Before COVID, the Middlebury Math Teachers’ Circle met at MIddlebury College on the first Thursday of the month, October – December and February – May, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm (including dinner). We had Zoom sessions in April and May of 2020, and again in October.
As of October 2022, we are meeting in person again, and welcome any K-12 teacher of mathematics who would like to join us!
Summer Workshop
The Circle held a three-day immersion workshop at Middlebury College August 6 – 8, 2019. Here’s what we did:
Tuesday August 6 | Wednesday August 7 | Thursday August 8 | |
9:00 | Welcome Superfactorials Diana White | Welcome Straighten it Out Greg Petrics | Welcome Big Numbers Dan Velleman |
10:30 | Break Superfactorials cont. | Break Measuring Symmetry Priscilla Bremser | Break Big Numbers cont. |
12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:00 | Problems from Antiquity George Ashline | Symmetry cont. | Farey Fractions Pete Schumer |
2:45 | Break | Break | Break |
3:00 | Permutations Greg Warrington | Different Sizes of Infinity Michael Olinick | Wrap-up Evaluations |
4:45 | Wrap-up | Wrap-up | |
5:00 | Depart | Depart | Depart |
The workshop was made possible by Middlebury College and the Math Teachers’ Circle Network, a project of the American Institute of Mathematics.
Thanks to the MTC Network, Diana White assisted us during the workshop. Diana is the Director of the National Association of Math Circles, and has conducted a Math Teachers’ Circle in Colorado since 2010. She is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Our other guest presenters were George Ashline from St. Michael’s College, Michael Olinick and Peter Schumer from Middlebury College, Greg Petrics from NVU-Johnson (and Middlebury graduate), and Greg Warrington from UVM.