Spring 2017
- The Beginners Group and the Elementary Group meet on Saturdays from 9:00 – 10:00.
- The Intermediate Group and the Advanced Group meet on Saturdays from 10:30 – 12:00.
- All groups meet in Phillips Hall rooms 206 and 208.
This schedule is tentative and may be changed.
Date |
Beginners Group Topic |
Elementary Group Topic |
Intermediate Group Topic |
Advanced Group Topic |
Saturday, Jan 14 (basketball Saturday) |
Polygons |
Coounting, Part 1 |
Line Segments |
The Game of Hackenbush, Part 1 |
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Saturday, Jan 21 |
Circles |
Counting, Part 2 |
Measuring Angles |
Hackenbush and Other Games |
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Saturday, Jan 28 |
Triangles |
Counting, Part 3 |
Triangle Inequality |
Patterns in Pascal’s Triangle |
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Saturday, Feb 4 |
Math Circle will not meet. |
Saturday, Feb 11 |
Triangular Numbers |
Greatest Common Factors, Part 1 |
A Taste of Moscow |
Groups and Symmetry, Part 1 |
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Saturday, Feb 18 (basketball Saturday) |
Games and Puzzles |
Greatest Common Factors, Part 2 |
A Taste of Moscow, Part 2 |
Groups and Symmetry, Part 2 |
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Saturday, Feb 25 |
Counting |
Math Auction |
Counting, Part 1 |
Groups and Symmetry, Part 3: 15-Puzzle and Rubik’s Cube |
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Saturday, March 4 |
Math Circle will not meet. |
Saturday, March 11 |
Anagrams |
The Game of Spot It |
Counting, Part 2 |
Problem Solving Strategies |
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Saturday, March 18 |
Cryptarithms |
Lattice Squares and Triangles |
Proofs |
Lattice Polygons and Pick’s Theorem |
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Saturday, March 25 |
More Crytarithms |
Tessellations |
More Proofs |
Farey Sequences and Ford Circles |
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Saturday, Apr 1 SPRING BREAK – No Math Circle |
Saturday, April 8 |
Function Machines |
Geometric Constructions, see this source for some examples |
Xorks and Yorks and Other Problems |
Matrices Part 1 |
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Saturday, April 15 |
GeoRobot |
Math Dash |
Classic Puzzlers |
Matrices Part 2 |
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Saturday, Apr 22 |
Science Expo at UNC – 11:00 – 4:00 outside of Phillips Hall |
Saturday, April 29 |
Julia Robinson Math Festival 10:00 – 1:00 in the Carolina Union Great Hall |
Many of the problems we choose come from books in the MSRI-AMS Mathematical Circles Library.
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