Category Archives: Mathematics and the Arts

Math Walks: A Tour

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

Math Walks is a blog created by secondary math teacher Traci Jackson. It started on March 27th to encourage math discussion on neighborhood walks during the quarantine.  I was so excited to find this blog that brings such a playful … Continue reading →

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Musing Mathematically: A Tour

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

Musing Mathematically is a blog written by Nat Banting, a mathematics teacher, and mathematics education lecturer at the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.  His blog, which began back in 2011, is centered around the ideas … Continue reading →

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Fractal Kitty Blog: A Tour

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

  Fractal Kitty: Making Sense of the Abstract, is a blog created by Sophia Wood and edited by her daughter, where she shares an assortment of fantastic math content. What caught my attention was the great number of math illustrations … Continue reading →

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The Math ∩ Programming Blog

Posted on July 31, 2020 by racheljcrowell

I’m a new reader of Jeremy Kun’s Math ∩ Programming blog. However, it didn’t take much scrolling before I read a post mentioning a tool I’ve wanted to find for quite a while and hadn’t even realized it. In “Contextual … Continue reading →

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An Arbitrarily Close Tour

Posted on July 3, 2020 by racheljcrowell

Annie Perkins, a math teacher for Minneapolis Public Schools, writes the arbitrarily close blog. Here are just a few of the interesting/exciting/compelling components of her blog. #MathArtChallenge posts Perkins has been creating posts for this challenge since March 16 and … Continue reading →

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Rage of the Blackboard: A Tour

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

I’ve always found great beauty in the way illustrations can convey a lot of information in a succinct, elegant, and beautiful way. I am a big fan of art especially when it intersects with math. While on Twitter, I ran … Continue reading →

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Joyful Learning in the Early Years: A Tour

Posted on March 26, 2020 by racheljcrowell

With schools shutting down for weeks or the rest of the semester in response to COVID-19, many guardians are concerned about how to support or even direct their children’s education from home. This seems particularly true when the children are … Continue reading →

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A Tour of Intersections: Poetry with Mathematics

Posted on March 5, 2020 by racheljcrowell

I don’t know about you, but between coverage of the coronavirus outbreak and political discussions looking ahead to this year’s presidential elections, I have been encountering a lot of stress-inducing content lately. Reading poetry is a welcome break from that, … Continue reading →

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ThatsMaths: A Tour

Posted on February 20, 2020 by racheljcrowell

ThatsMaths is a blog by Peter Lynch, an emeritus professor of the University College Dublin’s School of Mathematics and Statistics. Many of the posts on the blog are articles that Lynch has written for the Irish Times. Please join me … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Enchantments: A Tour

Posted on February 7, 2020 by racheljcrowell

Mathematical Enchantments, or “Jim Propp’s math blog” is about “adventures in fantastic realms you can build inside your head.” The blog has been discussed a few times on this blog in recent years. Welcome to my tour of a few … Continue reading →

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