In Fall & Winter 2022-23, the Lower Elementary Math Ellipse
is actually a Middle Elementary Ellipse, for grades 3-5.
It now meets Mondays, 3:45-5:15.

Winter 2023 Schedule:
This schedule is tentative and hence subject to change.

Date Topic
January 2 New Year's Vacation & JMM Vacation
January 9  Folding Fractions Canceled Due to Rain
January 16 MLK Day Vacation - Optional Meeting on Folding Fractions
January 23 Picking Points
January 30 Puzzle Pieces
February 6 (Tu B'Shevat) Magic Trees
February 13 Hearty Math
February 20 Presidents Day Vacation
February 27 Mondrian Math
March 6 Fractals
March 13 Pi
March 20 P3 or A Recipe to Infinity

Fall 2022 Schedule:

Date Topic
September 5 Labor Day Vacation
September 12 / 16 Elliptical Explorations
September 19 Prancing Pentominos
September 26 Rosh HaShanah Vacation
October 3 / 7 Getting SET
Oct.10/14 - Global Math Week Exploding Dots
October 17 / 21 Sukkot Sets / Martin Gardner
October 24 / 28 Counting Cauldrons
Oct. 31 / Nov. 4 Halloween Vacation / SBJFF Vacation
November 7 / 11 Gerrymandering / Veterans Day Vacation
November 14 / 18 Map Coloring
November 21 / 25 Thanksgiving Vacation
Nov. 28 / Dec. 2 Bagels & Mugs
December 5 / 9 Torus Explorus
December 12 / 16 Pascal's Triangle

Spring 2022 Schedule (on Zoom):

Date Topic
to be filled in  

Winter 2022 Schedule (on Zoom):

Date Topic
to be filled in  

In Fall 2019 and Winter 2020, there was no Lower Elementary Math Ellipse.
Advanced 3rd graders joined the Upper Elementary Math Ellipse.

Spring 2019 Schedule:

Date Topic
April 3 Elliptical Explorations
April 10 Coloring Space - 1D
April 17 Coloring Space - 2D
April 24 - Passover Jumping Frogs
May 1 Personal Vacation
May 8 Mastermind & Permutations
May 15 Polygons of Equilateral Triangles
May 22 A Recipe to Infinity
May 28 Mathematcal Billiards
June 5 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Winter 2019 Schedule:

Date Topic
January 9 Quartering the Cross
January 16 JMM Vacation
January 23 Alpha Star AMC - Euler
January 30 Puzzle Pieces
February 6 MacMahon Squares
February 13 Isomorphic Games
February 20 Mondrian Math
February 27 Omino Tiling
March 6 Pascal's Triangle
March 13 Shapes of Numbers
March 20 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Fall 2018 Schedule:

Date Topic
September 26 - Sukkot Banana Bunches
October 3 Elliptical Explorations
& Directions/Dimensions
October 10 - Global Math Week Exploding Dots
October 17 Area on a Lattice
October 24 Pick's Theorem
October 31 - Halloween Jumping Spiders
November 7 Tower of Hanoi
November 14 The Game of SET
November 21 Thanksgiving Vacation
November 28 Knots and Not Knots
December 5 Dreidel Math
December 12 Spot-It!
December 19 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Spring 2018 Schedule:

Date Topic
April 4 Elliptical Explorations
April 11 G4G Vacation
April 18 Puzzles from G4G
April 25 Donuts & Donut Holes
May 2 KenKen
May 9 KenKen (kentinued)
May 16 Museum Guards
May 23 Triangulating & Coloring
May 30 TBD
June 6 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Winter 2018 Schedule:

Date Topic
January 3 Elliptical Exploration
January 10 JMM Vacation
January 17 Hexominos, Nets & Calendar
January 24 Graph Coloring
January 31 ~ Tu b'Shvat Trees
2-7-18 ~ e Day exponentials
February 14 ~ Valentine's Day Möbius Strips
February 21 Pythagorean Theorem in Foam
February 28 canceled due to illness
March 7 Map Coloring
March 14 ~ Pi Day π
March 21 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Fall 2017 Schedule:

Date Topic
September 13 Elliptical Exploration
September 20 Some Soxy Problems
September 27 Gossip Networks
October 4 Probability, Paradoxes & Monty Hall
October 11 Exploding Dots
October 18 Polyhedra Parts I
October 25 Polyhedra Parts II
November 1 Lyin' & Tigers & Bears
November 8 Square Fractals
November 15 Dividing Shapes
November 22 Thanksgiving Holiday
November 29 Prime Time
December 6 Prime Climb
December 13 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Spring 2017 Schedule:

Date Topic
April 6 Dividing Shapes
April 13
 Jumping Frogs
April 20 No Meeting - Skona Traveling
April 27
 No Meeting - Skona Traveling
May 4
 Shapes of Numbers
May 11
 Getting SET
May 18 Omino Tiling
May 25
 River Crossing
June 1
 Graph Coloring
June 8
 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Winter 2017 Schedule:

Date Topic
January 19 Elliptical Explorations & Nim
January 26
 Map Coloring
February 2 Donuts
February 9
 Spot-It
February 16
 Tower of Hanoi
February 23
 Mastermind
March 2 Sequences
March 9
 Patterns for Sequences
March 16
 Tetrominos & Pentominos
March 23
 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Spring 2016 Schedule:

Date Topic
April 11 Getting Re-SET
April 18
 Volume & Nets
April 25 Jumping Frogs
May 2
 Fermi Popcorn
May 9 Cutting Links
May 16
 Card Order Problem
May 23
 Miscellaneous Leftovers
May 30
 Memorial Day Vacation
June 6 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Winter 2016 Schedule:

Date Topic
January 4 Elliptical Explorations
January 11
 Repunits
January 18
 MLK Day Vacation
January 25
(Tu B'Shevat)
Trees
February 1
 Ramsey Theory
February 8
(Chinese New Year)
Monkey Math
February 15
 Presidents' Day Vacation
February 22
 Area
February 29
 Calendrical Math
March 7
 Area on a Lattice
March 14
(Pi Day)
Pi, Circles & Pizza
March 21 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Fall 2015 Schedule:

Date Topic
September 28 Elliptical Explorations
October 5
 Bunches of Bananas
October 12
(Columbus Day)
 Exploring Around the Earth
October 19
 Chocolate Logic
October 26
 Regular Polygons & Tesselations
November 2
(Boole's Bicentennial Birthday)
Boolean Logic
November 9
 Jumping Frogs
November 16
 7Ate9 & The Product Game
November 23
 Thanksgiving Vacation
November 30
 Prime Time
December 7
 Dreidel Math & The Function Box
December 14 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Spring 2015 Schedule:

Date Topic
April 27 Tower of Hanoi
May 4 Domino Tiling
May 11 Cutting Links
May 18 Getting SET
May 25 Memorial Day Vacation
June 1 TBD
June 8 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)

Winter 2015 Schedule:

Date Topic
February 23 Elliptical Explorations
March 2 Shapes of Numbers
March 9 Map Coloring
March 16 Double Trouble
March 23 P3 (Pizza Puzzle Party)