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Date:
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Speaker
Affiliation
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Topic
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Notes
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September 15, 2010
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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Who left all those lockers open?
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September 22, 2010
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Alon Amit
Facebook
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Four Points, Two Distances
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September 29, 2010
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Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College
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Solving Problems in Plane Geometry 1:
Reflection Does It!
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October 6, 2010
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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Solving Problems in Plane Geometry 1.5:
Reflect and Reflect Again
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Same handout as last time.
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October 13, 2010
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Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College
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Solving Problems in Plane Geometry 2:
Transformations In the Plane
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October 20, 2010
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Paul Zeitz,
University of San Francisco
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Mathematical Games
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Homework: Problem 7 - Puppies and Kittens
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October 27, 2010
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Paul Zeitz,
University of San Francisco
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Mathematical Games, Part 2
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Same handout as last time.
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November 3, 2010
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Paul Zeitz,
University of San Francisco
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Mathematical Games, Part 3
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November 10, 2010
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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Math Auction
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November 17, 2010
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AMC-8 Math Contest
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2010 Brochure
Letter to Parents
Practice Problems
More practice problems can be found at the AMC website
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November 24, 2010
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No Math Circle
Thanksgiving
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December 1, 2010
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Joshua Zucker
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The Mad Veterinarian and Other Invariants
Part 1
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Things to think about for next time:
Problem #9 -- box splitting.
Also problem #12 cup flipping -- we talked about two and four cups, but what about other starting numbers of cups arranged in a circle?
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December 8, 2010
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Joshua Zucker
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The Mad Veterinarian and Other Invariants
Part 2
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December 15, 2010
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Ravi Vakil,
Stanford University
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The Unexpected Golden Mean
in Mathematics and Nature
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January 12, 2011
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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The Shape of Space Part 1
Tic Tac Toe on the Torus
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January 19, 2011
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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The Shape of Space Part 2
Klein bottles and 3 dimensional spaces
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January 26, 2011
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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The Shape of Space Part 3
Classification of surfaces
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February 2, 2011
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Dave Auckly
MSRI
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Spherical Triangles Take Flight
Part 1
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Tuesday
January 8, 2011
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Meghan Peck
Dominican University
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AMC-10/12 Math Contest
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Brochure with practice problems
Additional practice problems are on the AMC website.
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February 9, 2011
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Dave Auckly
MSRI
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Spherical Triangles Take Flight
Part 2
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February 16, 2011
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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Math Auction
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Bay Area Math Olympiad (BAMO)
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Sample problems
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February 23, 2011
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NO MATH CIRCLE
Ski Week
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March 2, 2011
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Joshua Zucker
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Graph Labeling and Digit Sums
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March 9, 2011
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Joshua Zucker
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Digit Sums and Other Adventures
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March 16, 2011
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Ted Courant
Bentley School
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Dots and Boxes: a Game of Double-Crosses
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March 23, 2011
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Ted Courant
Bentley School
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March 30, 2011
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Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
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Probability, Part 1
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For next time, think about problems 4 (Love Triangle) and 5 (Die Throws) on page 2 of the handout, and problems 1 (Card Deck) and 10 (What a Loser!) on pages 2 and 4. (Also problem 12 -- the St. Petersburg Paradox -- looks fun.)
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April 6, 2011
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Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
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Probability, Part 2
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Simulation of the St. Petersburg Paradox
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April 13, 2011
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NO MATH CIRCLE
Spring Break
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April 20, 2011
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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Pigeonhole Principle
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April 27, 2011
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Maia Averett
Mills College
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Mathematics of Doodling
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May 4, 2011
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Alon Amit
Facebook
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Graphs and Number Theory
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May 11, 2011
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Dana Paquin
Stanford University
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Pick's Theorem and Farey Sequences and Ford Circles
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Two proofs of Pick's Theorem
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May 18, 2011
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Linda Green
Dominican University
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A Math Dash with Themes from Number Theory
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