Math circle

Priyavrat and I run a math circle in our apartment complex. We started this activity in November 2012 with the aim of motivating young minds towards mathematical thinking.

Our goal is not training students for any competitions. Infact we aim to keep our math circle free of competition and focus more on developing a liking for mathematics.

Here is the poster for our math circle.

At present the format of the math circle is as follows -
duration: one and a half hour
frequency: once every week
agenda: the first hour is devoted to the mathematical topic of the day; in the next 30 minutes we try to focus on doing a fun activity having some mathematical flavour. Examples are solving Sudoku puzzles, rubik's cube, origami.

Here I will post resources on math circles that I find useful:
MSRI's National Association of math circles website:  http://www.mathcircles.org/

Books:
1) 'Challenge and thrill of pre-college mathematics' by V.Krishnamurthi, C.R. Pranesachar, K.N. Ranganathan, B.J. Venkatachala.

• 2) 'Mathematical circles (Russian experience)' by Dmitri Fomin, Sergey Genkin, Ilia Itenberg.

In November and December 2013 we learned modular origami. We used the book:
'Beginner's book of Modular Origami Polyhedra - The Platonic Solids' by Rona Gurkewitz and Bennett Arnstein.
I used 80 gsm paper for the folding; we found that thinner paper does not hold well enough for putting together the modules.