Bay Area Circle for Teachers JANUARY 2011 Newsletter
Bay Area Circle for Teachers Winter Workshop 2011
At this year’s workshop you can look forward to Math Circle lesson presentations by the San Francisco State University (CM)^2 Mathematician and Teacher Partnership Teams. These 9 teams of mathematical graduate students and SFUSD teachers will present lessons they’ve created for San Francisco Math Circle and discuss how they’ve used the lessons in their classes.
Possible topics include Combinatorics of the game SET and Knot Topology. This program is free to all teachers and includes lunch and snacks provided by the BACT.
Date: Saturday, January 29th, 2011.
Location: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
To pre-Register for the Workshop or for more information, please visit our website, http://bact.mathcircles.org/winter
Bay Area Julia Robinson Math Festival
Our first event of the year will take place on January 30 at UC Berkeley. We will run morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session will begin at 9am and run through 1:15pm, with the first hours consisting of mathematical activities and raffle prizes and the last hour being a math circle style talk. The afternoon session will begin at about noon and begin with the talk, followed by activities and prizes. More information will be available at http://www.msri.org/web/msri/static-pages/-/node/249 (or at http://tinyurl.com/JRMFBerkeley).
There is a registration fee, but if you have difficulty paying, you can request a fee waiver with a simple check box, so please don’t let lack of funds discourage you from organizing a group to attend.
STEMposium
Join leaders in STEM education to highlight interesting, unique and fun ways of bringing math and science classrooms to life. Submit your idea in a 60-second video and you will have the chance to be one of twenty presenters at a STEM Symposium – the STEMposium! – on April 1, 2011 at the California Academy of Sciences.
Five innovators will have the chance to win up to $5,000 each in cash and prizes! Please click here for more information. Videos are due January 31, 2011.
Escape from the Textbook!
A Sharing and Collaboration Conference for Middle and High School Math Teachers who want to escape from the textbook for a lesson, a unit, or an entire course.
Date: Saturday, February 12 8:45 am to 3:00 pm
Location: Urban School of San Francisco 1563 Page St, SF, 94117
More info, registration: www.EscapeTheTextbook.org or email: .
Why you should attend:
This conference is an opportunity to share ideas and strategies, and to get help where you need it. We hope participants will bring artifacts from their schools, as well as burning questions and dilemmas. Here are some of the outcomes we hope for:
- strategies to complement or replace textbook units
- networking with like-minded teachers
- ongoing multischool collaboration groups
Bay Area Circle for Teachers Summer Workshop
The Bay Area Circle for Teachers 2011 Summer Workshop will be held June 20- June 24, 2011. This program is free for all teachers. In fact, teachers who attend are eligible for housing in Berkeley. Information about the program will be distributed at the January Winter Workshop and posted on the website after January 30th.
Please click here to apply online. Applications will be reviewed beginning February 28th.
For more information, please visit http://bact.mathcircles.org/summer
Elementary Math Circle Programs Around the Bay Area
======== Nueva Elementary Math Circle ======
Please join us for the next session of the Nueva Math Circle on Friday, January 14, 2011 at 5:00-7:30 pm in the Hillside Cafe, Library and I-Lab. Our January session will be led by Paul Zeitz, Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco and author of The Art and Craft of Problem Solving.
Information and registration for Math Circle can be found at the following link: www.nuevaschool.org/community/gifted-outreach/math-circles. Please register promptly, as registration will close on January 12th. The evening is geared for children in preK through 5th grade, but all families are invited to attend. The Nueva Math Circle is also open to the public.
The Nueva Math Circle Committee
======== Berkeley Elementary Math Circle ======
The first meeting of the Berkeley Math Circle for this school year will be September 7th.
In addition to BMC Beginner and BMC Advanced there is a BMC Elementary for younger students in grades 1-3.
The registration and supplies fee is $110 per semester per student.
In order to apply for BMC Elementary, please contact Elena Blanter (), Laura Givental (), or Sergei Ovchinnikov ().
The application for this program must be done in person.
The schedule and archives are at http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/
======== Oakland/ Montclair Elementary Math Circle ======
The new Oakland/ Montclair Elementary Math Circle will hopefully be beginning in November! If you are interested in participating in planning or are interested in receiving more information about the program please contact the program Director, Anne Hassett <>
======== Palo Alto Elementary Math Circle? ======
Are you interested in a Palo Alto Elementary Math Circle?
For more information contact Joshua Zucker <>
Bay Area Math Circles Began Again for Spring 2011
See below for the schedules and website information for all Bay Area Math Circles!
- Oakland/ East Bay Math Circle, http://oebmc.mathcircles.org/ *Teachers Invited*
- San Francisco Math Circle, http://www.sfmathcircle.org/index.html *Teachers Invited*
- Berkeley Math Circle, http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/
- Marin Math Circle, http://www.marinmathcircle.org/
- San Jose Math Circle, http://www.sanjosemathcircle.org/schedule
- Davis Explore Math Program, http://explore.math.ucdavis.edu/
- AIM Math Teachers’ Circle, http://mathteacherscircle.org/circle/index.html *Teachers Invited*
- Stanford Math Circle, http://www.stanfordmathcircle.org
CMC STEMposium
The Central Section of the California Mathematics Council is proud to announce its Inaugural STEMposium located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada February 25 & 26, 2011.
Attend sessions that focus on the value of STEM learning environments as a way to engage students and increase motivation in grades 6 to 12 classrooms. Experience activities you can implement in your classroom on the following Monday that create a strong understanding of mathematics and science concepts.
Registration is $99 per person with a special rate of $250 for a school site team of three that includes an Administrator/Teacher combination. Each additional team member will be at the already low $99 fee for sessions that begin Friday evening and continue on Saturday—also eliminating the need for substitutes.
For more information and to register, please click here.
Upcoming Events
-Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2011: Mathematical Education of Teachers. May 11-13, 2011
https://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm558
- STEMposium, April 1, 2011
- Museum of Mathematics to open 2012, http://www.momath.org
- Summer Math Programs
Resources from past BACT events
-Bay Area Circle for Teachers Elementary Math Circle Workshop- August 26. This workshop will support the growth of new Bay Area elementary Math Circles and also provide a forum to discuss upcoming mathematical opportunities for students and teachers.
Visit our website for more information, http://bact.mathcircles.org/elementary
-Bay Area Circle for Teachers Summer Workshop 2010, checkout the website of resources, http://bact.mathcircles.org/summer10 and photos. http://bact.mathcircles.org/gallery
-Google Exploring Computational Thinking
http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/index.html
A project suggestion from an OEBMC teacher.
