San Francisco Math Circle

My daughter had a great time doing math activities! Really nice event.

Wonderful program that provides mathematical activities and experience that my kid doesn’t get in her regular school class. I would highly recommend it!

The activities were fun, challenging and engaging. The staff was kind and my kids liked working with them.

My daughter loves Math Circle. Every week, she comes home talking about a new math puzzle or game, and what she learned from it. It's totally non-overlapping with school math, and it's teaching her to solve puzzles and problems in a new way. She says the teachers are really friendly, and the other kids are fun too.

Thoughtful, well-organized camps for kids of all skill levels.

My kids loved Math Circle and looked forward to it every time. The program is very different from "school math" and indeed won't particularly help with "school math" like a tutoring program would. It's meant to make math fun and interesting and to cultivate mathematical thinking and problem solving. It's very low pressure and encouraging. A small number of kids work with the guidance of an instructor and basically play games and do fun activities that are math-y. My kids got really into the activities and would often want to keep going with them after class was over, describing them in great detail over dinner. I was consistently impressed by the quality of the program and what the kids were learning. There was a lot of spatial reasoning, geometry (fitting shapes together with various constraints), activities that dealt with probability, and one of my favorites was a lesson about gerrymandering!

My son loves this summer camp and looks forward to it every year

Math circicle has been a wonderful experience for my child. It is a perfect way for her to use the fundamentals of math that she has been developing in practical applications. The sessions are always fun and entertaining and keeps my child excited to come back for more. In addition, the instructors are experienced and provide a positive learning environmet.

My kids have enjoyed the San Francisco Math Circle camps and activities for several years. We commute quite far to attend camp, it's not easy for us to get to! But every year, the kids have asked to go back. The activities are engaging - and all of our family enjoys the chance to to try them out during the open house on the last day of camp.

We love SF Math Circle! Their math games are easy for kids to pick up and think about, but complex enough to engage my PhD in math partner. Their counselors are incredible too!

San Francisco Math Circle offered our children great experience. They learn a great deal in this program.

My son loved these sessions and the teachers are great at communicating with parents.

SF Math Circle is a local treasure. My kids love the festivals and can't wait to age into the camps and regular sessions. We dream of the day we can bring this programming to our local public school so all our community's kids can participate.

My daughter loved learning about math concepts through different games. Each week was a new concept and a new game. It almost felt like a trick, but learning math can be fun! Plus a great way to demonstrate how math can be applied to “real life.” The staff were welcoming and encouraging. Highly recommended for all curious kids.

Our kid loves the creative approach to mathematical thinking at Math Circle, based largely in engaging activities and games. He is often excited to show us what they were doing and how it works after each session. And I see it as a huge benefit that the staff facilitating the sessions are teachers in training.

My son really enjoyed the Math Camp at SF State last summer. As a parent I really appreciated how they gave us a little written summary at pickup of what the kids did that day. There were interesting games and brain teasers that made math fun and engaging.

My 9 year old had a fantastic time! It was enjoyable, fun, informative, and educational. We have tried other math avenues, including Stanford math programs, and this one was clearly the winner for our child!

Match Circle makes math fun! It is puzzles and problem solving. My kids 11 and 13 love it. It's a nice compliment to their other love - soccer

My son loved math camp! He enjoyed the non- traditional ways of learning math and hands on exercises. His teachers were also young and very engaging and patient.

Great, affordable and my kid loves the class. He thinks math is fun, so that is a win!

My child attended a virtual math circle event during the pandemic. It was well-organized and kept her engaged on Zoom (which is no small feat!). I would recommend this to other parents in a heartbeat.

Math Circle is great! My son enjoys all the mathematic games.

Really fun math learning for my kid. Even though the program was done online during Covid, he had a great time and made a few friends.

We've seen our daughter's excitement for Math make a marked improvement in the time that she's been going to Math Circle. Their focus on conceptual thinking over numerical calculation makes a huge difference, by turning math from a computation challenge into an engaging game.

The kids loved it, but they would like to stop and take some time off.

My daughter says, “So good! Amazing! The best! I like everything about Math Circle!”

Our son attended in early 2022, loved the session, very engaging. I wish these were longer or more then 2 offerings a year.

My son has had a lot of fun doing Math Circle! He’s learning while laughing. Who can ask for more?

Great organization fostering the love of math in kids!

My Son looks forward to these classes every week. He is learning Maths in the truest sense of puzzles and games. The staff are very helpful and accommodating. They have "fun" in the class rooms, discussing current topics, and games, and then play a game or puzzle when learning math. The classes are highly interactive and fun.

The volunteers and staff are very helpful. The games are really fun and engaged. My 6 years old boy loves all the games there.

kids having a lots of fun！ a different way to approaching logic thinking through the games.

So many varied and high quality activities for the kids. The Math Circle teachers were excellent too. They asked my children probing questions that revealed how they were thinking about the problems. My kids can’t wait for the next Math Circle event.

Well-thought-out, game-centric curriculum that my 8-year-old loves. Educational and challenging, yet anything but another chore on a kid's calendar.

I was keen to enrich my child's SFUSD math offerings with something more compelling, and Math Circle fits the bill! Every week he tells me how interesting it was. He also thinks it's pretty cool working with college students.

My son loves their virtual Math Circle. He enjoys the activities. Please, continue with the virtual Math Circle program.

My son loves this class and he wants to join again!

Very happy with the first class . According to my daughter “It was fun!”. My daughter liked Miss Cindy. Looking forward to the future classes.

Excellent and fun program taught by a kind, patient, and SUPERB staff….highly experienced and wonderful with children of all ages!

Excellent and fun program taught by a kind, patient, and SUPERB staff….highly experienced and wonderful with children of all ages!

My 10 year old 4th grader absolutely loved this class. The teachers were attentive and engaging. She enjoyed writing scientific notes in her journal and doing the experiments. I highly recommend this course.

My daughter loves it. She said she want to jit again next time.

It was the best my son ever had he, loves it. I really recommend.

My 9 year old son was really engaged in the program. He always looked forward for the week after to participate. Now he's even more excited for the Session 2. Thank you.

We would highly recommend to family and friends. My daughter really enjoyed the Math Circle session which was part of the Bay Area Science Festival. She was in a 45-min session with a facilitator and 2 other kids playing Chocolate Chomp. It was a great and fun way to learn strategy and addition/subtraction skills.

SF Math Circle get children to learn about math though mini board games. They have a good instruction approach, qualified staff, and adapted well to the online teaching.

My child absolutely loved Math Circle classes this summer and it was the only online activity she was actually excited about getting back on the computer for!

My daughter had tons of fun in the class and was so sad when the class ended!

I would definitely recommend it to EVERYONE! It was so fun! I really enjoyed it! I enjoyed doing the games and then sharing it with my mom and my friends and teachers!

David Klein and his talented team of math educators have really responded to the needs of family during school on the go - we are so grateful for their out of the box thinking and responsiveness - I had a hard time getting my girls to do math yet they really enjoyed this program! Thank you!!

My son has attended Math Circle at Starr King Elementary school for two years in a row and he has been truly enjoying the experience. The camp is well organized and interactive, and I like that it doesn’t follow the school curriculum for Math.

The Math Circle team has done a great job adapting to a remote environment. The instructors are friendly and supportive, and able to engage the kids even through the computer. The communication is very thorough, and my kids have enjoyed being able to continue to attend Math Circle even though they can't go to in-person classes right now.

We love the Math Circle community and really appreciate the online classes offered amid the pandemic.

Great program my young lad has been attending for a number of years. He loves it and Spencer and the rest of the instructors are great people. Great job folks!!!!

We love SF Math Circle. The activities are engaging and fun and really make the kids think, while they're laughing and talking and playing. Cannot recommend it highly enough! We love the program both at SFSU and at Schoolhouse.

Highly recommended!! My child has been to a number of math circles and this one is by far the best. The instructor is kind and nurturing. The math circle engages kids to have logical thinking while having fun.

The instructor to student ratio is great, and my 7 year old daughter loved the approach which is not like Kahn Academy, Dreambox, etc traditional drills. She picked up critical thinking concepts and theory with Math Circles approach. Math Circle also uses some custom built programs you use in the browser, so it also showcases great coding examples.

We love SF Math Circle. The activities are engaging and fun and really make the kids think, while they're laughing and talking and playing. Cannot recommend it highly enough! We love the program both at SFSU and at Schoolhouse.

Math Camp-SF is really great. My son has loved everything he has done with SF Math Circle, including the online gatherings and the camps in past summers. The math is not your everyday math, rather is much more interesting and challenging. Math Circle SF would be a great addition for any student who loves math.

My kids enjoy all sorts of fun math activities in Math Circle. Their brain teasing math games helped kids think math is everywhere in life, not just in school work.

I highly recommend it!! This was a well-run, inclusive, enriching and FUN program for my 3rd grade daughter.

My grand daughter loves Math Circle. This was her first time attending and so happy that she enjoys it. It is so important that she is having fun while learning which has helped with her confidence in and out of school and to have a more positive attitude.

So much fun! My daughter loves it and is really looking forward to moving into the 4th-5th grade circle!

This is my son's first time attending Math Circle. He enjoyed the activities done during class. Counselor to student ratio is low. One counselor per table (4-5 kids). He was very enthusiastic about the projects were done in class and eager to share what he had learned/done.

My daughter loves math circle. She tells me that she's not doing math like at school, rather she says she's doing puzzles and games and that it's really fun. I love that she's having fun learning and that math circle helps her develop a positive attitude about math.

My kids (6 and 11) enjoyed Math Circle. They had fun learning math outside the school materials. Staffs are friendly and nice.

Highly recommend!! What a gem of a summer camp! My son loved this camp. The teachers provided fun and creative ways to learn about Math. The games and activities were very engaging.

Anthony is very happy with math circle he really likes to learn Math. We are very happy thank you.

Highly recommend!!! Our son *loves* SF Math Circle. The teachers are super fun, kind and patient, and our son has so much fun playing interesting games, learning new patterns, and engaging in their activities. It's turned math into a hobby and sparks his curiosity.

My son has been attending Math Circle at SF State since Spring 2018 and he loves it. He is always excited and interested by the activities they do and the new things he learns. It's very different from regular school math, which is perfect for him. He can't wait for Math Camp this summer and we will definitely be back again in the fall.

Our child loves Math Circle. The games are engaging and learning is super fun.

Fantastic teachers and classes that my daughter enjoys every session she attends. Great and dedicated teachers that put together an extremely thoughtful lesson each week and work with kids explore Math thinking. Your child doesn't have to be a "math maverick" to attend and in fact may not even recognize that they are learning mathematical thinking, but rather just doing interesting and fun projects. I can't say enough great things about this program and the teachers.

This is a wonderful program. It helps kids develop problem-solving skills while playing fun games. My daughter enjoys this group and I can see she's showing more interest in Math and its applications.

My son loves Math Circle! And I love the fact that they are inspiring my son to love Math, even though he struggles with arithmetic!

My 10-year-old daughter loves going to Math Circle. I had the opportunity to visit a class, and I was impressed with the accessible yet high-level tasks the students were exposed to. The teachers asked probing questions that challenged the kids to go deeper in their thinking.

Fun for the kids. Positive feedback from my child.

My son attended SF Math Circle for three years, starting in 3rd grade and I cannot recommend it enough. They showed him how Math is in everything we do and gave my son a perspective that he was not getting in standard school. Now he's in a Math-centered private school enjoying himself more than he ever has.

Both my son and daughter have had wonderful experiences at SF Math Circle over the years. Learning to problem solve, think creatively and appreciate a different point of view of Math.

Daughter looks foward to Math circle. She's learning without feeling pressured.

My 2nd grade daughter was lukewarm about Math Circle before attending. Now she tells me that she likes it because it's different from her regular Math in school. She really enjoys the Geometry. I'm all for children, especially girls, to have experiences that make them EXCITED about Math, Science, Arts, and everything else.

Engaged and inspiring teachers lead a very unique way of giving kids a different way of looking at math. The class is so important in teaching kids critical thinking strategies that will help them in all subjects and in life.

My kids really enjoy to participate in the class of Math Circle, whose programs contain so interesting and educational stuff that make children want to know about Math!! My son, 8 years old, and daughter, 10 years old, said to me "what they have been learning from Math Circle is quite different from their school, more challenge, more fun!!" That’s why they love to go Math Circle class!!

My son has had a lot of fun at San Francisco Math Circle!

Our 12yo son went from ‘hating’ math to loving and even excelling in it through Math Circle.

We would recommend this to other parents in a heartbeat!! The Math Circle team did an amazing job inspiring my son and his 2nd grade classmates with fun and creative math puzzles and games.

My daughter has gained a love for math thanks to SF Math Circle. The program and the instructors are absolutely the best!

My son Max likes Math Circle. It is fun learning experience to him. The teachers are very patient and making math learning interesting. We love it.

The dedicated staff kept my child engaged and she looked forward to each week!

My son loves Math Circle so much. He is interested in every lesson and enjoyed himself so much. He is more active and excited to share his learning experiences with us. SF Math circle helps children to improve their logical thinking and practice ability. It is a really super good and wonderful program.

My husband I almost didn’t believe Ethan was our son because he’s so good at mathematics and truly enjoys it (lol)! Luckily, Math Circle was offered and exposed him to new and different math concepts that are different from what he’s learning in class. He is engaged, enjoys learning even more and is excited about it. It’s a win all around!

I'd definitely recommend SF Math Circle to kids who are curious (and not necessarily interested in math), enjoy working with others, and are into experiential learning. My kids have participated at the SFMC elementary school, middle school, and summer school programs. They really enjoy the "gaming" approach to teaching mathematical concepts used in the SFMC curriculum, and have discovered ways to think logically and creatively by studying codes, paper folding patterns, playing card puzzles, and other activities shown by the instructors.

My 2nd-grader has ranked this at the top of his afterschool activities, tied with coding (and that's saying a lot). He LOVES math circle, and comes out of the session so completely stimulated, he's bouncing around the campus on our trek to the parking garage. The activities are completely outside of normal classroom math, and touch on a wide range of concepts and ideas. We're hooked, and feel very lucky to have found out about it.

My son really enjoyed going to Math Circle classes. He really got a deep appreciation of how many ways you can approach an equation.

Fantastic program for exposing kids to advanced mathematical concepts in a fun, relaxed, and team oriented way. Designed to expand their minds, not drill in too many concepts or teach to a test. Instructors are enthusiastic and knowledgeable.

Excellent learning environment that encourage curiosity and challenge.

Math circle makes math fun!!!! I really like going to Math Circle.

My kid loved Math Circle, it is fun with math. Thinking about math in ways that relate to our world. The counselors are great and make it a fun week!

It was a good experience for my child. She told me Math Circle teaches her different ways of thinking. Just one comment, it would be good if the course is more affordable.

I can't even properly express how grateful I am for Math Circle. My middle school son just absolutely loves it and is so sad in between sessions because he misses it. He is inspired, excited and challenged by it. He has so much fun that he wishes it were every day! It is a real gift that you are giving to these children.

It's super fun ! Put my daughter in for extra math skills . And she learned how to enjoy it!

My 11 year old loves Math Circle, especially the excellent teachers and challenging recreational math.

The best! Challenges the children to "think" , analyze and to draw meaningful conclusions .