This talk will focus on an initiative at Mars Hill University for co-curricular math exploration. Math faculty members use problems, activities, and puzzles from Math Circles to engage with students outside of the lecture classroom. The ideas used in the activities are applications that students would not necessarily encounter in the classroom but allow for exploration with patterns, strategies for games, and recognition of mathematics in everyday life. A large emphasis of the initiative is for students to realize that math can be fun!

Co-authors are Kerri Jamerson and Jennifer Rhinehart both of Mars Hill University