Spring 2024

Math circle will continue in Spring 2024 on UNC campus, on alternating Saturdays.

  • The Mobius Noodles Group will meet from 10:30 – 11:30 in Phillips 206 or outside in front of Phillips.
  • There will be two Beginners Groups this Spring 2024.
    • Beginners Group 9 will meet from 9:00 – 10:00 in Phillips 206 or outside in front of Phillips.
    • Beginners Group 10:30 will meet from 10:30 – 11:30 in Phillips 208 or outside in front of Phillips.
  • The Elementary Group will meet from 9:00 – 10:00 in Phillips 208.
  • The Intermediate Group will meet from 10:30 – 12:00 in Phillips 224
  • The Advanced Group will meet from 10:30 – 12:00 in  Phillips 220.
  • Details about classes will be sent out in google group emails.

This schedule is tentative and may be changed.

DateMobius Noodles and Beginners Group TopicElementary Group TopicIntermediate Group TopicAdvanced Group Topic
Sat., Jan 20Random Math Circle (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Breaking Down Numbers (Dilip Barman)Two is the Best Number, Part 1 (Linda Green) Invariants (Linda Green)Conditional Probability and
Bayes’ Theorem
(David Yavenditti and Will Davis)
Sat., Jan 27
Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Feb 3Skewed RNGs for Fair Games
(Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Partitions (Dilip Barman)
Two is the Best Number, Part 2 (Linda Green)Combinatorics, Part 1
(Linda Green)
Mathematical Paradoxes (Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Feb 10Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Feb 17 Polylinks: Circles and Triangles IN SPACE (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Counting Salad Bar Choices (Dilip Barman)Two is the Best Number, Part 3 (Linda Green)Combinatorics, Part 2
(Linda Green)
P-adic Numbers (David Yavenditti)
Sat., Feb 24Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Mar 2Pi is Calculus! (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Triangular Numbers and the Handshake Problem (Dilip Barman)Graphs and the Number 2 (Linda Green)Mathematical Induction (Linda Green) An Introduction to
p-adic Numbers, Part 2
(Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Mar 9Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Mar 16Mathemalchemy (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Happy Pi Day! (Dilip Barman)Logic Puzzles (Dorian Varney and Aynsley Szczesniak)Mad Veterinarian Puzzles (Dorian Varney and Aynsley Szczesniak)Mass
Point Geometry, Part 1
 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Mar 23Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Mar 30This Knot Is Not a Knot (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Circle Constructions (Dilip Barman)Combinatorics, Part 1(Linda Green)Tiling and Induction (Linda Green)Mass Point Geometry, Part 2 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Apr 6SCIENCE EXPO TODAY ON UNC CAMPUS! Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Apr 13Johnson Solids, Nets, and Kirigami (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Perfect Rulers: How to Measure (Dilip Barman)Combinatorics, Part 2 (Linda Green)Tiling and Coloring
(Linda Green)
Graph Algorithms and the Traveling Salesman  (David Yavenditti and Will Davis)
Sat., Apr 20.Math Circle will not meet
Sat., Apr 27Math Lands and Math Ambassadors: Year-End Celebration (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) The Game of Nim (Dilip Barman)Combinatorics, Part 3 (Linda Green)Grid Power and Iterative Paper Folding (Linda Green)Egyption Fractions (Matt Crawford)
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Many of the problems we choose come from books in the MSRI-AMS Mathematical Circles Library.