Carnival of Mathematics 224

Roll up, roll up, roll up. Come hither come all to the Carnival of Mathematics. This is the 224^th Edition of the longest running Maths Carnival.

For those of you who are unaware, a “blog carnival” is a periodic post that travels from blog to blog and has a collection of posts on a certain topic. In this case the topic is mathematics.

224 is an interesting number – you can make some simple number sentences out of it for a start 2 + 2 = 4 and 2 x 2 = 4, even 2 ^ 2 = 4, if you’re feeling a little spicy! It is an abundant number, and admirable number and is also the perimeter of a Pythagorean triple! (which one you say? I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader……) For more fun facts about the number 224, try this post here!

It has been a long time since I have had the honour of hosting the carnival, in fact it was the the 126th edition I last hosted (available here). Lots has gone on in the world of mathematics since then, and the most recent carvinval, edition 223, is available here, hosted by the great George Shakan at his Data Science and Math blog.

This month we’ve had some quirky submissions, and none quite as quirky as the first one I recieved, submitted by Katie, that is the “Minimum Wage Clock“, this is not for the faint hearted, as it shows in real time the vast difference in earning between those on minimum wage, and those in high up positions.

Sticking with the quirky theme, next up we have another submission from Katie which looks at some excellent research and data collected by an eight year old girl, who really is a data scientist in the making.

If you, like me, get annoyed at various words and semantics, then this thread on mastadon may have you giggling, or up in arms!

For those of you, like me, who are secondary maths teacher, this post from Jo Morgan at Resourceaholic has some highlights to help you get your classes ready for this summers GCSE exams.

While Dave Gale, at reflective maths, has these fun questions based around the no 2024.

If it’s maths news you are after, then Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett over at The Aperiodical (the custodians of this very carnival) have got you covered with this excellent news round up.

If you’ve after something lighter, the wonderful Ben Orlin has put out a few of his hilarious post this month at Math with Bad Drawings, always worth checking out.

Prof Nira Chamberlain, president of the mathematical association, has Dr Jeffery Quay as a guest on the latest on his excellent VLog series “What’s the point of maths?”

Well that’s it for this months carnival – I hope you enjoyed it! While you’re here, you could check out other carnivals you may have missed at the Carnival’s homepage.