by MathPickle | Dec 12, 2015 |
{0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,9,9,10} In this mini-competition your students try to find a set of non-negative integers for which the mean, median and mode are integral. There are six separate challenges… one for each permutation. The one here is for median < mode...
by MathPickle | Dec 9, 2015 |
Can you tile this big L shape with identical, but smaller copies of itself? If so, the shape is called a rep-tile (repeating tile). However, that’s not what we are going to be looking at here. We are going to explore “irreptiles” which are shapes...
by MathPickle | Dec 9, 2015 |
Cardboard Snowflakes are created by putting a non-negative integer in each circle. There can be no duplicates. Circles are the average of all smaller circles touching them. Here we have failed. Can you find out why? Part of the snowflake looks good. 7 is the...
by MathPickle | Nov 24, 2015 |
Connect 4 is a good game for the classroom because it is fast, cheap, strategically deep, and if you lose some of the chips the game is still playable (most games are over long before all the pieces are used). However, equally important is that the same equipment can...
by MathPickle | Nov 24, 2015 |
Hey, That’s my fish! (2-4 players; 20 minutes; ages 6+) Here is a deeply strategic game well disguised by cute penguins and floppy fish. Each turn you glide along the ice – collecting fish by removing the hexagonal tile that you started from. Pieces...
