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Thanks to the support of Eastlink, Nova Scotia Math Circles is free.
When we come to your school, we ask that you fill up the day. Our sessions can fit into any classroom between 40 and 90 minutes, so make whatever schedule works best for your school. You can share this video to show teachers what to expect when we come into their classroom.
Your teachers can request a specific part of the curriculum be covered, or you can just trust us to deliver an activity designed to simultaneously engage both struggling and gifted students. You can also order specific activities. The list below are some of our most popular activities:
Talks & shows:
- Towers of Hanoi (exponential growth) grades 11-12
- Mathemagic (observation & arithmetic) grades 2-7 (collection of tricks like birthday magic, Tic Tac Toe bijection, magic squares, Guess a number).
Infinite Pickles (crunchy puzzles!):
- Jumping Frogs (counting) grades 2-3
- The Forgetful Mr. Heesch (organization) grades 3-6
- Lazy Architect (area) grades 3-10
- Mondrian Art Puzzles (multiplication) grades 4-6
- Domino tilings (patterns & counting) 4-10
- Diversity City (averaging) grades 7-10
Unsolved Problems (don't worry!):
- No-three in a line (counting) grade 1
- Bubbling Cauldrons (addition) grade 2
- Animal Subtraction (subtraction) grade 3
- Icarus & Daedalus (multiplication and halving) and Minimal trips around the Collatz Universe grade 4
Inductive problem-solving:
- Crumbling Castles (multiplication, geometry) grades 5-8
- Integral Fission (Prime factorization) grades 6-8
- Rainbow Squares (square numbers) grades 4-6
Games:
- Santorini (3D) grades 2-12
- Zebra (multiplication) grades 4-12
- Liars Dice (probability) grades 5-12
- Ariadne's string puzzle & game (Pythagoras) 7-12
Manipulatives:
- Thomas the Tank Engine (patterns) P-3
- Pentomino Animals (spatial awareness) grades P-5
- Composite Critters (identical-piece-jigsaw puzzles) P-6
- Möbius Strip (topology) grades 4-9.
- Cops & Robbers (logic & symmetry) grades 2-5
- Dot to dot precise measurement puzzles (using a ruler) grades 2-3
- Friends (counting & graph theory) grade 3-4
- Fractured fractions (similar fractions) grade 5-7
- Unfair Throne (adding and subtracting fractions) grades 7-8
- Mimizu (Prime Factorization) grades 6-8
- Kajitsu (symmetry) grades 5-9
- Venn zoo or Venn dice (organization) grades 2-8
Contact:
- To book a visit, please email Gordon.
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