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 1st, 11/01

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 closed for Fall 2025

Program for the week of : October 04, 2025

Discovery Session

Blue Group

Mark Shiliaev

Math Undergraduate

Subdividing A Pile and The Handshake Problem

Suppose you walk down to the corner some afternoon and there are six of your friends standing around. How many handshakes would there be if each person shakes each and every other person’s hand once? We will explore a connection between this problem and another seemingly unrelated counting problem.

Green Group

Dr. Sinjini Sengupta

Instructional Associate Professor

I Walk the Line

You live in a city where the roads lie on a grid. Your house is in one corner of the grid. Everyday, you walk to school at the opposite end of the grid. How many different ways can you walk to school? Suddenly there is a zombie infestation. How many ways can to walk to school, avoiding the zombies?

Red Group

Dr. Frank Sotille

Professor

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.

Problem Solving Session

Green Group