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Asking a number of math circle organizers in 5-2011 to get involved in revamping this page to better reflect the larger topic of math circles and serve as an appropriate jumping off point to specific math circle pages and topics. [[User:Djcordeiro|Djcordeiro]] ([[User talk:Djcordeiro|talk]]) 05:38, 28 May 2011 (UTC) |
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As mentioned in the discussion on [[Talk:Mathcircle|Mathcircle]], math circle are no American Invention. The first math circles similar to those, described in the article, first developped in Russia, probably. At least they were common during the cold war in the entire Eastern Bloc. The Kaplan Math Circle are nothing else, than the adoption of this system to American university environments with education scientific underlying. [[User:Toscho|Toscho]] ([[User talk:Toscho|talk]]) 11:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC) |
As mentioned in the discussion on [[Talk:Mathcircle|Mathcircle]], math circle are no American Invention. The first math circles similar to those, described in the article, first developped in Russia, probably. At least they were common during the cold war in the entire Eastern Bloc. The Kaplan Math Circle are nothing else, than the adoption of this system to American university environments with education scientific underlying. [[User:Toscho|Toscho]] ([[User talk:Toscho|talk]]) 11:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 05:38, 28 May 2011
Asking a number of math circle organizers in 5-2011 to get involved in revamping this page to better reflect the larger topic of math circles and serve as an appropriate jumping off point to specific math circle pages and topics. Djcordeiro (talk) 05:38, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
As mentioned in the discussion on Mathcircle, math circle are no American Invention. The first math circles similar to those, described in the article, first developped in Russia, probably. At least they were common during the cold war in the entire Eastern Bloc. The Kaplan Math Circle are nothing else, than the adoption of this system to American university environments with education scientific underlying. Toscho (talk) 11:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I modified the opening to acknowledge the source of math circles and foreground a bit more about their scope in terms of geography and age of students. I will also add some refs. More work is still needed to broaden the article. Praghmatic (talk) 21:53, 27 May 2010 (UTC)