Math Circe Profile: Berkeley

It might be interesting to look at several of the thriving Math Circles around the country.  The Berkeley Math Circle has an excellent site with monthly contest problems available for download.  Berkeley is also an excellent example of the positive impact that a Math Circle can have on its community.  Here is some information from [...]

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Chengde Feng – Angles and Areas – November 1

Chengde Feng, an instructor at AwesomeMath, father of Zuming Feng and a good friend of the Metroplex Math Circle will come to Dallas this Saturday to lecture on “Angles and Areas.”  To help us prepare, Mr. Feng has sent along this list of facts that every Middle School Student should know. Concepts You Need to [...]

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MEANT Math Contest November 15th

The Malayalee Engineers Association of North Texas is sponsoring a math contest.  To support this initiative, Metroplex Math Circle will suspend its normal November 15th meeting allowing more students to participate. When MEANT last held a contest one of their winners was a young Zach Abel.  Zach went on to great success at the USAMO [...]

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Nova: Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Thank you Mahender Nelakonda for catching the following announcement. Next on NOVA: “Hunting the Hidden Dimension” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fractals/ Tuesday, October 28 at 7 p.m. CDT (on KERA) (Check your local listings as dates and times may vary.  Broadcast in high definition where available.) You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are [...]

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“Hairy Circles” – Recap

Dr. Paul Stanford departed from our recent lectures on applied mathematics and contest preparation to give our students a glimpse into the fascinating world of pure mathematics.  Dr. Stanford is particularly skilled at teaching deep ideas without the need to resort to complex algebra, I’ll attempt in this recap to do his lecture a small [...]

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AOPS: MIT Admissions Transcript

Our friends at Art of Problem solving hosted a Math Jam interview with Matt McGann, Associate Director of Admissions and Kiran Kedlaya, Associate Professor of Mathematics at MIT.  Here are a couple of highlights and a link to the full transcript: Q:  What is MIT’s admission rate? A: Last year, if memory serves, we received [...]

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Happy October 23

What is so special about October “23″? Well, as Dr. Paul Stanford has proven in his lectures there are interesting facts about every number! Here is what he has to say about the number 23. If you have any other facts to add or if you see any mistakes in my transcription of Dr. Stanford’s [...]

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AOPS: MIT Admissions Math Jam

Our good friends at the Art of Problem Solving are hosting a Math Jam this Thursday with representatives from MIT to discuss their math programs and what they are looking for in applicants. MIT has done a particularly good job in recent years of recruiting top math talent including friends of MMC like Ivan Borsenco. [...]

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Dr. Paul Stanford – “Hairy Circles, and Numbers from Nowhere!”

Dr. Paul Stanford is one of our favorite speakers at Metroplex Math Circle, famous for his book of fascinating facts about all the numbers from 0 to 100. If you are curious about the title of his lecture you will have to attend to satisfy your curiosity! But to give you a better sense of [...]

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AMC Test Preparation – Recap

The October 18th Math Circle was very special.  Dr. Andreescu selected 15 problems to teach specific problem solving strategies to the students.  Some of the problems involved numbers small enough to be solved in a brute force method, but Dr. Andreescu explained a principal underlying each of the problems which would allow them to be [...]

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