Learn about the life and work of Joan Birman as described by a group of high school girls attending the camp Girls Talk Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By Nethania Okyere, Rachel Rozansky, Ashleigh Taylor, and Sylvia Towey.

Check out the corresponding blog post about the math problems these campers solved at https://girlstalkmath.com/2017/06/30/knot-theory/!

Many thanks to Girls Rock NC's Teen AXN League for the amazing intro/outro song!

Learn about the life and work of Joan Birman as described by a group of high school girls attending the camp Girls Talk Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By Nethania Okyere, Rachel Rozansky, Ashleigh Taylor, and Sylvia Towey. Check out the corresponding blog post about the math problems these campers solved at https://girlstalkmath.com/2017/06/30/knot-theory/! Many thanks to Girls Rock NC's Teen AXN League for the amazing intro/outro song!

Joan Birman

Girls Talk Math is a free math and media day camp for high school girls and non-binary students hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (since 2016), the University of Maryland, College Park (since 2018) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (since 2022).  Campers complete challenging problem sets in areas of mathematics that go beyond the high school curriculum, research the lives of mathematicians and scientists from marginalized groups, and share what they learned through blog posts and podcasts.

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Girls Talk Math is a free math and media day camp for high school girls and non-binary students hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (since 2016), the University of Maryland, College Park (since 2018) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (since 2022). Campers complete challenging problem sets in areas of mathematics that go beyond the high school curriculum, research the lives of mathematicians and scientists from marginalized groups, and share what they learned through blog posts and podcasts.

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