Each year the International Mathematical Olympiad invites over six hundred of the brightest young mathematicians across the globe to represent their country in an annual six-problem competition. They are challenged to solve complex mathematics problems…
On Thursday 25th October, 28 girls, representing 15 local elementary schools, public and private, took part in OMC’s first ever annual Girls’ Math Competition! Like the Math Scavenger hunt, the Girls’ Math Competition was a…
What’s been happening? Summer Internship This summer we ran our first ever OMC official internship, through which students created and planned educational content, innovative activities and competitions and explored their own mathematical curiosity. With OMC’s…
Welcome Back and Thank You! Welcome back! After a long summer break, we’re kicking off the new school year by sending a massive than you out to Dr. Phillips High School and its students for…
Since joining together with the NBA Orlando Magic team to produce a video for the Global Math Project in May, we’ve been interested in other ways our goal of making math fun for students overlapped…
Orlando Math Circle’s Director, Margarita Azbel, has deep affection for the majesty of math, but it wasn’t always this way. Margarita was born in the Soviet Union and came to the United States as a…
Posted on behalf of James Tanton, Mathematician-at-Large for the Mathematical Association of America and founder of the Global Math Project. James Tanton G’Day All: I am back from Orlando and from the whirlwind experience of…
Orlando Math Circle isn’t just about math education; it also focuses on developing other skills in it’s students, such as leadership, creativity, problem solving, and even social entrepreneurship. OMC provides a wealth of opportunities to…
Since its inception last year, the Global Math Project has been teaming up with Orlando Math Circle for special activities and events to support their shared goal of changing negative attitudes about math. As an…
What is Natural Math? Amongst other services, Natural Math produces math curriculum for math circles founded on seven principles. These are: MAKE (As in, “Math is what you make of it!”) OPENNESS ABUNDANCE YES, AND…