Fayetteville Math Circle
Showing kids that math can be fun!
Follow up to April’s Circle
Thanks again to Dr. Andy Raich for today's circle! The kids got to play with geometric and harmonic series, along with some challenge problems. If you want to grow your own harmonic series, the calculator we used is available on scratch....
April’s Meeting: An Excursion into Recursion: Sums and Sequences on a Saturday – Saturday April 14
April’s Meeting: An Excursion into Recursion: Sums and Sequences on a Saturday
February Meeting Sat – Feb 24 – Zometools!!
It's been a bit since we've had a math circle, so perhaps it's time we get a chance to play around again, this time with more geometry!!! Join us Saturday, February 24th, 2018 for a Zometools day. 2:00PM at the Walmart Reading Room at the Fayetteville Public Library.
November 4 – Remainder Math
Mathematicians often find very useful structure in simplifications of harder problems. When we calculate using fractions, we can often split our problems into questions about the whole part and the fractional part of the number. Modular arithmetic was born in this...
Knots and Braids – Saturday October 14th
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BraidWord.html Mathematicians study all kinds of crazy things and often we end up codifying something humans have already discovered in art and craft. This month, we'll look at the mathematical underpinnings of knotting and study the idea...
April Meeting – Symmetry part 2 – April 8
http://world.mathigon.org/Polygons_and_Polyhedra Last month we looked at the frieze groups, the collection of symmetries of an infinitely long strip. This month we'll expand on those ideas to look into the wallpaper groups, the collections of symmetries of a complete,...
March Meeting – Symmetry – Saturday March 11
Mathematicians spend a lot of time trying to understand the foundational structure of things. Often objects that look very different actually have similar descriptions or behaviors that allow us to study them at the same time. It turns out that geometric patterns...
February Meeting: Card tricks
All math is magic. Let's actually make that happen. Persi Diagonis and Ron Graham have an excellent book on math based magic ("Magical Mathematics"). We'll take a look at one of their card tricks and see if we can figure out how it works. Saturday, February 4th at 2pm...
November Meeting: Random Games (Sat 11/5)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Game_Theory_Strategic_Social_Alternatives.jpg#filelinks In October, we discussed some of the strategies one might use for determined games, like tic-tac-toe, checkers, chess, or go. This month, we'll take a look at games...
October Meeting: Game Theory (part 1), October 1
Game Theory, part 1 From xkcd: http://xkcd.com/832/ Hello, everyone! We're starting out the new year with a look at the theory of games. How do we understand them? How do we characterize the best strategy? This month we'll focus on determined games; games without any...