by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Wormhole! (MathPickle, 2011 – Based on work by Harold Coxeter and John Horton Conway) Send your students on a dangerous trip which coincidently happens to be a fantastic introduction/practice for division. If they make a mistake they’ll crash in a heap of...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
1-100 Composite Connector Challenge This is a challenge for a class that has nothing to do except rejoice in connecting numbers that share common prime factors. The highest score that I've managed is 195, but I don't use computers so this can almost certainly be...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Gozen - The 2-Player Pure Strategy Game (old rules. for new rules see pdf below) Gozen are female Samurai warriors. In this game your goal is to outlast your opponent by strategic horsemanship and archery. After you view this slide show download game-boards here. The...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Killer Bunny Sequence (John Horton Conway) This is a sequence developed by the great mathematician John Horton Conway. After describing the sequence starting with 1,1 student pairs should start with their own two numbers from 1-10 and see what happens to their...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Which came first: Chicken or Egg (Ancient Puzzle) Choose a number. Find all of its proper divisors. Add them up to find a new number. Repeat. What happens? That’s what we are going to explore in this quirky visit with Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Many teachers...
