Welcome to the

TAMU Math Circle!

Welcome to the TAMU Math Circle!

The Texas A&M Math Circle is a weekly outreach activity in the Fall and Spring semesters that bring together 5th - 12th graders for a fun afternoon of mathematics and problem solving. Students work directly with math professionals in an informal, interactive setting to learn about interesting topics in mathematics and to develop problem solving skills and techniques. The goal is to help students become passionate about math and think about topics that are not necessarily covered in the standard curriculum. Our instructors range from professors and graduate students at Texas A&M to experts from industry, all of whom are eager to share with students their passion for mathematics and its applications.

Math Circle dates for 2025-2026

Saturday meetings in Fall 2025: 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/4, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22, and 12/6.

Our next Math Circle will be on November 22nd, 11/22

Saturday meetings in Spring 2026: 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/21, 2/28, 3/21, 4/11, 4/18, and 4/25.

The Math Circle schedule is as follows:

1:00 - 1:10: Drop off in BLOC 128

1:00 - 1:30: Fun Math Games

1:30 - 3:00: Discovery Session (by group)

3:00 - 4:00: Problem Solving Session (by group)

4:00 - 4:15: Pick up

Each week's activity is offered at three levels:

Leibniz (Green): Pre-Algebra and below

Noether (Blue): Algebra 1 and Geometry

Hilbert (Red): Algebra 2 and above

Please visit our Registration page to register your student(s).

Registration for Math Circle is open for Spring 2026

Program for the week of : November 22, 2025

Discovery Session

Green Group

Dr. Phil Yasskin

Associate Professor of Mathematics

What is i good for?

You all know that i is the square root of minus one. But what else is it good for? What is the cube root of minus one? What is the cube root of plus 1?

All of this will try to justify the graphical form of a complex number and the polar form of a complex number.

Blue Group

Dr. Frank Sottile

Professor of Mathematics

The Shape of Space

In mathematics and science, we often need to think about high (3 or more) dimensional objects, called spaces, which are hard or impossible to visualize. Besides the question of what such objects are or could be, is the problem of how can we make sense of such spaces.

The goal of this discussion is to give you an idea of how mathematicians manage to make sense of higher-dimensional spaces. We will do this by exploring the simplest spaces, and through our explorations, we will begin to see how we may tell different spaces apart.

Red Group

Rajanikant Bhatt

External Speaker

The Pigeonhole Principle

The pigeonhole principle states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at least one container must contain more than one item. We will explore this principle and its consequences.