Quick Program Info (Fall 2024)

Location: San Francisco State University (click for a Google Map)

Classes: In-person classes that meet once per week

Grade levels: 2nd-5th grade (all classes are for 2nd-5th graders)

Days / times:

• Mondays: 4:15-5:15pm or 5:30-6:30pm

• Wednesdays: 5:15-6:15pm

• Saturdays: 10:00-11:00am or 11:15am-12:15pm

Dates:

• Monday classes: 10-week term starting on September 23 and ending on December 9 (no class on November 11 or November 25)

• Wednesday classes: 10-week term starting on September 25 and ending on December 11 (no class on November 20 or November 27)

• Saturday classes: 10-week term starting on September 28 and ending on December 14 (no class on November 23 or November 30)

Cost: $350 for the 10-week term

(See the "Cost & Financial Aid" tab in the "Full Program Details" section below for information about payment plans and financial aid)

Full Program Details (Fall 2024)

About us

At the San Francisco Math Circle, we make math accessible, inclusive, and fun!

The SF Math Circle is an extracurricular math enrichment program affiliated with the Center for Science and Math Education at San Francisco State University. SF Math Circle supports students from diverse backgrounds in developing their identities as capable, confident problem solvers.

In our after-school classes and camps, we provide a supportive, collaborative, and fun environment where students explore engaging, hands-on puzzles and games that involve both creativity and critical thinking.

Students explore these puzzles and games in small groups where they have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and to receive personalized attention and support from SF Math Circle facilitators.

Learn more about our approach to math and math education

Check out a sample of our activities

Please note that our focus is primarily on helping students to engage in creative mathematical exploration and problem-solving rather than building their skills in arithmetic or other traditional K-12 math.

Our Classes

Classes meet once per week and each class is 1 hour. Students spend the majority of the period exploring in small groups. There are typically 4-6 students and one facilitator per group.

While our classes have relatively large age ranges, our low-floor, high-ceiling activities and our small-group model (which allows us to group students by age) help to ensure that every student is able to explore in an age-appropriate way.

Cost & Financial Aid

The tuition for the Spring 2024 term of our SF State Math Circle is $350 per 10-week session.

We offer payment plans! If you opt for a payment plan, you can pay a portion of the full tuition upfront, and then pay the remaining amount in monthly installments.

If you're currently unable to afford the full tuition, we offer a limited number of reduced tuition scholarship spaces. In order to register for a scholarship, families must first complete ActivityHero's scholarship application and provide income verification.

(To complete the application, click on the link above, add the application to your cart, and then click the “Proceed to Checkout” button.)

After you have been approved for a scholarship by ActivityHero, you may register for a scholarship space. You may only register for a scholarship space after your scholarship application has been approved by ActivityHero. It may take ActivityHero up to a week to process and review your application, so if you will need financial aid, we encourage you to submit your scholarship application to ActivityHero ASAP.

If you have already applied for and received a scholarship for our Spring 2024 SF State Math Circle and / or our Summer 2024 Math Camp, you do not need to submit a new scholarship application. Instead, you will need to reach out to support@activityhero.com in order to register for a scholarship space for Fall 2024.

Note: ActivityHero is responsible for managing the scholarship application and approval process. If you have questions or are experiencing any difficulty, you can contact ActivityHero’s support team at https://help.activityhero.com/kb-tickets/new

Families who qualify for scholarship spaces will receive up to 90% reduced tuition (so they will pay only 10%). ActivityHero will determine the amount of the scholarship based on their review of the scholarship application.

Please note: In order to ensure the financial sustainability of our program, we will only be able to make scholarship spaces available after we have received a sufficient number of full-tuition registrations. So even if you have been approved by ActivityHero for a scholarship, you may not be able to register until we have received enough full-tuition registrations in order to be able to make additional scholarship spaces available.

If you can afford to pay more than the standard tuition to help us offer financial aid to families in need, please select the option to donate $25 or $50 to our financial aid fund when registering.

If you'd like to donate more than $50 to our financial aid fund, you can do so via our Donate page.

The tuition we charge allows us to cover the costs of the resources we provide, including:

• Activity design and development
• Facilitator training and preparation
• Low student-to-facilitator ratios

We appreciate your support in keeping Math Circle both accessible and sustainable!

Schedule

Here is the class schedule for our Spring term:

• Mondays: 4:15-5:15pm or 5:30-6:30pm

  Dates: 10-week term starting on September 23 and ending on December 9 (no class on November 11 or November 25)

• Wednesdays: 5:15-6:15pm

  Dates: 10-week term starting on September 25 and ending on December 11 (no class on November 20 or November 27)

• Saturdays: 10:00-11:00am or 11:15am-12:15pm

  Dates: 10-week term starting on September 28 and ending on December 14 (no class on November 23 or November 30)

Cancellation policy

Refunds will only be issued if you cancel your registration prior to the 3rd week of class. If you cancel your registration before the 3rd week of class, you have two options:

• You can choose to receive a refund for 85% of the pro-rated tuition for the remaining classes. (So, for example, if you cancel after the 2nd week of a 10-week term, you would be refunded 85% of the tuition for weeks 3-10.) The retained fees will go towards covering finance charges and administrative time.

• You can choose to use 100% of the pro-rated tuition for the remaining classes as credit toward future Math Circle classes or camps. (So, for example, if you cancel after the 2nd week of a 10-week term, you could use 100% of the tuition for weeks 3-10 as credit toward future registration.)

Please review the information on this page to make sure the program is a good fit before registering, and please feel free to contact us at info@sfmathcircle.org if you have any questions.

Questions?

Please check our Frequently Asked Questions page for answers to some of the most common questions. If you have a question that is not addressed there, please contact us at info@sfmathcircle.org