Math Teachers at Play #29 via The Number Warrior

After a slight delay, the new Math Teachers at Play carnival is up at The Number Warrior, with a nice variety of blog posts to browse. Enjoy!

Math Teachers at Play #29 The last time I hosted Math Teachers at Play I attempted to start a tradition of including a math puzzle pertinent to the number of the carnival. Alas, it didn't take, but now that I'm hosting again I can mention an old classic: Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 … Read More

via The Number Warrior

Math Teachers at Play #28 via CTK Insights

There’s plenty to enjoy at this month’s Math Teachers at Play blog carnival. Check it out:

This is a Math teachers at play carnival, issue #…which I am going to reveal shortly. See if you can make it from what is known as a single image stereogram. Try focusing your eyes behind the screen.

In this month’s issue: What is the number of this issue? … Sad news … Interesting and relevant news … From the trenches … Math curiosities … Jokes … P.S. … Read more

via CTK Insights

Math Teachers at Play #27 via Math Mom


The carnival is up at Ramblings of a Math Mom, a day late but well worth the wait:

Mathmom herself wrote a wonderful post for the carnival, which I was glad to see. I’ve missed her!

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Here’s a puzzle I found to fritter away time while I was waiting for the carnival:

[Warning: The answers are in the same blog post, so don’t scroll down until you’ve tried the puzzle!]

Math Teachers at Play #26 via Math Hombre

Click over and check out the wonderful selection of math blog posts at Math Hombre:

John included one of Kitten’s recent posts in the carnival:

(I’m not sure where the random coughing came from. Perhaps she meant it as a warning that the post wasn’t about actual policemen?)

Math Teachers at Play #24

[Photo by internets_dairy.]

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. Let’s start the mathematical fun with an arithmetic card game in honor of our 24th edition and a few number puzzles:

Continue reading Math Teachers at Play #24

Math Teachers at Play #23 via Math Recreation

The new blog carnival is posted and full of fun:

Enjoy!

Next month, the carnival is coming back home to Let’s Play Math! — and in fact, I’ve already started collecting articles for it. If you would like to contribute, you can use this handy submission form. If you’d like to host a future edition (July or later), let me know.

What is a Math Carnival?

Over at Walking Randomly, Mike has posted a great explanation with FAQs:

You can send in articles now for either carnival:

Math Teachers at Play #22 via Math Hombre

The new Math Teachers at Play blog carnival is open at math hombre for your browsing pleasure:

The carnival features a wide variety of posts about math and teaching, along with 6 puzzle questions and a warning about the “rare but deadly Blogcarnival Catch 22.” Enjoy!

If you would like to host a future edition of Math Teachers at Play, leave a comment below or send me an email.

Math Teachers at Play #21 via Math Mama Writes

The math carnival is posted and ready for your browsing pleasure:

Puzzlers, riddlers, thinkers, doers, novices, experts, come one , come all! First off, in honor of the number 21, is a puzzle, fresh from the oven.

The Numberland News runs personal ads. 21 was looking for a new friend and put an ad in…

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