MTaP Playful Math Carnival

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!

Click here to enjoy plenty of mathy fun…

The new Math Teachers at Play blog carnival is ready for your browsing pleasure:

Welcome to the 37th edition of the Math Teachers at Play blog carnival. I’m delighted to host the carnival here this month at Maths Insider!

For those new to the Math Teachers at Play carnival, this carnival celebrates some of the best maths teaching articles written by teachers, parents and bloggers each month. …

In keeping with tradition, I’ve presented a “37″ puzzle and some interesting arithmetic facts about the number 37 below. …

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The carnival is posted!

36 has long been one of my favorite numbers, but faced with this carnival, it was hard to figure out why. It’s a square number that’s a product of two squares, but that’s not too rare. (Why?) It’s the 6th perfect square and the sum of the first six odds, but that’s not too remarkable. (Why?) It’s the 8th triangular number, but not a Sierpinski step or anything… wait! It’s a square triangular number? How common is that? 1, 36, then…?

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For those of you who read the RSS feed (and thus don’t get to see my changes to old stuff), two of the bloggers featured in MTaP #35 have published follow-up posts:

• Why I hate the definition of trapezoids (again)
• Teaching off Topic (yet again) – addendum

With those two posts added in, I believe Math Teachers at Play #35 now features exactly 35 posts about fun ways to teach math (not counting the links to the other math blog carnivals). Cool!

Welcome to the 34th edition of the Math Teachers at Play Carnival. Since it is new year, we will be talking about cakes, best of 2010, and calendars…

Enjoy the whole carnival at Mathematics and Multimedia!

The Math Teachers at Play blog carnival is open for your browsing pleasure at An “Old Math Dog” Learning New Tricks. Topics include:

• humor
• construction
• baking
• water gun battles
• football
• ABCs
• puzzles, games, and much more… Enjoy!

Math Teachers at Play #31 offers ten posts about learning and teaching math (appropriate for the 10th month of ’10) at Homeschool Bytes.

Mixing play with learning math is so much more effective for my kids. So, here are some great ideas on how to take the “boring” out of learning math and make it an Adventure . . .

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Check out the mathy blog entries in this month’s Math Teachers at Play blog carnival, hosted by Jonathan at jd2718. Topics range from preschool to high school, including songs, games and much more. Fun!

Welcome to the September 17, 2010 edition of math teachers at play. This is MTaP #30. This MTaP may look a little different. There is no theme weaving its way through and unifying the sections. We are not opening with a discussion of the number 30 (no matter how many cool things we could have come up with), and the sections are, um, different. It has occurred to some of us that the experience a student has in mathematics may differ greatly from p … Read More

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