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 last Math Circle for Fall 2025 will be on December 6th, 12/06

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 : December 06, 2025

Discovery Session

Green Group

Jaehee Park

External speaker
Director of 4D STEAM

Building My Favorite Bridge Systems

Students will learn about the different types of bridges and their characteristics, and they will choose one that inspired them to build the bridge. Students, as a team of two or three, will create a bridge based on their decisions. The best-designed bridges will be selected and demonstrated.

Blue Group

Dr. Nataliya Goncharuk

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Remarkable Curves

Ellipse, Parabola, and Hyperbola --- these curves literally rule the universe! These are paths of planets, comets, rockets, and space debris. We will use rulers and strings to draw these fascinating curves --- and explore a few other remarkable ones too. Spacesuits not required.

Red Group

Dr. Dean Baskin

Professor of Mathematics

Several Stories about Quaternions

The quaternions are a famous mathematical object first described by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843. They have many uses in mathematics; one of their common uses today is in computer graphics, where the quaternions are used for rotations in three dimensions.. We will introduce this object from several different points of view: we will construct a multiplication table, consider them as a number system, and work with rotations.

Problem Solving Session

Green Group

Mengxiang Jiang

Graduate student at TAMU

Topics to be presented:

Pre-algebra.

Blue Group

Dr. Kun Wang

Instructional Assistant Professor

Organizer of Math Circle
Director of PReMa

Topics to be presented:

Selected AMC Problems

Red Group (Hybrid)

Dr. Xin Liu

Assistant Professor at TAMU

He is also an organizer of TAMU Math Circle

Topics to be presented:

Mathematical Modeling