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MATH CIRCLES AT FIU Announcements: Check for the new problems! Room: GC 279 B, Saturdays 2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Big Circle: April 25th - Check the problem below! Little Circle: April 18th Topic: Zeno and density of rational numbers Description of the Program This is an outreach
program for motivated students from elementary to high school who are interested in mathematics. Math Circles were
introduced first in Hungary and other Eastern European countries in order
to select gifted in Mathematics middle and high school students and teach
them some more advanced topics in Elementary Mathematics. One of the goals
was to prepare those students for prestigious math competitions on local,
national, and international level. Traditionally, Math Circles are
organized and directed by research mathematicians who have been
participants in such Circles as students themselves, and have the passion
for helping the younger generation broaden their knowledge in more
interesting and deep mathematics.
All that the participants of the Math Circles at FIU need to have is math curiosity and the wish to work on mathematical problems. This semester, Spring'09, the program will meet every other Saturday, from 2:30 p.m. till 4:00 p.m. in Graham Center at the University Park campus of Florida International University. The first meeting is on September 20th. The room for high school students (Big Circle) is not given yet, the room for middle school students (Little Circle) is GC 279B. However, there might be temporary changes, which will be announced.
Some of the books we are
using are: Problems for kids from 5 to 15 years old - by V. I. Arnol'd.
Problem Section Problems for the Little Circle 1. The problem we will discuss is: In any triangle the centroid, the orthocenter and the circumcenter ( the center of the curcumference) are on one line. The line is called the Euler's line.
2005-Problem-Solving-Contest http://www.fiu.edu/~draghici/mathcircle_files/contest_description.htm
For further information
contact any one of: Tedi Draghici, draghici@fiu.edu, (305) 348-2028, Link to the Math department web page hello
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