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Welcome

Bored with your Math class? The Rice Math Circle is for Houston area students in grades 7-12 who find that the regular math curriculum is not challenging enough. To get the most out of our meetings, you should have mastered algebra and know basic geometry but calculus is not required.

We meet on selected Sundays from 1-4 pm at the Rice University campus in The Herman Brown Hall for Mathematics in Room 227. Directions to our meetings can be found by following the "Directions" link shown above.

We encourage all interested students to attend but please pre-register and fill out the consent form. This form is necessary so that we can use the Rice University facilities and should be turned in at your first meeting.

Results for April 21 Purple Comet Contest:

  • High School Division, mixed:
    • Team TORUS (Eric Li, Hans Li, Wilbur Li, Girishvar Venkat, Alex Whatley, and Daniel Whatley) scored 27/30 for 3rd place
  • High School Division, large:
    • Team SJS (St. Johns School) placed 37th (93rd percentile)
  • Middle School: Divison, mixed:
    • Team Two (Bryan Liu) scored 16/20 to tie for 7th place/honorable mention

Congratulations to all who participated.


Spring 2013 Schedule

Date Time Activity
January 6 1 - 4 pm Continued Fractions
January 20 1 - 4 pm Linear Algebra
February 3 1 - 4 pm Circles I
February 17 1 - 4 pm Circles II and AIME Practice
March 3 1 - 4 pm Amie Review
March 17 1 - 4 pm Combinatorics
April 7 1 - 4 pm Inversion
April 21 1 - 4 pm No Math Circle Meeting but Purple Comet Teams will meet at 1pm. Please contact me for late registration, especially middle school students.
http://purplecomet.org/
April 28 1 - 4 pm Probability
May 12 1 - 4 pm Graph Theory with special lecture "How Many Regions" by Frank Jones
May 26 1 - 4 pm TBA

 

Fall 2012 Schedule

Date Time Activity
September 16 1 - 4 pm Number Theory
October 7 1 - 4 pm Inequalities
October 21 1 - 4 pm Geometry
November 4 1 - 4 pm Polynomials
November 18 1 - 4 pm Induction
December 2 1 - 4 pm Geometry and Pigeon Hole Principle