36 has long been one of my favorite numbers, but faced with this carnival, it was hard to figure out why. It’s a square number that’s a product of two squares, but that’s not too rare. (Why?) It’s the 6th perfect square and the sum of the first six odds, but that’s not too remarkable. (Why?) It’s the 8th triangular number, but not a Sierpinski step or anything… wait! It’s a square triangular number? How common is that? 1, 36, then…?
Support Your Favorite Blog Carnival!
[Photo by kevindooley.]
A math carnival is like “the shop-front of the mathematics blogging world” — a place to browse and enjoy all the wide variety of mathematics on the web. Blog carnival hosts put in several hours of work every month to bring you the riches of the internet.
If you blog about learning or teaching math from pre-school to pre-college, now is the time to send in your contribution for this month’s Math Teachers at Play carnival. We welcome posts from parents, teachers, homeschoolers, and students — anyone who is interested in playing around with school-level or recreational math. Each of us can help others learn, so in a sense we are all teachers.
Support The Carnivals
The math carnivals are a great resource for all of us who enjoy reading and learning about mathematics, and especially for math bloggers who appreciate the wider audience the carnivals provide. But blog carnivals do not happen by themselves — there is a lot of work involved.
Here’s how you can help:
- Leave a comment to thank and encourage the host.
- Link to and promote the carnival on your blog or social network.
- Volunteer to host a future edition at your own blog.
- How to Host a Blog Carnival
Mike at Walking Randomly has hosted the Carnival of Mathematics two of the last three months, and that’s not good for the long-term health of the carnival. If you’re interested in helping out, check the future hosts tab at the blog carnival page and pick a month that works for you, then email Mike and tell him you’re available.
Similarly, you can check on upcoming editions of the Math Teachers at Play carnival, and let me know if you’d like to host. Or contact Guillermo Bautista to volunteer for Mathematics and Multimedia.
Recent Math Blog Carnivals
Did you miss any of these recent blog carnivals? Delightful mathy browsing is only a click away…
- Mathematics and Multimedia #8
- Wild About Math Blogs 3/3
- Carnevale della Matematica #34
- Math Teachers at Play#35
For homeschooling or other educational carnivals, check out the Blog Parties for Teachers widget in my sidebar. Enjoy!
MTaP #35: Two New Posts
For those of you who read the RSS feed (and thus don’t get to see my changes to old stuff), two of the bloggers featured in MTaP #35 have published follow-up posts:
With those two posts added in, I believe Math Teachers at Play #35 now features exactly 35 posts about fun ways to teach math (not counting the links to the other math blog carnivals). Cool!
Math Teachers at Play #35
Welcome to the Math Teachers At Play blog carnival — which is not just for math teachers.
Do you enjoy math? I hope so! If not, browsing these links just may change your mind. Most of these posts were submitted by the bloggers themselves; others are drawn from my overflowing Google Reader. From preschool to high school, there are plenty of interesting things to learn.
Let the mathematical fun begin…
Math Teachers at Play #34 via Mathematics and Multimedia
Welcome to the 34th edition of the Math Teachers at Play Carnival. Since it is new year, we will be talking about cakes, best of 2010, and calendars…
Math Teachers at Play #33 via Old Math Dog
The Math Teachers at Play blog carnival is open for your browsing pleasure at An “Old Math Dog” Learning New Tricks. Topics include:
- humor
- construction
- baking
- water gun battles
- football
- ABCs
- puzzles, games, and much more… Enjoy!
Math Teachers at Play #32 via Point of Inflection
[Sung to the tune of the Gilligan’s Island song.]
The carnival is up and now it’s time to click away.
Go check out all the links in this month’s Math Teachers at Play.
There’s algebra, geometry, and some Egyptian vids,
Equations, jokes, domes, real numbers, and games for all the kids….
Catching Up on the Carnivals
My Blog Parties for Teachers sidebar widget is now updated with the latest carnivals. If you host an education blog carnival that you think my readers might enjoy, please email me a link.
- Now is the time to send in your post for the November Math Teachers at Play carnival. If you blog about learning, teaching, or understanding math at any level from preschool to first-year calculus, or if you have any math games or puzzles you would like to share, we’d love to hear from you! Just use this handy submission form.
- The November Carnival of Mathematics is posted at Theorem of the Day for your browsing pleasure.
- Sol has been posting a weekly sort-of-carnival called Wild About Math Blogs. Check it out!
- The Mathematics & Multimedia Carnival is moving to the last week of the month, but you can still enjoy October’s edition.
Math Teachers at Play #31 via Homeschool Bytes
Math Teachers at Play #31 offers ten posts about learning and teaching math (appropriate for the 10th month of ’10) at Homeschool Bytes.
Mixing play with learning math is so much more effective for my kids. So, here are some great ideas on how to take the “boring” out of learning math and make it an Adventure . . .
Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival #4 via Wild About Math
Welcome to the 4th edition of the Mathematics and Multimedia Blog Carnival … Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 2. Four is also a highly composite number … 4 is the smallest squared prime (p2) and the only even number in this form ….
Reminder: Math Posts Wanted
Now is the time to send in your blog posts for the next Math Teachers at Play blog carnival, coming this Friday to Homeschool Bytes. You don’t have to be a teacher to join in the fun! MTaP covers mathematics from preschool through the first year of calculus, and we welcome any posts about learning, teaching, or just playing around with math.
- Check out last month’s MTaP carnival.
Would you like to host an edition of the MTaP? Read How To Host a Blog Carnival, and then drop me an email or leave a comment on this post.
Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 