Welcome to our

Twin Cities Math Teachers' Circle!
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Six dinner meetings are scheduled for the academic year 2012-13.  All will be held on Thursdays from 5:15-8:00 pm.
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Date	Speaker	Topic*	Location
October 4, 2012	Cheri Shakiban and Chris Wernimont	Mathematics and Symmetry	OSS 227
November 1, 2012	Brenda Kroschel and Carr Kpanyor	Graph Theory and Matrices	OSS 227
January 10, 2013
February 7, 2013	Sunil Chetty, College of St. Benedict and St. John's University Seth Leavitt	Modular Arithmetic and Solving Polynomial Equations for N	OSS 227
March 7, 2013	Lisa Rezac
April 11, 2013	Molly Leonard Tun
May 2, 2013	Pavel Belik, Augsburg College

2011-12 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic*	Location
October 13, 2011	Brian Loe	The Mathematics of Soap Bubbles
November 17, 2011	Cheri Shakiban and Chris Wernimont	Fractal Geometry	OSS 237 & OSS 226
January 19, 2012	Mellisa Loe and Kurt Alpers	Number Puzzles Beyond Sudoku
February 16, 2012	Brenda Kroschel and Suzanne Horne	Mathematics of String Art	OWS 251
April 19, 2012	Cheri Shakiban and Daniel Bernal	Quipos	OWS 251
May 7, 2012	Melissa Loe and Chris Sullivan	Discrete Math	OWS 251

 

2010-11 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic*	Location
October 14, 2010	Melissa Loe	Euler Characteristic	OWS 275
November 11, 2010	Cheri Shakiban, Patty DeJarlais	Pascal's Triangle, the Sierpinski Triangle, and the Tower of Hanoi	OWS 275
January 13, 2011	Lisa Rezac	Coding and Crytography	OWS 150
February 10, 2011	Heekyung Youn	Binomial Theorem and the Normal Distribution	TBA
March 10, 2011	Brenda Kroschel	Exploding Dots	TBA
April 14, 2011	Tracy Biebelnieks	Game Theory	TBA

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Organizers

UST Math Faculty
Brenda Kroschel
Melissa Loe
Cheri Shakiban

Minneapolis Public Middle School Teachers
Patty DeJarlais (Keewaydin)
Chris Wernimont (Anwatin)
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Identity/Mission (informal)

In the summer of 2010, we initiated a professional support group of 24 members, consisting of UST math professors and Twin Cities middle school math teachers.  At a summer retreat and dinner meetings throughout the year, we discuss mathematics, solve problems, and work to enhance the teaching of middle school mathematics.  We are part of the expanding national Math Teachers' Circle Network.

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Financial Supporters

University of St. Thomas
and
Dr. Sue Chaplin's STEM grant from the NSF