Playful Math Education Carnival 106 with Math Art

Do you enjoy math? I hope so! If not, browsing this post just may change your mind.

Welcome to the 106th edition of the Math Teachers At Play math education blog carnival — a smorgasbord of links to bloggers all around the internet who have great ideas for learning, teaching, and playing around with math from preschool to pre-college. Let the mathematical fun begin!

By tradition, we start the carnival with a puzzle in honor of our 106th edition. But if you would like to jump straight to our featured blog posts, click here to see the Table of Contents.

Try This Puzzle

If you slice a pizza with a lightsaber, you’ll make straight cuts all the way across. Slice it once, and you get two pieces.

If you slice it five times, you’ll get a maximum of sixteen pieces. (And if you’re lucky you might get a star!)

  • How many times would you have to slice the pizza to get 106 pieces?

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Playful Math Education Carnival 105 at Mrs. E Teaches Math

mtap-105Check out the new carnival of playful math for all ages at Mrs. E Teaches Math. Each month’s carnival brings you a great new collection of puzzles, math conversations, crafts, teaching tips, and all sorts of mathy fun.

This month’s post features algebra tips, geometry proofs, Fibonacci rabbit trails, math art, and much more.

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Do You Want More Ways to Play with Math?

Past carnivals are still full of mathy treasure. See them all on Pinterest:

Playful Math Education Carnival 104 via Travels in a Mathematical World

mtap104Check out the new carnival of playful math for all ages at Travels in a Mathematical World blog. Each month’s carnival brings you a great new collection of puzzles, math conversations, crafts, teaching tips, and all sorts of mathy fun.

This month’s post features measurement games, algebra activities, paper folding, math podcasts, the secret to avoiding commitment, a variety of number puzzles, and much more.

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Hey, Blogger, Can You Spare a Time?

Do you write an education or family blog? Classroom teacher, math coach, homeschooler, parent, college professor, unschooler — anyone interested in helping kids play around with math? Please consider volunteering to host the MTaP blog carnival for one month.

We still need volunteer hosts for most of 2017.

You choose the month that fits your schedule and decide how much effort you want to put in. Writing the carnival can take a couple of hours for a simple post — or you can spend several days searching out and polishing playful math gems to share.

If you want more information, read the MTaP Math Education Blog Carnival home page. Then let me know which month you want.

How to Build Your Math Blog’s Audience

New Year, New Blog!

The first way to make your math blog grow is to write posts. Here’s an #MTBoS blog challenge that seems doable: Only one post a week, so maybe even I can keep up.

With the start of a new year, there is no better time to start a new blog! For those of you who have blogs, it is also the perfect time to get inspired to write again! Please join us to participate in this years blogging initiative…

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Join the Math Education Blog Carnival

Once you’ve got your post blogged, please share it with us!

The Math Teachers at Play (MTaP) blog carnival is a monthly collection of tips, tidbits, games, and activities for students and teachers of preschool through pre-college mathematics. We welcome entries from parents, students, teachers, homeschoolers, and just plain folks…

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Playful Math Carnival 103 at Math Misery? Blog

Check out the new carnival of playful math for all ages at Math Misery? blog. You’re sure to enjoy this month’s collection of mathy fun.

The carnival features prime numbers, self-referential logic, calculus puns, word problems, Pythagorean triples, arithmetic games, geometric coloring designs, and more.

Click here to go read the carnival blog!

Do You Want More Ways to Play with Math?

Past carnivals are still full of mathy treasure. See them all on Pinterest:

Math Teachers at Play 102 at Fraction Fanatic

Check out the new carnival of playful math for all ages at Fraction Fanatic blog. Each month’s carnival brings you a great new collection of puzzles, math conversations, crafts, teaching tips, and all sorts of mathy fun.

This month’s post features algebra games, calculus tips, paper folding, pattern blocks, arithmetic puzzles, triangle doodling, and much more.

Click Here to Go Read the Carnival Blog!

Hey, Blogger, Can You Spare a Time?

Do you write an education or family blog? Classroom teacher, math coach, homeschooler, parent, college professor, unschooler — anyone interested in helping kids play around with math? Please consider volunteering to host the MTaP blog carnival for one month.

We need volunteer hosts for most of 2017.

You choose the month that fits your schedule and decide how much effort you want to put in. Writing the carnival can take a couple of hours for a simple post — or you can spend several days searching out and polishing playful math gems to share.

If you want more information, read the MTaP Math Education Blog Carnival home page. Then let me know which month you want.

Playful Math Carnival 101 at Arithmophobia No More

Check out the new carnival of playful math for all ages at Arithmophobia No More blog. You’re sure to enjoy this great collection of puzzles, math conversations, crafts, teaching tips, and all sorts of mathy fun.

The carnival features prime numbers, multiplication, arithmetic puzzles, magic, word problems, picture puzzles, games, mathematical conversations, and much more.

Click here to go read the carnival blog!

Do You Want More Ways to Play with Math?

Past carnivals are still full of mathy treasure. See them all on Pinterest:

Playful Math Carnival 100 via Three J’s Learning

Check out the new carnival of playful math for all ages at Three J’s Learning blog. You’re sure to enjoy this great collection of puzzles, math conversations, crafts, teaching tips, and all sorts of mathy fun.

Wow, the 100th Math Teachers at Play! Such an honor to put together this milestone edition.

I asked the 3J’s for observations and facts about 100:

  • It is written with a 1 and two 0s
  • Square number (10 x 10)
  • It is a sum of two squares 64 + 36


Click here to go read the carnival blog!

It’s so cool to see carnival number 100. Thank you to ALL the hosts and to everyone who has participated over the years!

Do You Want More Ways to Play with Math?

Past carnivals are still full of mathy treasure. See them all on Pinterest:

Playful Math Carnival 99 via Eat Play Math Blog

mtap99Check out the new playful math education carnival at eat play math blog. Math art, tessellations, review games, problem-solving challenges, and all sorts of mathy fun. Not to mention, Raspberry Tiramisu!

Welcome to the Math Teachers at Play #99 Blog Carnival, a monthly smorgasbord of links to bloggers all around the internet who have great ideas for learning, teaching, and playing around with math…
Click here to go read the carnival blog!

Playful Math Carnival 98 via Math Misery? Blog

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Check out the new playful math education carnival at Math Misery? blog. Multiplication, fractions, humor, problem-solving challenges, and all sorts of mathy fun:

So this is Math Teacher’s at Play … the 98th edition! You know what’s really interesting about 98? It’s 47×2. No, that’s clearly false. 49×2=98. That’s much better. Ok, so here’s a question, are there more facts about 98 than there are non-facts (aka lies) about 98 or the other way around or are they equal in cardinality?
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Make sure to give a the articles linked here a visit!

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CREDITS: Feature photo by m01229 via Flickr (CC BY 2.0, text added).