2025 RabbitMath Summer Camp for Students who have completed Grades 8-11

We work (and play!) with hands-on activities that are based primarily on the Ontario Math Curriculum, but that are quite different from problems normally found in today’s classroom.  Our emphasis is on the analysis and navigation of dynamic structures. Our activities are “low-floor, high-ceiling” in the sense that students at different grade levels can work together on the problems that arise.  Many of our problems interact with technologies such as Desmos. Our counsellors are Queen’s students, grads and undergrads, who give the students a real campus summer experience.

If you’ve been to RabbitMath before, you might have noticed that the grade levels are a year higher than last year. That doesn’t mean that we are changing the level of the activities we work with and that we will no longer accept students going into grade 8. What we are saying is that we can be sure that students who have grade 8 will have the background needed for the camp experience. The technical requirements are things like facility with the x-y coordinate system, the Pythagorean Theorem, the distance between two points in the plane, and good arithmetic skills. Students who have only grade 7, but who believe they have these skills, are welcome to get in touch with me. peter.taylor@queensu.ca

The 2025 dates of the camp are July 28 – Aug 1, and this year we have a residential option—students can stay in the Queen’s residences. These are right on the Lake Ontario waterfront, a marvellous place to spend a few late summer days.

Registration for 2025 is now open. To Register click here. For more information on Math Camps offered at Queen’s University click here.

There is a bursary program which can pay a portion of the costs but of course the total funds available are limited.

Questions can be addressed to peter.taylor@queensu.ca