by MathPickle | Jul 11, 2021 | Teaching Technique Discussion
Sofya Kovalevskaya and Marian Small would have had good conversations had they been contemporaries. Sofya Kovalevskaya was a mathematician in an age where mathematics was a man’s domain. Marian Small is Canada’s most prolific math educator. Here is a quote...
by MathPickle | Jul 10, 2021 | Teaching Technique Discussion
June 24, 2021 Incubator Daniel and Mason presented on Smileys. That’s a puzzle that has you sparsely filling a grid with smiley faces. Then you start the app running. At each time-step a grumpy face turns into a smiley face if it touches two or more smiley...
by MathPickle | Jul 10, 2021 | Teaching Technique Discussion
July 8, 2021 Incubator Asmita Sodhi presented 5×5 Pentomino Sudoku puzzles. These are problems that her father, Amar worked on so they have a special place. You can read more about Amar and these puzzles on pages 10-12 of the 2018 CMS Notes:...
