The Jayhawk Math Teachers’ Circle brings together K-12 mathematics teachers from Northeast Kansas with university mathematics instructors to practice mathematical thinking, discussion, and collaboration. Our activities will highlight the participatory and fun nature of mathematics, and we hope that teachers will learn to develop and deploy similar experiences for their own students. Math is not just a collection of rules and algorithms: it is about patterns, reasoning, and articulation, and it is beautiful!

The open-ended activities tackled by members of a Math Teachers’ Circle require the use of “21st-century skills,” whose development is at the forefront of state-level education advocacy efforts in Kansas. To that end, the Jayhawk MTC will help members of local educational communities pursue crucial state initiatives.