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...
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...
