Summer Camps: AwesomeMath

One of the newest but most distinguished summer camps for young problem solvers is AwesomeMath.  AwesomeMath draws faculty and students from around the country and around the world.  This year AwesomeMath will occur in two separate sessions on two campuses, our own UTD campus and the University of California, Santa Cruz. We will be providing [...]

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Fall 2008 Recap

This last semester marked some significant milestones in the first 3 years of the Metroplex Math Circle hosted by the University of Texas at Dallas. Participation Attendance for all Math Circle sessions was particularly high with at least 50 students, parents and teachers participating in each session.  This compares very favorably with many other math [...]

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Summer Camps: Mathcamp

High school students may want to consider the Canada/USA Mathcamp. Mathcamp 2009 will be held at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, from July 5 to August 9. Canada/USA Mathcamp is an intensive five-week-long summer program for high-school students interested in mathematics. Our goals are: To inspire and motivate these students by introducing [...]

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Summer Camps: MathPath

Another option for students 11-14 is MathPath. MathPath 2009 will take place from June 28 (student arrival date) to July 26 (departure date) at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. MathPath offers students of middle school age who are extremely talented in mathematics the summer opportunity to learn and develop at a pace and to a [...]

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Summer Camps: PROMYS

Another alternative for summer mathematics camps is Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) held at Boston University. PROMYS is a challenging program designed to encourage ambitious high school students to explore the creative world of mathematics. Each summer, approximately 60 high school students from around the country gather on the campus of Boston University [...]

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Summer Camps: RSI

One of the more elite camps for high school juniors is the Research Science Institute held at MIT.  Following is a brief description of the program. Each summer approximately 75 high school students gather for six of the most stimulating weeks of their young lives. Selected from the United States and other nations, these students [...]

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Summer Camps: HCSSiM

It may be freezing outside, but ironically now is the best time to be considering mathematical and science camps for next summer.  We will try to profile many of them before the next semester of Metroplex Math Circle finishing Dr. Andreescu’s own highly regarded program, AwesomeMath.  Following is information about HCSSiM: The Hampshire College Summer [...]

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Mathematic Benchmarks: Discrete Math

Achieve and the Dana Center at UT Austin have developed a series of benchmarks for high school students to succeed in post secondary education.  The entire list may be of interest, but the benchmark for Discrete Mathematics covers many of the topics that students experience only through Math Circle.  Here is the description of the [...]

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Dr. Tanya Khovanova Recap

Our last lecture of fall 2008 by Dr. Tanya Khovanova reprised many of the themes that made this semester memorable. The very first lecture by Richard Rusczyk emphasized the importance of playfulness to encourage a deep understanding in problem solvers.  Many of our speakers continued this theme, and Dr. Khovanova’s first lecture on binary numbers [...]

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Spring Meeting Dates Announced

As we look forward to our last lecture of the 2008 fall semester with Dr. Tanya Khovanova, I am happy to announce the dates for Metroplex Math Circle spring 2009: Jan. 17, 24, 31 Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28 March 7, 14, 28 April 4, 18 Dr. Andreescu is already lining up some very interesting [...]

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