Circles spark from the Inspired by Calculus class with my online class and my children. We did this activity. We had so much…
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Poetry and Graphing Lines
I recently struggled to understand limits in Calculus. One math problem in particular made me really unsure of what I was doing. I ended up asking Maria to help me understand the limit as x approached infinity. As she and…
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One Family’s Math Story
Math has been an interesting journey at our house. We homeschool and my oldest daughter taught herself to read at about 4 ½. Learning came really easily to her and she loved it! She loved all the school things that…
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High School Math Circle
Hi it’s Shelley again! I started an online math circle for kids about 8th-12th grade back in September. It has been a learning challenge!. My hope is to share what we did, what worked and what didn’t work so well…
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