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This is a collection of materials developed for Math Circle sessions for teachers and students. These materials were primarily designed as a guide for session leaders rather than for classroom use.

Handouts and worksheets used specifically for Math Teachers’ Circles are marked by . Please keep visiting this page, as we are always adding new materials and refining old ones. We welcome your contributions to this list!

Featured Sessions and Resources

Summer 2013 Newsletter

The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
Bill McCallum's blog: Tools for the Common Core Standards
The Progressions Project for the CCSSM
Illustrative Mathematics
Mathematical Games (P. Zeitz)
The Biggest, the Smallest (T. Shubin)
Toads & Frogs Puzzle and Toads & Frogs Puzzle 2D (Cut the Knot)
Frogs (NRICH)
Jumping Coins (Puzzles.com)
Mathematics Teachers Circle Around Problem Solving (A. Fernandes, et al.)
Primes in Evenland (NYTimes)
Nine Function Diagrams (Math Education Page)
Functions Diagrams (H. Picciotto)
Focus on Function Diagrams: Teacher Notes (A. Wah and H. Picciotto)

Winter 2013 Newsletter

The 1-to-100 Problem (J. Zucker and T. Davis)
The Art and Craft of Problem Solving (P. Zeitz)
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Messages (M. Beck)
Coins in Twoland (J. Zucker)
Conway's Rational Tangles (T. Davis)
Exploding Dots (J. Tanton)
Fawn Nguyen's blog: Finding Ways to Nguyen Students Over, and the MTC post
Fractions and Decimals (T. Davis)
Fractions, Decimals, Ratios, Rates, Percents, Proportions (T. Shubin)
The Game of SET (B. Conrey and B. Donaldson)
Grid Luck (T. Shubin)
How to Gamble If You Must (P. Zeitz)
The Jug Problem: video clips, The Jug Band (Elgin Johnston), Three Jugs (Joshua Zucker)
Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
Mathematical Games (P. Zeitz)
Multicolored Multiplication Table (D. Millar)
The Power of Wishful Thinking (A. Rodin)
Solve This! (J. Tanton)
Thousand Oaks MTC
Two is Better Than Infinity (P. Zeitz)

Autumn 2012 Newsletter

dy/dan (Dan Meyer's mathematics blog)
Algebra Teaching Study (Floden, Schoenfeld, and colleagues)
The Art and Craft of Problem Solving (Paul Zeitz)
Teacher Network Study (Clinton Morrison)
Casco Bay MTC
Exploding Dots, or Dots and Boxes (James Tanton)
Handshakes and Graph Theory (Elgin Johnston)
A Trio of Friendly Problems: Handshakes, Diagonals, and Triangular Numbers (Mary Fay-Zenk)
Dominoes and Rectangles and Tiling Torment (Joshua Zucker)
Math Doesn't Suck (Danica McKellar)
One Inch Tall (poem by Shel Silverstein)
News segment on North Louisiana MTC
Bay Area Math Olympiad for Teachers
Compositions (Joshua Zucker)

Winter 2012 Newsletter

Factorials and Squares (Estelle Basor)
Zometool Lesson Plans 1.0 (see pp. 49-51)
Mathematical Card Tricks (Tom Davis)
Mathemagical Card Tricks (Stephanie Santorico)
Four Points, Two Distances (Alon Amit)
What is Like a Square? (Joshua Zucker)
Exploding Dots, or Dots and Boxes (James Tanton; see p. 22 of the instructor notes)

Summer 2011 Newsletter

Grid Luck (Tatiana Shubin)
Have Colors - Will Paint (Tatiana Shubin)
Instant Insanity Cubes (Stephen Hartke)
The Jug Problem: video clips, The Jug Band (Elgin Johnston), Three Jugs (Joshua Zucker)
The Mad Veterinarian on Mathematical Safari (Gene Abrams)

Sessions by Topic

General Problem Solving
Mathematical Games
Algebra & Arithmetic
Combinatorics
Geometry
Number Theory
Miscellanea

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