Playful Math 184: Carnival of Living Math

Playful Math Carnival 184

Welcome to the 184th edition of the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival — a smorgasbord of delectable tidbits of mathy fun. It’s like a free online magazine devoted to learning, teaching, and playing around with math from preschool to high school.

With all the links, a blog carnival can feel overwhelming. Bookmark this article, so you can take your time reading the posts.

“Living math” means bringing our children face-to-face with the big ideas of mathematics to help them develop their reasoning skills. When the ideas of math come to life for our children, their minds delight in seeing how numbers and shapes connect to each other and exploring these relationships.

Scattered between the playful math links below, you’ll find quotations from my new book Charlotte Mason’s Living Math, along with several paintings of children playing and learning which I considered for the book but ran out of room.

“The lesson” by Rafael Frederico, 1895.

By tradition, we start the carnival with a puzzle/activity in honor of our 184th edition. But if you’d rather jump straight to our featured blog posts, click here to see the Table of Contents.

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Playful Math Carnival 183 via Math Hombre

Have fun with math at the Playful Math Blog Carnival

If you’re into math education — or just curious about how learning math could possibly be fun — you’ll definitely want to check out the latest edition of the Playful Math Carnival.

It’s a collection of awesome blog posts curated by John Golden and published on the Math Hombre website:

The whole point of the carnival is to show that math doesn’t have to be tedious or repetitive. Through a bunch of fun and engaging posts, we celebrate math that’s playful, creative, and totally relevant to everyday life.

Because what could be more relevant than having fun while we learn?

In this edition, you’ll find everything from math puzzles and games to humor and much more — so many people creating great math content.

If you want to mix up your math teaching and make it more enjoyable for your students (and for yourself), definitely check out the Playful Math Carnival.

Happy reading!

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Playful Math 182: The Storytelling Carnival

two children digging in the yard

Would you like some great ideas for reading and playing math with your kids?

Sue VanHattum put together a delightful collection of mathematical fiction in honor of Math Storytelling Day:

What are you waiting for? Come join the fun!

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Playful Math 181: The Symmetry Carnival

Playful Math Carnival 181

If you’re looking for entertainment to while away the winter (or summer, for those of us up north!) — or if you’re just curious about how learning math could possibly be fun — you’ll definitely want to check out the latest edition of the Playful Math Carnival.

It’s a collection of awesome blog posts curated by Johanna Buijs and published on the Nature Study Australia website:

The whole point of the carnival is to show that math doesn’t have to be tedious or repetitive. Through a bunch of fun and engaging posts, we celebrate math that’s playful, creative, and totally relevant to everyday life.

Because what could be more relevant than having fun while we learn?

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Playful Math Carnival 180 via Math Hombre

carnival party banner

If you’re into math education — or just curious about how learning math could possibly be fun — you’ll definitely want to check out the latest edition of the Playful Math Carnival.

It’s a collection of awesome blog posts curated by John Golden and published on the Math Hombre website:

The whole point of the carnival is to show that math doesn’t have to be tedious or repetitive. Through a bunch of fun and engaging posts, we celebrate math that’s playful, creative, and totally relevant to everyday life.

Because what could be more relevant than having fun while we learn?

In this edition, you’ll find everything from math puzzles and games to humor and much more — even an interesting math art game.

So if you want to mix up your math teaching and make it more enjoyable for your students (and for yourself), definitely check out the Playful Math Carnival. Happy reading!

Go Visit the Carnival

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Playful Math 179: Our Sweet Sixteen Carnival

Welcome to the sweet-16 birthday edition of the Playful Math Carnival. Originally called Math Teachers at Play, our first carnival was published in February 2009.

Each Playful Math Carnival offers a smorgasbord of delectable tidbits of mathy fun. It’s like a free online magazine devoted to learning, teaching, and playing around with math from preschool to high school.

There’s so much playful math to enjoy!

By tradition, we start the carnival with a math activity in honor of our 179th edition. But if you’d rather jump straight to our featured blog posts, click here to see the Table of Contents.

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Playful Math 178: Nicomachus’s Carnival

Playful Math Blog Carnival 178

Welcome to the 178th edition of the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival — a smorgasbord of delectable tidbits of mathy fun. It’s like a free online magazine devoted to learning, teaching, and playing around with math from preschool to high school.

Bookmark this post, so you can take your time browsing.

There’s so much playful math to enjoy!

By tradition, we start the carnival with a puzzle/activity in honor of our 178th edition. But if you’d rather jump straight to our featured blog posts, click here to see the Table of Contents.

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Start the New Year Right: Playful Math Carnival 177 via Math Hombre

Talking Numbers from Playful Math Carnival 177

If you’re looking for an entertaining way to weather the coming storm — or just curious about how learning math could possibly be fun — you’ll definitely want to check out the latest edition of the Playful Math Carnival.

It’s a collection of awesome blog posts curated by John Golden and published on the Math Hombre website:

The whole point of the carnival is to show that math doesn’t have to be tedious or repetitive. Through a bunch of fun and engaging posts, we celebrate math that’s playful, creative, and totally relevant to everyday life.

Because what could be more relevant than having fun while we learn?

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Celebrate Fibonacci Day with Playful Math Carnival 176

Fibonacci Spiral

Fibonacci Day is November 23rd (11/23 in the American date style), and this year it falls on a Saturday.

But that’s no excuse not to celebrate!

We can do math on the weekend, you know. Or we can just play in advance of the day itself. In fact, we could take a whole Fibonacci Week and not run out of interesting math to play with.

Sonya Post has our back with lots of great ideas:

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Don’t Miss Playful Math Carnival 175 via The Beauty of Play

photo of math art painting

Della Parker hosted the Playful Math Carnival with a delicious spread of math delicacies. Check out all the mathy inspiration, games, and hands-on activity ideas:

The blog carnival is like a free online extravaganza of mathematical play, a virtual map to articles by teachers and bloggers all around the world.

I love how there’s always something new to learn. 💖

[By the way, we still need carnival hosts for 2025. If you have a blog or website and would like to volunteer for a month, read the details at the carnival’s home page.]

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Image at the top of the post copyright © Della Parker / The Beauty of Play blog.