Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math
Helping families to learn and enjoy math together.
If you want to know more about my playful math books, check out my new author page. You can post comments or send me a message. I’d love to hear from you!
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You can also join the Playful Family Math discussion group or find plenty of online mathy goodness at my original Let’s Play Math Facebook page.
🙂 See you there!
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 recent editions of this carnival.
Click here to submit your blog post
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, August 18th. The carnival will be posted next week at High Heels and No. 2 Pencils blog.
Help! I can’t keep the carnival going on my own. Hosting the blog carnival can be a lot of work, but it’s fun to “meet” new bloggers through their submissions. And there’s a side-benefit: The carnival usually 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.
While you’re waiting for next week’s Math Teachers at Play carnival, you may enjoy:
Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your free 24-page problem-solving booklet, and you’ll be among the first to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.
Playing with a new image editor, I came across this Winston Churchill quote. What a great description of how it feels to learn math!
If you have a student who struggles with math or is suffering from a loss of enthusiasm, check out Jo Boaler’s free online course on developing a mathematical mindset:
Or explore some of the playful activity ideas for all ages in her Week of Inspirational Math.
Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your free 24-page problem-solving booklet, and sign up to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.
Check out the new playful math blog carnival at Three J’s Learning blog. Joshua has put together a great collection of math games, activities, and teaching tips:
The carnival features shape puzzles, absolute value, prime numbers, pigs in pens, fair sharing, talking with kids, thoughtful essays, and even explosions. Along with a tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani, with mathematical ideas to explore in her honor.
Click here to go read the carnival blog
And if you’re a blogger, be sure to submit your blog post for next month’s carnival!
Past carnivals are still full of mathy treasure. Check them out:
CREDITS: “Inscribed Polyhedron” photo by thekirbster via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).
Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your free 24-page problem-solving booklet, and sign up to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.
A friend shared this video, and I loved it! From Kent Haines, a father who happens to also be a math teacher…
“I hope that this video helps parents find new ways of interacting with their kids on math topics.”
If you enjoyed Kent’s video, you’ll love Christopher Danielson’s book and blog.
It’s a short book with plenty of great stories, advice, and conversation-starters. While Danielson writes directly to parents, the book will also interest grandparents, aunts & uncles, teachers, and anyone else who wants to help children notice and think about math in daily life.
“You don’t need special skills to do this. If you can read with your kids, then you can talk math with them. You can support and encourage their developing mathematical minds.
“You don’t need to love math. You don’t need to have been particularly successful in school mathematics. You just need to notice when your children are being curious about math, and you need some ideas for turning that curiosity into a conversation.
“In nearly all circumstances, our conversations grow organically out of our everyday activity. We have not scheduled “talking math time” in our household. Instead, we talk about these things when it seems natural to do so, when the things we are doing (reading books, making lunch, riding in the car, etc) bump up against important mathematical ideas.
“The dialogues in this book are intended to open your eyes to these opportunities in your own family’s life.”— Christopher Danielson
Talking Math with Your Kids
CREDITS: “Kids Talk” photo (top) by Victoria Harjadi via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). “Parent Rules” by Kent Haines.
Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your free 24-page problem-solving booklet, and sign up to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.
[Photo by Olga Berrios via flickr.]
Do you have a favorite blog post about math activities, games, lessons, or hands-on fun? The Math Teachers at Play (MTaP) math education blog carnival would love to feature your article!
We welcome math topics from preschool through the first year of calculus. Old posts are welcome, as long as they haven’t been published in recent editions of this carnival.
Click here to submit your blog post
Don’t procrastinate: The deadline for entries is Friday, July 21. The carnival will be posted next week at Three J’s Learning blog.
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.
While you’re waiting for next week’s Math Teachers at Play carnival, you may enjoy:
Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your free 24-page problem-solving booklet, and you’ll be among the first to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.
Check out the new carnival of playful math for all ages at Math Mama Writes blog. Each month’s carnival brings you a great new collection of puzzles, math conversations, crafts, teaching tips, and all sorts of mathy fun.
This month’s post features books, animations, puzzles, and games. Early math, high school math, and writing in math class. Probability, statistics, and teaching tips. And much more!
Click Here to Read the Carnival Blog
Do you write an education or family blog? Classroom teacher, math coach, homeschooler, parent, college professor, unschooler — anyone interested in helping kids play around with math? Please consider volunteering to host the MTaP blog carnival for one month.
We still need volunteer hosts for fall semester 2017. Or plan ahead: 2018 is wide open.
You choose the month that fits your schedule and decide how much effort you want to put in. Writing the carnival can take a couple of hours for a simple post — or you can spend several days searching out and polishing playful math gems to share.
If you want more information, read the MTaP Math Education Blog Carnival home page. Then let me know which month you want.
CREDITS: Organ of Notre-Dame de Paris photo by Eric Chan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).
Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your free 24-page problem-solving booklet, and sign up to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.
Ooo, look at my shiny new book! Let’s Play Math is now out in Korean. How cool is that?
You can find the book at these two major bookstores:
And probably in other places where Korean education or parenting books are sold.
I’m sorry to say I can’t read Korean — but I did play math there a couple years back. My daughter teaches English through EPIK, and I had a wonderful visit with her in Jeju. If you’re interested, you can see a few of my photos here, and my fraction-math sidewalk puzzle here.
And if you know a Korean-speaking family who wants to play math with their kids, I’d be honored if you share my book.
Want to help your kids learn math? Claim your free 24-page problem-solving booklet, and sign up to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.
