Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 51 Issue 2, June 2014
30 – 32
Recreational Mathematics: An Avenue to Engaging in Mathematical Development
John Grant McLoughlin
This article features four examples of mathematical challenges or games that have been effectively drawn into my own teaching. The idea of playing games for fun is healthy, though it is the intentionality of drawing particular forms of challenges or games into play that makes the teaching and learning much more meaningful. That is, the examples here are integrated into situations that are designed to develop number sense, as with the first two examples, or bring forth aspects of mathematical structure and/or proof, as with the latter pair.
