Each month there is both a Math Circle on Tuesdays. During the school year the Wayne County Math Circle will meet in: September, October, November, January, February, March, April, & May.
To sign up for the school-year meetings, use the online application.
These sessions are lead by mathematicians and consist of collaborative work on open-ended, exploratory math problems and using those experiences to think about problem-solving in the classroom.
Tuesday Circle:
- (approximately) 3rd Tuesday of each month
- Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
- Location: over Zoom
- Dates: 9/20/22, 10/18/22, 11/15/22, 1/17/23,
2/21/23, 3/21/23, 4/18/23, 5/16/23
Schedule:
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Session Leader: Stephen DeBacker
Title: Applied Logic
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Session Leader: Ahmad Barhoumi
Title: Strang’s Strange Figures
In 1991, Gilbert Strang published a Calculus textbook whose back cover featured plots of points of the form (n, sin(n)) for integers n up to 10,000, shown at two different scales. The pictures exhibit beautiful patterns that beg for an explanation. In this session, we will discuss the connection between these figures and the notion of “aliasing,” and explain these images from the point of view of rational approximants.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Session Leader: Caroline Davis
Title: Illustrating Mathematics by Crochet
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Session Leader: Sandra Nair
Title: The myth of Prometheus: a prime time
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Session Leader: Bradley Zykoski
Title: Parametrizing all triangles
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Session Leader: Amir Vig
Title: The Jazz of Math
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Session Leader: Mark Conger
Title: TBD
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Session Leader: Pat Boland
Title: Euler’s Fabulous Formula: Trigonometric Identities, Angle Trisections, and a Fundamental Theorem, Oh My!