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Resources
For participants and their parents
To get on the email list to receive occasional emails, you can
join the Marin Math Circle yahoo group, or you can email linda (at) marinmathcircle (dot) org and ask to be added in.
Parents, please sign up on the snack calendar for a night that you will bring snack, or email linda(at)marinmathcircle(dot)org to volunteer for a night, if you prefer.
Parents can use the class roster to arrange carpools or update their contact info. After clicking the link, you may need to request permission in order to access the document.
If you don't have a google account, you make need to make one in order to see these goodle docs. Please email linda(at)marinmathcircle(dot)org if you need help.
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Contests and Festivals
The following is a list of a few of the math contests and festivals that are available to middle school and high school students. Your school may offer some of these contests, and a few of the contests will be offered at the Marin Math Circle.
| Contest / Festival |
Date |
Age Group |
Julia Robinson Festival
Math activities and problem sets. |
Held several times a year
at Stanford, Berkeley, or other Bay Area locations. |
Middle School and High School |
USAMTS
Four sets of take home problems. |
October - March |
Middle School and High School |
American Mathematics Competitions (AMC)
Multiple choice individual contest. |
Tuesday, November 15, 2012
February 7 and February 22, 2012 |
Middle School (AMC 8)
High School (AMC 10 and 12) |
Bay Area Math Olympiad
Four hour, four or five question proof-style contest. |
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Offered at the Marin Math Circle |
Middle School (BAMO 8 or 12)
High School (BAMO 12) |
Mathletes
Four rounds, participate through your middle school. |
November - March |
7th and 8th grade |
Mathcounts
Participate through your middle school. |
February / March |
Middle School |
Mandelbrot
Five rounds, participate through your high school. |
October - March |
High School |
Summer Programs in Math for Middle and High School Students
- Stanford Unviersity Educational Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) holds two-week residential sessions for middle school students in math and other subjects and three and four-week sessions for high school students. Year round distance learning programs are also available.
- SUMAC (Stanford) is a four-week residential summer camp "designed for high school students who will be juniors and seniors in the fall, who have exceptional interest and ability in mathematics."
- Mathpath is "... a four-week residential summer camp for students [ages 11-14] showing high promise and interest in mathematics to extend their knowledge and skills in mathematics and to immerse them in the mathematical culture." Location varies.
- Epsilon Camp is "a summer camp for the exceptionally and profoundly gifted,
age 8 to under 11 years, who love math". The camp is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A parent goes with the student.
- Canada/USA Mathcamp is "... an intensive 5-week-long summer program for mathematically talented high school students, designed to expose these students to the beauty of advanced mathematical ideas and to new ways of thinking." Location varies.
- Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics is a six-week residential camp for mathematically talented high school students. The program includes "in-depth studies of particular problems and fields" with "an emphasis on unifying themes, recurrent patterns, and fruitful modes of inquiry."
- Awesome Math is a three-week residential summer camp for mathematically gifted sutdents who wish to hone their problem solving skills, further their mathematics eduation, and improve their performance on contests. It is held at Cornell University and at the University of California at Santa Cruz and is open to middle and high school students.
- Math Zoom has two- and three-week residential summer camps at Harvey Mudd College and at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, geared towards preparing students for math contests. It is open to middle and high school students.
- Camp Euclid is "a local/online, innovative, mathematics research camp for high school students ... in which participants will encounter and grapple with unsolved math problems. Camp students will collaborate within a circle of fellow researchers a few hours per week over the course of three (over the summer) or four months (during the school year)."
- California State Summer School in Math and Science (COSMOS) is open to high school students. This "4-week residential program offers areas of concentration in math as well as many other science/engineering disciplines."
- More summer camps are listed here
Other Bay Area Math Circles
Books
- Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience, by Dmitri Fomin, Sergey Genkin, and Ilia V. Itenberg
- A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle: The American Experience, edited by Zvezdelina Stankova and Tom Rike
- The Art and Craft of Problem Solving, by Paul Zeitz - a past speaker at the Marin Math Circle
- The Art of Problem Solving, by Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk
- Kiselev's Geometry by A.P. Kiselev, adapted by Alexander Givental
- Intriguing Mathematical Problems, by Oswald Jacoby and William Benson
- Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection, by Peter Winkler
- Mathematical Mind-Benders, by Peter Winkler
- My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles, by Martin Gardner
- The Magic of Numbers, by Benedict Gross
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