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TAMU Math Circle
TAMU Math Circle
The 2026-27 session starts on Saturday, September 12th!
The 2026-27 session starts on Saturday, September 12th!
The Texas A&M Math Circle is an enrichment 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 their passion for mathematics and its applications.
Our Math Circle dates for 2026-2027
Our Math Circle dates for 2026-2027
Our next meeting in Fall 2026 will be on: 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/17, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, and 11/21
Saturday meetings in Spring 2027: 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/27, 3/6, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, and 5/1.
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
Program for Saturday: September 26, 2026
Discovery Session
Green Group
Tom Haque
Tom Haque
Unergraduate student in Mathematics
Super Tangrams
Tangrams are a classic Chinese puzzle consisting of 7 pieces which fit together to form a square or other shapes. Super Tangrams are a set of 14 pieces which fit together to form a large number of shapes.
We will try to make as many shapes as possible with Super Tangram and try to win against each other.
Blue Group
Dr. John Weeks
Instructional Associate Professor in Mathematics
Building a SET Quilt
We will play the game of SET with a twist. SET is a pattern recognition game where students attempt to find a set of three cards for which each of the four attributes of objects on those cards is either all the same or all different. Working together, students place cards so that every row, column, and diagonal forms a SET, gradually uncovering a self-similar rule: the same all-same-or-all-different principle that defines a SET among cards also determines exactly where each card belongs in the grid — both which quilt block it goes in, and where within that block.
Red Group
Dr Sinjini Sengupta
Instructional Associate Professor in Mathematics
Mondarian Art Puzzles
You’re Mondrian’s mathematical boss. Instead of allowing Mondrian to randomly draw rectangles and colors -you lay out requirements: 1) Mondrian must cover an N by N canvas entirely with rectangles. 2) Every rectangle in the painting must have different dimensions. 3) Mondrian must use as few colors as possible, and rectangles with the same color cannot touch one another. Under these rules, Mondrian must try to minimize his score. A painting’s score is the area of its largest rectangle minus the area of its smallest rectangle.
Problem Solving Session
Green Group
Jennifer Yuan
Graduate student at Math
worked at NYU Math Circle before
Art of Problem Solving - Pre Algebra
Blue Group
Shivam Tiwari
Shivam Tiwari
Graduate Student at Math
Art of Problem Solving - Introduction to Geometry
Red Group
Joshua Im
Joshua Im
Graduate student at Math
PROMY Counselor , REU experience
Problems from Geometry
TAMU Math Circle news from 2025-2026
TAMU Math Circle in the news!
April 21st, 2026
Newsletter
College of Arts and Sciences
Texas A&M University
2025 Autumn MathCircular.pdfAutumn 2025 articles about the TAMU Math circle in the Math Circular magazine.
"Learning with the Texas A&M Math Circle" followed by "Pop Tac Toe"
The Math Circular is Published by the Math Circle Network, a project of the American Institute of Mathematics.
2026 Math Circle final day picture. Taken after the Math Wrangle in Blocker 102.
2025 Math Circle graduation picture taken by Dr. John Weeks.
News from 2024:
Welcome to Dr. Samson Zhou join our Problem-Solving session. He is a former classroom assistant and textbook editor for Art of Problem Solving books; he is also a former Texas ARML coach; and he is alumnus of A&M Consolidated High School. We are confident that Dr. Zhou's participation will significantly enrich our program, and we warmly welcome him to join us.
Below is the May 6, 2024 graduation. (Photo taken by Jeremy Kubaik)
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