Season
Spring 2016
See links below for handouts.
Schedule
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Beginners | Elementary | Intermediate | Advanced |
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Jan 16
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Logic and Tetronimos 1
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Logic and Tetronimos 2
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Logic and Tetronimos 3
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Math Games
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Jan 23
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Snow day. Math Circle will not meet. |
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Jan 30
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Knights and Knaves and Pigeons
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Knights and Knaves and Frogs
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Knights and Knaves and Squares of Squares
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The Game of Nim and the Game of Jim
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Feb 6
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More Tetrominos
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Friends and Money
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A Square of Squares
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Nim and Four Points, Two Distances
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Feb 13
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Five Cards on a Table
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Five Cards on a Table and the Farmer and the Cow
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The Farmer and the Cow and Yoda
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Variations on the Locker Problem
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Feb 20
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Tetromino Shape
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Dice Rolls
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Logic and Lockers
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Tiling Puzzles
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Mar 5
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Bridge across the Moat
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Two Is Better than Infinity, Part 1
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Rainy Days and Grandchildren
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Infinity and Beyond
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Mar 12
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Consecutive Numbers
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Two Is Better Than Infinity, Part 2
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Weather, Divisors and Semicircles
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Coins, Dice, and Card Tricks
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Mar 19
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Venn Diagram Problems
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Two Is Better Than Infinity, Part 3
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Adventure Problems
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How to Gamble If You Must
(Expected Value)
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Mar 26
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How Many Can Sit at the Table?
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Two is the Best Number, Part 4
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Eating Grass and Measuring Water
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Modular Arithmetic
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Apr 2
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Apr 9
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Apr 16
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Pizza Problems
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The Game of Cat and Mouse
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Handshake Problems
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Problems about Knowledge about Knowledge
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Apr 23
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Apr 30
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Working Backwards
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Math Auction
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Math Auction
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Number Theory, Part 2
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May 7
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Adding Consecutive Numbers
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Tower of Hanoi, Soma Cube, and Arithmetic Puzzles
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Secret Codes
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Iterative Paper Folding
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May 14
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Hidden Rectangles, Building with Triangles and Mobius Bands
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Soma Cube, Mobius Bands, and Water Pouring Puzzles
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Chess Tours and Knight Moves
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Rational Tangles
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May 21
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Saturday, May 21 Julia Robinson Math Festival |