MTaP Playful Math Carnival

Puzzles, comics, problem-solving, and mathy conversations with kids‌—‌you’ll find all this and more at the new math education blog carnival. Check it out, click some links, and enjoy!

• Math(s) Teachers at Play 87

“Hello, and welcome to the 87th Edition of the monthly blog carnival “Math(s) Teachers at Play”. For those of you unaware, a blog carnival is a periodic post that travels from blog to blog. They take the form of a compilation post and contain links to current and recent posts on a similar topic. This is one of two English language blog carnivals around mathematics…

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There’s a feast of mathematical games and activities at this month’s Math Teachers at Play blog carnival Enjoy!

“Math Teachers at Play is a monthly blog carnival that compiles posts from several blogs under the theme of teaching math in unique and innovative ways. We’re thrilled to partner with them this edition and couldn’t help ourselves from including some interesting trivia and riddles centered on our edition number – Happy Number 86!

Click here to read the carnival post at ZenoMath.

The new Math Teachers at Play math education blog carnival is up for your browsing pleasure. Each month, we feature activities, lessons, and games about math topics from preschool through high school. Check it out!

• Math(s) Teachers at Play – 83rd Edition

[Photo by Steve Bowbrick. (CC BY 2.0)]

Hello, and welcome to the 83rd Edition of the monthly blog carnival “Math(s) Teachers at Play”.

It is traditional to start with some number facts around the edition number, 83 is pretty cool, as it happens. Its prime, which sets it apart from all those lesser compound numbers. Not only that, its a safe prime, a Chen prime and even a Sophie Germain prime, you can’t get much cool than that can you? Well yes, yes you can, because 83 is also an Eisenstein prime!!!!

Those of you who work in base 36 will know it for its famous appearance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “83, or not 83, that is the question…..”

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The January math education blog carnival is now posted for your browsing pleasure, featuring 23 playful ways to explore mathematics from preschool to high school:

• Math Teachers at Play #82

Highlights include:

Young children making bar graphs.
A wide variety of math games.
Fractions on a clothesline.
Quadrilaterals on social media.
Non-transitive dice.
Writing in math class.
Negative number calculations made physical.
Inverse trig graphing.
Function operations.
And much more!

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The new Math Teachers at Play math education blog carnival is up for your browsing pleasure. Each month, we feature activities, lessons, and games about math topics from preschool through high school. Check it out!

• Math Teachers at Play (MTaP) Blog Carnival #80

[Photo by Paul Downey. (CC BY 2.0 via Flickr)]

Welcome to the 80th Edition of the Math Teachers at Play (MTaP) blog carnival.

Before we dive into some math posts from around the web, let’s see what is special about the number eighty.

80 is…

• how long it took Phileas Fogg to travel around the world in Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days.
• 4 scores.
• commonly used in the “80:20 rule,” which originated from Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist…

…And more! Click here to read the whole carnival, featuring 17 posts of mathy awesomeness!

Math Teachers at Play is a traveling collection of math tidbits — games, lesson ideas, and more — from around the Internet. It moves around from month to month, and the September edition is now posted at 1001 Math Problems blog. What a fun list of math posts to browse!

• Special Blog Carnival Edition of 1001 Math Problems

Welcome to the 78th edition of the Math Teachers At Play math education blog carnival, which I am thrilled to be hosting this month in celebration of my soon-to-be-released book, Camp Logic. What is the blog carnival? It is a monthly snapshot of some interesting recent ideas and activities posted by math education bloggers all over the internet.

By tradition, I begin with a fun fact about the number 78:

Seventy-eight is the 12th triangle number, which means that it is the sum of the integers from 1 to 12. Therefore, it is also the total number of gifts given on the last day in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas!” …

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