by MathPickle | Jun 6, 2016 |
Uncut spaghetti is one of MathPickle’s best puzzles of 2016. It will challenge your top students to discover patterns and your lower students will enjoy the successes of repeatedly carrying out a procedure in pursuit of a common goal. Start with a...
by MathPickle | Aug 28, 2016 | Teaching Technique Discussion
Standard curricula have children jump through a progression of hoops. True – they stop every so often to “review” content, but this is usually time wasted for top students and it is only tolerated in order to get struggling students...
by Sheena Cheng | Aug 16, 2016
Favorites 2017 MathPickle Board Game of the Year - and a puzzle for each grade K-12 Board Game: “Santorini” is an easy-to-learn, fast-to-play board game. It is ranked #1 family game on boardgamegeek.com. I play a 2×4 version of Santorini with K-2 students where...
by MathPickle | May 30, 2016 |
Raindrops down windshield is a maze that has students comparing values of numbers. Start with raindrops on any of the top numbers. We will start with 856 in the middle. On each move down the windshield choose the largest number one row beneath and...