Bard Math Circle
The Bard Math Circle provides a supportive environment for children who are self-proclaimed math nerds to explore their passion for the subject. We hope to teach children something new every time we provide a service, and to introduce them to a pre-college community to whom they can relate.
The Bard Math Circle provides a supportive environment for children who are self-proclaimed math nerds to explore their passion for the subject. We hope to teach children something new every time we provide a service, and to introduce them to a pre-college community to whom they can relate. Math is perceived as a hard subject and thus hard to love by the general public. However, we hope to step into these children’s lives and show them math has a lot more beauty to it than what their schools may have time to express. By appreciating this beauty we become part of the math circle.
The Bard Math CAMP is an inspiring mathematical enrichment opportunity. Engaging classes and activities are led by experienced educators and undergraduate math majors. We emphasize hands-on math, teamwork, outside-the-box thinking and creative problem-solving. Students who are comfortable experimenting and happy to solve puzzles enjoy the connection of math to art, and computer science. CAMP has been recognized three times by the American Mathematical Society with Epsilon Awards. CAMP was also supported by the Mathematical Association of America with Dolciani Math Enrichment Grants for the first three summers.
2025 Bard Math CAMP
The 2025 Bard Math CAMP ran the week of August 4–8 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. Read about this amazing week in our daily CAMP Blog!
Join us for our 2025–2026 Family Math Afternoons for middle school students and their families.
Enjoy a selection of engaging and hands-on math activities. The mathematical fun will be infinite! No prior registration needed, meet upstairs in the Community Room.
Days: Saturday afternoons
Times: 2–4pm
Dates: tba
Location: Kingston Library, 61 Crown Street, Kingston, NY 12401
Audience: Middle school students and their families
* The Kingston Library is in the Cioni building in Uptown Kingston as renovation proceeds on 55 Franklin Street
We feature the American Math Competitions contests (AMC 8, AMC 10, and AMC 12), and some years the Purple Comet contest, and Girls’ Adventures in Mathematics (GAIM). The focus of our Contest Program is to encourage a culture of creative mathematical problem-solving at the middle school level. This popular program attracts students come from all over the Mid-Hudson Valley.
OUR 2024–2025 CONTEST SEASON:
The Bard Math Circle STEM Tutor Network offers quality tutoring to pre-college students in-person and through online videoconferences.
Our tutors are Bard College undergraduates and graduates, who come from all over the world, bringing high levels of expertise and intellectual engagement.
In 2024, we are tutoring mostly in person, and we’ve continued to deepen students’ appreciation and understanding of their studies, and have expanded to include tutoring in Computer Science, Physics, and other STEM subjects.
Japheth Wood
co-Director / Math Instructor
Frances Stern
co-Director / Math Instructor
I’m Japheth Wood (he/him), the Bard Math CAMP co-director, and a math professor at Bard College. CAMP (which is an acronym for Creative and Analytical Math Program) is a very special week of the year for our young math community. It's inspiring to see our students return year after year. This is our 11th summer of CAMP! We're back once again on the idyllic Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and thankful to the CAMP students, parents, and staff, for making this mathemagical week happen. Notably, we've (finally) had our first CAMP reunion this past June, an event that I know will grow to be an integral part of what we do.
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My name is Frances Stern (she/her/hers)! I’ve been teaching math at CAMP since the first year, making sure our math theme has a connection to art and computer. It’s fun to show students math that they don’t see in school. I've retired from daily teaching but continue to teach for the New York Math Circle & students who are seeking more math in their lives. My hobbies include learning to draw, paint, & juggle, reading, walking & folk dancing. I’ve written 2 books for teachers and parents called “Adding Math, Subtracting Tension” (for different age-ranges of children). They pay as much attention to how to keep out of a fight (what many parents told me is a problem) as they do to math.
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