Math Circle Network

Math Circles are local communities of students or teachers focused on the enjoyment of mathematical problem solving. The Math Circle Network, AIM's flagship outreach initiative, serves as a hub providing free mathematical and organizational resources for several hundred Math Circles around the U.S., with a special focus on supporting Math Circles that reach underrepresented or underserved students and their teachers.

We believe that Math Circles have an important role to play in increasing equitable access to joyful, rigorous, and relevant mathematics. We also see Math Circles as powerful bridges among K-12 schools, higher education institutions, out-of-school programs, and families. Our vision is for every student and teacher to have access to a Math Circle.

To learn more, find a Math Circle near you, or start your own, please visit our website or contact Brianna Donaldson, AIM's Director of Special Projects and Director of the Math Circle Network.

Math Communities

Math Communities is an AIM-led coalition of partner programs and organizations committed to increasing equitable access to what has become known as “joyful” mathematics: experiences focused on creative, collaborative problem solving in the context of engaging yet rigorous mathematical content. The Math Communities coalition consists of more than a dozen partners with national and international reach. Math Communities fosters collaborations among these partners and also serves as a portal connecting mathematicians, math departments, schools, community organizations, students, and families with free and low-cost resources and models for experiencing joyful mathematics.

To find out more, please visit our website or contact Brianna Donaldson, AIM's Director of Special Projects.

MATCH Classroom Visits

MATCH Classroom Visits pair mathematicians interested in K-12 outreach with classrooms at socioeconomically disadvantaged Title I schools. The program aims to improve students’ attitudes and confidence about mathematics by providing engaging mathematical experiences and meaningful opportunities to interact with practicing mathematicians.

From 2021 to 2024, MATCH Classroom Visits were sponsored by a grant from the MAA Tensor SUMMA program. MATCH is currently in a transition period in which we are working to make materials from the project publicly available. We also hope to support MATCH Classroom Visits in person in L.A. and the San Francisco Bay Area for interested mathematicians and teachers. Please contact MATCH Program Director and AIM Math Resources Coordinator Javier Haro for more information.

Math on the Border

Morgan Hill Math

Morgan Hill Math is a suite of math enrichment programs sponsored by AIM in Morgan Hill, CA (just south of AIM's former headquarters in San Jose). Around 200 students per week in grades 4 through 12 participate in activities such as after-school math contest training and math circles. Morgan Hill Math also provides a pathway for interested students to become near-peer mentors leading math enrichment activities for younger students. Past students with a strong interest in mathematics have participated in research projects with AIM Director Brian Conrey that have led to honors including a national science fair prize and a peer-reviewed journal article. Please contact Morgan Hill Math Director Kelley Barnes for more information.

Affiliated Programs

AIM hosts several externally-organized programs that are focused on developing models for engaging students, teachers, and families in joyful mathematics. Please contact AIM's Director of Special Projects, Brianna Donaldson, for more information about any of these programs.

Global Math Project

The Global Math Project (GMP) is a worldwide movement committed to inspiring educators everywhere to ignite and sustain in their students a love for learning mathematics. The project provides lessons, online resources, and community connections that encourage incorporating joy and wonder into how mathematics is taught in schools. GMP's signature topic is Exploding Dots, an approach to place value developed by GMP founder James Tanton that helps illuminate the connections between arithmetic and algebra. Since launching in 2017, the Global Math Project has engaged over 7 million students from more than 150 countries.

Alliance of Indigenous Math Circles

The Alliance of Indigenous Math Circles (AIMC) has mission of creating mathematical opportunities for Indigenous students and building community among math teachers of Indigenous students while respecting Indigenous culture. AIMC hosts in-person and virtual Math Circles for students and teachers, as well as residential summer math camps for students. Current tribal participation in the Alliance includes students, teachers, mathematicians, and other leaders from the Hopi, Choctaw of Oklahoma, Chickasaw of Oklahoma, and Pueblo tribes of New Mexico. The AIMC is actively seeking members of other tribes to partner with us and to serve as local “champions” for the power of mathematics to change lives.

Math Monday

Math Monday is a weekly drop-in lunchtime or after-school activity where students of all ages and abilities can get hands on with math games, puzzles and manipulatives that help build their math skills. Founded by puzzle and math game designer Scott Kim, the program is intended to reach all students at their own pace and is meant to help build a culture of joyful mathematics in schools or communities. Math Monday has been successfully implemented in schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the intention of spreading the model to the L.A. area and other schools nationally.