Local Updates from Across the Country


Colorado • b Te Northern Colorado MTC ran its fourth residen- tial week-long summer camp, July 10-15, at the YMCA in Winter Park, CO. Tis was the second joint sum- mer workshop with Rocky Mountain MTC, with 35 middle school teachers participating. Funding from the MAA-Dolciani Mathematics


Enrichment Grant helped initiate a Student Math Circle. Members of the MTC helped tremendously to advertise the first Student Math Circle Summer Camp, May 31-June 2, with 52 local students attending. Delia Haefeli (Winograd K-8 School) received the


Teacher of the Year award from Greeley Chamber of Commerce and Success Foundation. She has been on the Northern Colorado MTC leadership team since its inception in 2011.


- Contributed by Gulden Karakok


Connecticut • U Te Fairfield County MTC was awarded $500 from the Northeastern Section of the MAA for next year. - Contributed by Hema Gopalakrishnan


Mississippi • B Te Mississippi Delta MTC held four terrific meetings during its inaugural year. Circle member Penni Mor- gan, currently an elementary math coach, was admit- ted to a principal training program beginning summer 2016. Circle leader Liza Cope co-facilitated an MTC with Henri Picciotto on graph theory at the annual NCTM meeting in San Francisco. Te circle used the remaining funds from its AIM seed grant to purchase a 3D printer. Circle member Mary Kline brought her 6th grade class to Delta State University to make an optical illusion spinner aſter researching the math connections to 3D printing and optical illusions in their Scholastic magazine. Te Circle held another successful Domino’s Pizza Dough Raiser to raise funds for future meetings. - Contributed by Liza Cope


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Dispatches from the Circles NEWS AND


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New Mexico • t James Taylor (Santa Fe MTC) presented a luncheon talk at the New Mexico Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges Conference, May 20-21, in Los Lu- nas, with 90 participants from New Mexico colleges, El Paso, and Flagstaff. He introduced math circles with a mix of history, description, and an activity on Brussels sprouts, graphs, topology, and the Euler characteristic. He also ran a two-hour circle session of Liar’s Bingo. - Contributed by James Taylor


New York • y Japheth Wood (Bard Math Circle) won the distin- guished service award from the MetroNY section of the MAA. Te award cited his work with math circles at the local, regional, and national levels (http://sec- tions.maa.org/metrony/pastwinners). - Contributed by Japheth Wood


Oregon • a Te Portland MTC is excited to have been awarded a seed grant from AIM. Tey are holding a kick-off workshop on August 16 -17, eager to explore math together!


- Contributed by Kara Colley


Pennsylvania • s Te William Penn Foundation recently awarded the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Edu- cation (PennGSE) a grant to support mathematics instruction in Learning Network 2 of the School Dis- trict of Philadelphia. Te Philadelphia Area MTC has been named as a consultant on this grant, to further its work with teachers on mathematical problem-solving and interpreting and implementing the Standards for Mathematical Practice of the Common Core. Addi- tional funding for PAMTC’s effort has been pledged by AIM and a private, Philadelphia-based donor. - Contributed by Joshua Taton


MTCircular · Summer/Autumn 2016 · American Institute of Mathematics


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