Spring 2008 Schedule

Location Date Leader/Topic
Lopata House Multipurpose Room Wednesday, Feb. 6
8:00AM-4:00PM
7:30AM - 8:00AM Registration, coffee, tea, pastries
8:00AM - 8:30AM Introductions, Project Overview
Blake Thornton (Wash U)
8:30AM - 9:30AM Problem Solving Strategies
Blake Thornton (Wash U)
9:30AM - 9:45AM Interaction/communication/break
9:45AM - 10:45AM Mathematics: Science of Patterns. Figurative Numbers
Richard Lodholz
Follow up notes, part 1
Follow up notes, part 2
10:45AM - 11:00AM Interaction/communication/break
11:00AM - 12.00PM Euler Characteristic
John McCarthy (Wash U)
12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM Buiiding Brick Walls: Counting Techniques, Number Patterns
Ann Podleski (Harris Stowe)
2:00PM - 2:15PM Interaction/communication/break
2:15PM - 3:10PM Non-deterministic Mathematics, Weird Dice, Non-transitive dice
Richard Lodholz
3:10PM - 3:25PM Interaction/communication/break
3:25PM - 4:20 p.m. Rational Tangles
Blake Thornton (Wash U)
4:20PM - 4:30PM Wrap-Up
Lopata House Multipurpose Room Thursday, Feb. 21
8:00AM-4:00PM
7:30AM - 8:00AM Registration, coffee, tea, pastries
8:00AM-9:30AM Modular Arithmetic and Doomsday
Blake Thornton (Wash U)
9:30AM-9:45AM Interaction/communication/break
9:45AM-12:00AM Zomes
Richard Lodholz
12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM Map Folding
Bryan Clair (SLU)
Psychology Building 249/251 Saturday, Feb. 23
8:00AM-4:00PM
7:30AM - 8:00AM Registration, coffee, tea, pastries
8:00AM - 9:30AM Algebra and Problem Solving
Al Otto (Illinois State)
9:30AM - 9:45AM Interaction/communication/break
9:45AM-10:45AM Matchbox Computers
Geir Arne Hjelle (Wash U)
10:45AM - 11:00AM Interaction/communication/break
11:00AM-12:00PM Zomes and Geometry
Richard Lodholz
12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM-2:15PM Prime Numbers
Blake Thornton (Wash U)
2:15PM - 2:30PM Interaction/communication/break
2:30PM-3:45PM Name Game and Permutations
Ann Podleski (Harris Stowe)
3:45PM - 4:00PM Interaction/communication/break
4:00PM - 4:30PM Group Discussion
  Tuesday, Mar. 4
4:00-7:30PM
Canceled
(due to weather)
Lopata House Multipurpose Room Tuesday, Mar. 18
4:00-7:30PM
4:00PM - 4:10PM Registration, warmup
4:10PM - 5:00PM Monty Hall
Ann Podleski (Harris Stowe)
5:00PM - 5:30PM Dinner/Interaction/communication/break
5:30PM - 6:30PM Pascal and Pizza, Exercises,
Richard Lodholz
6:30PM - 6:45PM Dinner/interaction/communication
6:45PM - 7:15PM Wythoffs Game.
Richard Lodholz
7:15PM - 7:30PM Dinner/interaction/communication
Lopata House Multipurpose Room Tuesday, Apr. 1
4:00-7:30PM
4:00PM - 4:10PM Registration/Warmup/Interaction
4:10PM - 5:05PM Map Coloring
Michael Goldwasser (SLU)
5:05PM - 5:35PM Dinner/Interaction/Communication
5:35PM - 6:30PM Chaos
Brody Johnson (SLU)
6:30PM - 6:45PM Interaction/Communication/Break
6:45PM - 7:15PM Card Tricks
Blake Thornton
7:15PM - 7:30PM Interaction/Communication/Break
Lopata House Multipurpose Room Tuesday, Apr. 15
4:00-7:30PM
4:00PM - 4:10PM Registration, warmup
4:10PM - 5:05PM Elementary Number Theory
Bob McDowell (Wash U)
5:05PM - 5:35PM Dinner/Interaction/Communication
5:35PM - 6:30PM M.C. Escher's Circle Limits: an introduction to hyperbolic geometry
Anneke Bart (SLU)
6:30PM - 6:45PM Break/interaction/communication
6:45PM - 7:15PM Magic Squares
Richard Lodholz
7:15PM - 7:30PM Break/interaction/communication
Psychology Building 249/251

Make-up Day
Thursday April 24
8:00AM-4:00PM
7:30AM - 8:00AM Registration, coffee, tea, pastries
8:00AM - 9:30AM Algebra Problem Solving 2
Al Otto (Illinois State)
9:30AM - 9:45AM Interaction/communication/break
9:45AM - 10:45AM Pythagorean Triples
Richard Lodholz
10:45AM - 11:00AM Interaction/communication/break
11:00AM-12:00PM Rubik's cube and other puzzles
Rajan Mehta (Wash U)
12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM-2:00PM The Difficult Task of Ensuring Fair Elections
Brad Henry (Wash U)
2:00PM - 2:15PM Interaction/communication/break
2:15PM-3:15PM Coloring Pascal's Triangle
Ann Podleski
3:15PM - 3:30PM Interaction/communication/break
3:30PM - 4:15PM Greatest Common Divisor
Blake Thornton
4:15PM - 4:30PM Interaction/communication/break
Lopata House Multipurpose Room Tuesday, Apr. 29
4:00-7:30PM
4:00PM - 4:10PM Registration, warmup
4:10PM - 5:05PM Fr Mike May (SLU)
5:05PM - 5:20PM Interaction/communication/break
5:20PM - 6:00PM Our Favorite Problems
Richard Lodholz, Ann Podleski, Blake Thornton
6:20PM - 7:30PM Dinner/interaction/communication

Washington University Middle School Mathematics Teachers' Circle