by MathPickle | Jan 23, 2022 | Teaching Technique Discussion
“Fill the gaps!” is the command of many well-intentioned educators. Math especially succumbs to this twisted pedagogy because math is more obviously hierarchical with lower building blocks being required to understand higher building blocks. What is wrong...
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:...
by MathPickle | Apr 14, 2017 | Pickle Opinion |
Is there a tendency in our education culture to avoid teaching the core of science? Do science centres cheapen science by making it into entertainment – with all the slow discovery and math removed? Do our schools do a disservice to our children by giving them...
by MathPickle | Oct 6, 2016 | Teaching Technique Discussion |
When presented with a tough challenge a majority of our students charge right in. They see a computation and charge! We’ll call this majority the Quixotic Problem Solvers. The worst offenders solve one thing and instead of trying to generalize or to take steps...
