Banyan Tree Root Puzzle (Addition)

Banyan Tree Root Puzzle (Addition)

This puzzle has your students excavate the roots of a giant Banyan tree. It’s a good puzzle to give students curricular practice adding numbers up to 50 whilst simultaneously providing your top problem solvers a challenge. These are the type of puzzles we like...
Plastic Fraction Circles

Plastic Fraction Circles

A set of plastic circle fractions got me thinking. How many ways can a circle be constructed if your smallest piece is 1/6? If your smallest piece is 1/6, there are six ways to complete the circle. Here we see the front and back view of one proposed solution. Is it...
Round Tower – (drill and kill multiplication)

Round Tower – (drill and kill multiplication)

Round Tower Drill and Kill, is not a typical MathPickle’s puzzle-sheet. It helps with multiplication speed memory. If students have most of the multiplication table already memorized*, they compete in pairs – One student is defensive the other offensive....
Rock – Low unique number game

Rock – Low unique number game

Rock – Low unique number game (MathPickle, 2015) “Rock” is the best MathPickle filler game for grades K-2. If you need five minutes of energetic math – try it. Each game takes about 45 seconds. This is part of the key to its success. Children...