The Playful Math Carnival (formerly “Math Teachers at Play”) is now a quarterly collection of mathy fun: tips, tidbits, games, activities, and more.
It’s like a free online magazine of mathematical adventures for teachers, parents, and students in preschool through high school. If you like to learn new things and play around with ideas, you are sure to find something of interest.
The Playful Math Carnival is hosted by volunteer bloggers, with the exact day of publication left to the host’s discretion.
- Current edition: Playful Math Blog Carnival 186: Math Stories at Math Mama Writes
- October-December 2026: Carnival 187 at Math Hombre
- January-March 2027: Carnival 188 at Let’s Play Math
- April-June 2027: Carnival 189 at Nature Study Australia
- July-September 2027: Carnival 190 at Math Mama Writes
- October-December 2027: Carnival 191 at Math Hombre
Past Editions:
2026
- Playful Math 186: Math Stories at Math Mama Writes
- Playful Math 185: History of Mathematics at Nature Study Australia
- Playful Math 184: Carnival of Living Math at Let’s Play Math
2025
- Playful Math 183: Celebrating Mathy People at Math Hombre
- Playful Math 182: The Storytelling Carnival at Math Mama Writes
- Playful Math 181: The Symmetry Carnival at Nature Study Australia
- Playful Math 180: The Star Wars Carnival at Math Hombre
- Playful Math 179: Our Sweet Sixteen Carnival at Let’s Play Math
- Playful Math 178: Nicomachus’s Carnival at Let’s Play Math
2024
- Playful Math Carnival 177: Gamey, Artsy, Teachy, and Extry at Math Hombre
- Playful Math Carnival 176: A Fibonacci Rabbit Hole at Learning Well at Home
- Playful Math Carnival 175: A Spread of Math Delicacies at The Beauty of Play
- Playful Math Carnival 174: On Fractions & Division at Math Mama Writes
- Playful Math Carnival 173: Knots and Mazes at Nature Study Australia
- Playful Math Carnival 172: Celebrating Spring at Let’s Play Math
- Playful Math Carnival 171: Modern Math Artists at Let’s Play Math
2023
- Carnival 170: A Plethora of Playful Math at Let’s Play Math
- Carnival 169: A Playful Math Buffet at Math Hombre
- Playful Math 168: The Dominoes Carnival at Find the Factors
- Playful Math 167: A Happy Number Carnival at Learning Well at Home
- Playful Math Carnival 166: Celebrating 14 Years at Math Mama Writes
- Playful Math 165: The Random, the Unexpected, and the Outliers at Nature Study Australia
- Playful Math 164: The Automathography Carnival at Leap Of Dave
- Carnival 163: Math Holidays and Festivals at 1001 Math Problems
- Playful Math Education 162: The Math Games Carnival at Let’s Play Math
2022
- Playful Math 161: A Bite-Sized Carnival at Nature Study Australia
- The Colors-of-Fall Carnival: Playful Math 160 at Let’s Play Math
- Playful Math 159: The Lucky Carnival at Math Hombre
- Carnival 158: Rescued from Oblivion at Montessori Cosmos
- Carnival 157: Math Teachers at Play at Math Mama Writes
- Carnival 156: A World of Math at Nature Study Australia
- Playful Math 155: A Rich Round-Up at Math Hombre
- Carnival 154: The Math Journaling Edition at Let’s Play Math
- Playful Math Carnival 153: Honoring Ukraine at Find the Factors
- Playful Math 152: Auld Lang Syne Edition at Let’s Play Math
2021
- Playful Math Education 151: A Prime Edition at Math Hombre
- Carnival 150: Keeping Playful Math Alive at Let’s Play Math
- Playful Math 149: Celebrating Math in Nature at Nature Study Australia
- Carnival 148: Books, Games, and Puzzles at Math Book Magic
- Playful Math Education 147: The Anniversary Continues at Let’s Play Math
- Playful Math 146: So Many Ways to Play at Find the Factors
- Playful Math Carnival 145: Enjoy the Ride at Math Hombre
- Playful Math Carnival 144: The Anniversary Edition at Let’s Play Math
Thank you all for volunteering to host!
- Browse earlier editions of the Playful Math Carnival on Pinterest or by scrolling backward down my blog.
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Hi, I would like to volunteer to be a host of the Math Education Blog Carnival on my math blog:
http://mathtuition88.com/math-blog
Thanks and have a nice day!
That would be great! I’ll send you an email…
Hi, I would also like to volunteer to be a host to this carnival. I find really great. Here is my math blog:
http://lifethroughamathematicianseyes.wordpress.com/
Thank you. ^_^
I would love to host the carnival! I’ve been following along for awhile and now feel like I’m ready!
http://mrseteachesmath.blogspot.com/
I would love to host a carnival…www.theothersideoftheequation.com
I’d love to host the carnival Sept. 2017.
Thank you, Iva!
In recent months, we’ve only gotten a few entries through the carnival submission form. So I suggest you begin now to bookmark anything you find interesting to include in your carnival.
I would like to try hosting, if I may. My blog’s at https://nebusresearch.wordpress.com and its most regular feature is a Reading the Comics of the past week’s mathematically-themed comic strips, which I think might be recreational enough.
Joseph, I tried to send you an email. But since you didn’t respond, I assume that got lost in the ether. Please take a look at the schedule above to find a month that fits your life, then email me at “lets play math at gmail dot com” so I can set that date aside for you.
Hi Denise, I would love to host a playful math carnival on my mathy/Montessori blog: http://www.Montessoricosmos.org. Thanks!!
Great! I sent you an email.