Comments on: Carnivals of Mathematics

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:03:15 +0000

Be my guest

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:58:35 +0000

Steve,

I’m not sure if you’ve seen this, but we’re having some problem attracting more advanced posts. So I’m going around the blogosphere looking for relatively advanced stuff to ask the author to submit… your group theory post above would be a nice addition, I think.

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:08:53 +0000

Oh, please, I didn’t think your comment was condescending. More like insightful.

It wasn’t my intent to weight carnival 9 to school teacher math, but in the end that’s what I did. I wasn’t sure anyone would notice…

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:58:22 +0000

Thanks for the roundup, Steve. If you ever want to host a carnival, shoot me an email and I’ll add you.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:49:28 +0000

I didn’t mean to sound condescending especially, as in my case, I have taught students of school age for many years. I was just trying to pick up on a theme and bloggings on mathematics education in schools is as important as the more theoretical stuff. In some ways it could be seen as more important in the light of discussions on this blog and elsewhere about dumbing down.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:15:39 +0000

Interesting that you picked up on the school-teacher slant. It was close to deadline, and I thought submissions were too low, so I wrote an appeal to a few dozen bloggers, mostly teachers as that’s who I talk to most, and more responded than I would have anticipated. I’d think as long as it was balanced by other carnival’s being more theoretical or numerical, it shouldn’t be a problem to be occasionally teacher-y.