Welcome to the 47th edition of the Math Teachers at Play Blog Carnival!
http://bit.ly/MTAP47The Number Dictionary reveals two particularly interesting facts about 47.
- 47 is a prime and a Gaussian prime.
- 47 is the difference between two squares.
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I don’t think I’ve appreciated 47 nearly enough before this carnival. But we should move on since there are a lot of neat entries this month…
Welcome to the Math Teachers At Play blog carnival — which is not just for math teachers! Here is a smorgasbord of ideas for learning, teaching, and playing around with math from preschool to pre-college. Some articles were submitted by their authors, others were drawn from the immense backlog in my blog reader. If you like to learn new things, you are sure to find something of interest.
A child’s intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find… We must put into their hands the sources which we must needs use for ourselves, the best books of the best writers.
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For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body.
Princess Kitten and I took a longer than usual holiday break from homeschooling, but now I’m in plan-for-the-new-semester mode. I hope to include more living math in our schedule, so I decided to illustrate this edition of the MTaP carnival with a few of my favorite living math books. I’d love to hear more living book suggestions in the comments!
If you click on a book cover, the links take you to Amazon.com, where you can read reviews and other details (and where I earn a small affiliate commission if you actually buy the book), but all of these books should be available through your public library or via inter-library loan.
Let the mathematical fun begin…
Continue reading Math Teachers at Play #46: Living Books for Math
The Math Teachers at Play Carnival is up at Virtual Math Tutor for your browsing pleasure. Articles range from preschool to high school level in math, and topics include puzzles, worksheets, games, teaching tips, ideas for the math/science lover on your Christmas gift list, and the cutest math monster I’ve seen in ages. Great fun!
The new Math Teachers at Play blog carnival is up for your browsing pleasure:
If you think the carnival seems shorter than usual, you’re right. We had many more submissions, but it appears that the blog carnival website is having trouble again. If your article is missing (as mine is), I’m sorry! Please try again next month.
This is the first time I ever hosted a blog carnival so please bear with me.
While reading the posts submitted to this month’s Math Teachers at Play blog carnival, I was struck by how visualization is very important in teaching math, and just math in general. I was happy to read all the “visualization” posts since my recent interest is exactly in visual representations and how they help in learning, especially learning math.
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Welcome! I’m Caroline Mukisa from Maths Insider and the host of the the 43rd edition of the Math Teachers at Play carnival!
I’m delighted once again to be presenting a really cool range of math related blog posts and articles. This month, you’ll get to savor math posts related to McDonalds, Dexter, war, an ancient game, an inventor and more!
Do bookmark this page so you can come back and read any of the posts you don’t get time to read right now!
Go read Math Teachers at Play Carnival Number 43 – Fast Food, Crime Drama and More!
Bon Crowder has woven a nice variety of math links into a creative story for the September Math Teachers at Play carnival. Enjoy!
To mix things up a little, this month’s Math Teachers at Play Blog Carnival is a love story – between two people and then their new cute daughter. It’s a story of the coolest carnival of all – having kids.
The Story of Bernice and John, Mathematician Parents . . .
The new Math Teachers at Play blog carnival has plenty of fun for math fans of all ages:
Willkommen! Welcome to the Math Teachers at Play blog carnival! Whether you are a teacher, homeschooler, parent, or a math enthusiast interested in general discussions about mathematics, there is a little bit of something for everyone here. Some of these links came as direct submissions by bloggers, and the others came from my Google Reader.
To start, here are some fun facts about the number 41:
- Starting with 41, if you add 2, then 4, then 6, then 8, etc… you would get a string of 40 prime numbers in a row!
- 41 is also a Centered Square Number, which means that it is the sum of two consecutive squares — 4^2 and 5^2, in this case. Can you figure out how this picture relates to the Center Square Numbers, and use the picture to explain why all Center Square Numbers are 1 (mod 4)?
Go read the blog carnival at I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down…
Welcome to the Math Teachers At Play blog carnival — it’s not just for math teachers!
If you like to learn new things and play around with ideas, you’re sure to find something intriguing here. Don’t try to read all 40(!) posts at once; take the time to enjoy browsing. Savor a few posts today, and then come back for another helping tomorrow or next week.
At my fortieth birthday party, I got a few of those gag presents meant to remind me how terribly old I was getting. Math Teachers at Play is less than 40 months old (it used to come out twice a month), but just imagine how many great math posts have been included over the months, in all 40 issues.
Welcome to the Math Teachers At Play blog carnival — which is not just for math teachers! If you like to learn new things and play around with ideas, you are sure to find something of interest.
Several of these articles were submitted by the bloggers; others were drawn from my overflowing blog reader. Don’t try to skim everything all at once, but take the time to enjoy browsing. Savor a few posts today, and then come back for another helping tomorrow or next week.
Most of the photos below are from the 2010 MAA Found Math Gallery; click each image for more details. Quotations are from Mike Cook’s Canonical List of Math Jokes.
Let the mathematical fun begin…
Welcome to the May 20, 2011 edition of Math Teachers at Play. Before beginning the carnival, let us have some interesting facts about 38.
- The sum of the squares first three primes
- The number of years it took the Israelites to travel from Kadesh Barnea to the Zered valley in Deuteronomy
- There number of surviving plays written by William Shakespeare
- The atomic number of strontium
- Thirty seven and 38 are the first pair of consecutive positive integers not divisible by any of their digits.
Now, let the carnival begin!
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