Get a Taste of Playful Math with Two Carnivals

Posted on by Denise Gaskins
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Here is SOOOOO MUCH GREAT MATH!

Each monthly carnival brings you a new collection of ideas for playing math from preschool to high school. It’s like a free online magazine of mathematical adventures, helpful and inspiring no matter when you read them.

Explore with your kids or on your own:

173rd Playful Math Carnival

Johanna Buijs found a delightful assortment of knots, meanders, mazes and labyrinths, plus other math tidbits from around the world. Love it!

Visit Carnival 173

Playful Math Carnival 174

Sue VanHattum focused on the perplexing topics of fractions and division (and division of fractions) with puzzles, games, fractals, and delightful stories.

Visit Carnival 174

Help Us Keep the Carnival Going

The Playful Math Blog Carnival wants you!

The carnival is a joint effort. We depend on our volunteer hosts to collect blog posts and write the carnival each month.

Putting together a blog carnival can be a lot of work, but it’s a great opportunity to share the work of bloggers you admire and to discover new math-friends online. I love that part of being a host!

Classroom teachers, homeschoolers, college professors, unschoolers, or anyone who likes to play around with math — if you would like to take a turn hosting the carnival, please speak up!

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Podcast: Real Math and Family Fun

Posted on by Denise Gaskins

Christy Thomas interviewed me for her Keep Calm and Mother On podcast. We had a wonderful chat. I think you’ll enjoy it:

Real Math and Family Fun with Denise Gaskins

“School math sometimes is more stress-inducing. Real math is more freeing and more joyful, and just more interesting.

    “Real mathematics is basically applied common sense.

      “Real mathematics is noticing patterns, seeing connections, figuring things out.

        “These are all things that you can do. You do them in other areas of your life. Real mathematics draws on those same abilities and focuses those abilities on numbers, shapes, and patterns.

          “Real mathematics is about solving puzzles. It’s about creative reasoning. These are the things you want your child to understand.”

          —Denise Gaskins, Real Math and Family Fun

          Go Listen to the Interview

           
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          I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Christy. If you run a math, education, or homeschooling podcast, and you’d like to have me on sometime, I’d love to hear from you!

          Are you looking for more creative ways to play math with your kids? Check out all my books, printable activities, and cool mathy merch at Denise Gaskins’ Playful Math Store.

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          “Podcast: Real Math and Family Fun” copyright © 2021 by Denise Gaskins. Image at the top of the post copyright © Bruno Nascimento via Unsplash.com.