What Can We Learn From Martin Gardner?
Saturday October 31, 2009
The year was 1956, Martin Gardner who had never taken a math course since high school left his job with Humpty Dumpty and began writing recreational math for Scientific American. Mr. Gardner just turned 95 and has now published 70 books! He has probably turned more people on to the joy of math than anyone else! Why? Because he makes math fun! "He has turned thousands of children into mathematicians, and thousands of mathematicians into children."
Ronald Graham, University of California.
Many teachers use Gardner's puzzles as part of the problem solving in their math program. Making math fun should be the goal for all math teachers. Learn more about Gardner in the NYT article.
See also, some fun recreational math activities.
Comments
Makinig math fun can be done with chess too and this is something that will get lots of attention from kids.
Math and chess makes math fun.