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Calling All Math Teacher Bloggers and Homeschoolers: Carnival Time!
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The monthly Math Teachers at Play (MTaP) math education blog carnival is almost here. If you’ve written a blog post about math, we’d love to have you join us! Each of us can help others learn, so in a sense we are all teachers.
Posts must be relevant to students or teachers of school-level mathematics (that is, anything from preschool up to first-year calculus). Old posts are welcome, as long as they haven’t been published in past editions of this carnival.
Have you noticed a new math blogger on your block that you’d like to introduce to the rest of us? Feel free to submit another blogger’s post in addition to your own. Beginning bloggers are often shy about sharing, but like all of us, they love finding new readers.
Don’t procrastinate: The deadline for entries is this Friday, September 23. The carnival will be posted next week at CavMaths.
Would You Like to Host the Carnival?
Thank you so much to the volunteer bloggers who have stepped up to carry this MTaP math education blog carnival through the years! I would never be able to keep the carnival going on my own.
If you’d like to join in the fun, we have plenty of openings for 2016. Read the instructions on our Math Teachers at Play page. Then leave a comment or email me to let me know which month you’d like to take.
Explore the Other Math Carnivals
While you’re waiting for next week’s Math Teachers at Play carnival, you may enjoy:
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If You Read Fiction, Check This Out
I love reading fiction, especially when I find a good story by a new-to-me author. And that’s why I LOVE the Fiction River anthology series. I’ve been reading it for the last three years, and I just signed up for a two-year subscription renewal.
If you like page-turning, heart-wrenching, uplifting (mostly) stories that cross and transcend genre, check it out:
I’m not the only one who enjoys Fiction River — the Kickstarter drive met its funding goal in only 23 hours. Wow! But there’s still plenty of time to get in on the fun…
Making Sense of Arithmetic
Homeschoolers have an advantage in teaching math: As our students grow, our own understanding of math grows with them because we see how the ideas build on each other.
This is especially true for those of us with large families. We pass through the progression of concepts with each student, and every pass lays down another layer in our own minds.
If you’d like to short-cut that process, check out Graham Fletcher’s Making Sense of Elementary Math video series. He’ll walk you through the topics, showing how manipulatives help build early concepts and gradually give way to abstract calculations.
“Understanding the vertical progression of mathematics is really important in the conceptual development of everyone’s understanding. This whole Making Sense Series has truly forced me to be a better teacher.”
— Graham Fletcher
Math You Can Play Combo in Paperback and Ebook
If you’re interested in helping children learn math, I have special offer just for you:
- Save 20% off the individual ebooks or 35% off the paperback prices when you buy a combined 2-books-in-1 edition featuring the first two books in the Math You Can Play series together.
The 42 kid-tested games are simple to learn, quick to play, and require minimal preparation. Most use common household items such as cards or dice.
“Although the cover says games for young learners, the beauty of this book is that most of the games can easily be scaled up for older kids, teens, and even adults. My youngest is four and my oldest is 14, and I will be pulling games for all of them out of this book!
“I appreciate that most of the games are low floor, high ceiling – easy for a child to access, but can be played at a higher level through strategy or slight alterations to the rules. These are not drills disguised as games, but activities that require problem solving and strategy as well as calculation.”
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KenKen Classroom Puzzles Start Next Week
KenKen arithmetic puzzles build mental math skills, logical reasoning, persistence, and mathematical confidence. Puzzle sets are sent via email every Friday during the school year — absolutely free of charge.
What a great way to prepare your kids for success in math!
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How to Play
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Place the numbers from 1 to 6 into each row and column. None of the numbers may repeat in any row or column. Within the black “cages,” the numbers must add, subtract, multiply, or divide to give the answer shown.
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New Fantasy Adventure Novel by Homeschooled Teen Author
If you or your children enjoy clean fantasy tales, check out the new installment in my daughter’s serial quest adventure The Riddled Stone, now available at many online bookstores.
Click here to see the whole series.
How Can a Knight Fight Magic?
Trained by the greatest knight in North Raec, Sir Arnold Fredrico dreamed of valiant deeds. Save the damsel. Serve the king.
Dreams change. Now the land teeters at the brink of war. As a fugitive with a price on his head, Arnold struggles to protect his friends.
But his enemy wields more power than the young knight can imagine.
238 pages, ebook: $3.99, paperback: $14.99.
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Do You Blog About Math?
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It’s carnival time again. Activities, games, lessons, hands-on fun — if you’ve written a blog post about math, we’d love to have you join our Math Teachers at Play (MTaP) math education blog carnival.
Posts must be relevant to students or teachers of school-level mathematics (that is, anything from preschool up through first-year calculus). Old posts are welcome, as long as they haven’t been published in past editions of this carnival.
Don’t procrastinate: The deadline for entries is Friday, August 19. The carnival will be posted next week at The Usual Mayhem.
Have you noticed a new math blogger on your block that you’d like to introduce to the rest of us? Feel free to submit another blogger’s post in addition to your own. Beginning bloggers are often shy about sharing, but like all of us, they love finding new readers.
Would You Like to Host the Carnival?
Hosting the blog carnival is fun because you get to “meet” new bloggers through their submissions. And there’s a side-benefit: The carnival often brings a nice little spike in traffic to your blog. If you think you’d like to join in the fun, read the instructions on our Math Teachers at Play page. Then leave a comment or email me to let me know which month you’d like to take.
Explore the Other Math Carnivals
While you’re waiting for next week’s Math Teachers at Play carnival, you may enjoy:
- Browse past editions of the Math Teachers at Play blog carnival
- Carnival of Mathematics
- Carnaval de Matemáticas
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