The Mobile Mathematics Circle is designed for students who enjoy math and want the challenge of exciting topics that are normally outside the school curriculum. The Mobile Mathematics Circle introduces students to mathematics as a creative thinking tool through problem solving. Students engage problems in many areas, including Number Theory, Game Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorics. The Mathematics Circle is a weekly gathering of students of high school age guided by professional mathematicians. Some meetings are conducted by invited distinguished mathematicians brought in specially to work with the students in the Mathematics Circle.

The Mobile Mathematics Circle is sponsored by the  Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  University of South Alabama, Alabama Space Grant Consortium and Alabama EPSCoR.

Mathematics Circles build problem solving skills. Problems and problem solving are at the heart of mathematics and science. Real-world problems are rarely neat and tidy. Problems are often open-ended, paradoxical, and sometimes unsolvable. Research may even be required to understand the question. Research is open-ended problem solving. Students need exposure to deep problem solving for many reasons. Patience and organization are two of the most useful problem-solving skills, but they are rarely needed in solving school mathematics problems. Solving deep yet simple problems begins to give students the flavor of what it is like to be a working mathematician. 

The tradition of Mathematics Circles, which started in Hungary more than a century ago, spread over Europe and Asia, and has grown stronger and stronger worldwide as the years pass by. Mathematics Circles are usually run by a middle or high school teacher or university faculty and graduate students who consider it part of their professional duty to show younger students the joys of mathematics. Math Circles use problem solving to explore simple, elegant topics, many of which the students are already familiar with in some way, in much greater depth than the students have seen before. The wonders of mathematics, the joy of sharing common enthusiasm for the unknown, and the inspiration resulting from solving mathematical puzzles are some typical features of math circles.