Sonia Kovalevsky Days

About SK Days for Middle and High School Students

For more than twenty years Sonia Kovalevsky Days (SK Days) have been organized by AWM members and held at colleges and universities throughout the country. SK Days consist of a program of workshops, talks, and problem-solving competitions for high school and middle school students and their teachers, both women and men. The purposes are to encourage young women to continue their study of mathematics, to assist them with the sometimes difficult transitions between middle school and high school mathematics and between high school and college mathematics, to assist the teachers of women mathematics students, and to encourage colleges and universities to develop more extensive cooperation with middle schools and high schools in their area.

Below we have compiled a list of resources to support those interested in hosting an SK Day. If you have any questions, please contact the AWM office at awm@awm-math.org.

SK Day Organizational Overview

A Tutorial

Sample Registration Letter

Sample Budget

Sample Evaluation Form

Sample Flyers

Cryptography Number Theory
Binary Codes Slides and Handout Identification Numbers
Jefferson Wheel Cipher Drivers’ License Numbers
Caesar Cipher (Pre-Activity: Modular Arithmetic) Fibonacci Numbers & the Golden Ratio
Multiplication Cipher (Pre-Activity: Modular Arithmetic)
Cryptography Worksheet for Caesar & Multiplication Ciphers Topology
Cryptography & Matrices (Pre-Activity: Matrix Algebra) Topology Slides and Handout
Graph Theory Inspiring Mathematics
Euler Circuits Women in Mathematics
Hamiltonian Circuits Math Beyond the Classroom
Graph Coloring Why Do Mathematics?
Signed Graphs Sample Career Panel Questions
The Four Cubes Problem
Google Page Rank (Pre-Activity: Matrix Algebra) Games
Math Coloring Pages
Voting Theory Math Games for Primary Grades
Math & Voting Slides and Handout Middle School Jeopardy
Manipulability of Voting Systems Scavenger Hunt
Effect of Polling Tangrams

Barnard College and Columbia University and Urban Assembly Institute (2012)

California State University – Fresno (2014 – 2023)

Dartmouth College (2011)

Elizabeth City University (2006)

Iowa State University

Kansas State University (2021, 2023)

Lincoln University

Montgomery College

North Dakota State University (2012 – 2022)

Northern Arizona University (2009)

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2018 – 2022)

SUNY-Albany (1998)

University of Arizona (2015, 2018, 2019)

University of California – Irvine (2011)

University of Illinois Chicago (2019)

University of Wisconsin Eau Claire (2012 – 2023)

Valdosta State University (1996 – 2023)

Wichita State University (2022, 2023)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

*Note that these programs may not have received AWM funding every year that a SK Day occurred.

The AWM would like to thank those who contributed materials for this effort including Carolyn Starr, Katharine Ott, Jill Tysse, Omayra Ortega, Betty Mayfield, and Shanise Walker and special thanks to Keshet Weinstein for helping compile these resources.