by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Number Icicles (MathPickle, 2011) Give your students practice in skip counting. Download the puzzle-sheets here. PS. Some of the harder puzzles are purposefully impossible. It is essential that students get exposure to lots of impossible puzzles – without...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Intro to Skip Counting (MathPickle, 2010) Make your math class active by teaching real skipping. In this video we go forward, backward and stand still on the number line. There is no royal road to geometry. Euclid Join the MathPickle community. Success! First Name...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Willie Wiggle Wiggle Worm (MathPickle, 2010) Willie Worm is an enjoyable and challenging visual spatial problem, which encourages persistence in problem solving, as well as providing students with a purposeful reason for practicing counting and writing numbers from 1...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Complete the Quadrilateral (Don Steward, 2013) Try finding the largest and smallest rhombus, rectangle, trapezoids etc. so their vertices include a special point and the other vertices lie on the lattice points of a grid. The first half of the video is quite easy,...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Circus Tent Puzzle The best tents are the ones that have the smallest perimeter. Both of these tents have a perimeter of 7. That's the best you can do for $17. Each triangle is worth $3. Each square is worth $4. Given a tent price find the smallest perimeter. Let's...
