Fayetteville Math Circle

Our next meeting will be Saturday, November 1st at 2pm at the Fayetteville Public Library.  Dr. Andrew Raich from the University of Arkansas Department of Mathematical Sciences will lead a session on counting, combinatorics and probability and all the magic that comes...

During our October meeting we made and threw dozens (hundreds?) of paper airplanes! There are far too many resources out there, both in books and on the web, but a few that we used are listed below: http://www.ncgraphicarts.com/ryan/other/planes.htm Paper Airplane...

Everyone knows the trick for determining whether a number is divisible by 9, but this is just a baby case of an old trick called Casting out nines that people have long used to double check their arithmetic. Casting out nines won't guarantee that you did the problem...

This Saturday's meeting will be about 3-dimensional shapes. We'll play around with Zometools and see what we can create! We'll see you Saturday at 2pm at the Fayetteville Public Library.

Since Saturday, May 3 is a FPS snow make-up day, we've moved the May meeting to the 17th. This will be the last meeting of the Fayetteville Math circle for this school year. We'll start back up at the beginning of September. Look for an advertisement for the May 17...

image from wikipedia Zhuopei Hu will lead the next meeting of the Fayetteville Math Circle on Saturday, April 5 at 2pm at the Fayetteville Public Library. This months meeting is all about games! Sprouts, Nim, Hex. Come prepared to play!

Dr. Rutherford's exploration of area was a huge hit. For those of you who couldn't make it, we're posting the materials from the day's session here. See if you can rearrange the stars! MathCircle EquilateralFill Example3Fill RegOctagonFill StarEx3 StarEx5 We also have...

Saturday, March 1, 2014 will be the next meeting of the Fayetteville Math Circle. We'll again meet at the Fayetteville Public Library at 2pm. This time come to the math circle wearing your visual/spatial thinking caps. We will be looking at the idea of area and how we...

Saturday February 1 we had our first math circle meeting of the new year. Turnout was around 12 kids and we had an excellent session. The kids continued the discussion from the November meeting about patterns that occur for square numbers, and we ended with the...

February Math Circle Meeting Saturday, February 2 p.m. Fayetteville Public Library Counting squares and triangles Speaker: Edmund Harriss As you count and draw you might find shapes. Squares and triangles can both come up. The square when we multiply a number by...