by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
King of Tokyo is a most engaging, beautiful game – with great monsters and fun cartoon-style humour mid-1900s – style. The game itself is elegantly designed with reasonably simple rules. It contains too much luck for some people. On the right...
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
In Kindergarten and Grade 1 I use Utopia to get students thinking about patterns. The first pattern I want to emphasize is that exactly one on the four utopian buildings is in each row and column. Some students even in these younger grades are capable of solving the...
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
This is a maze puzzle. It is not my favourite, but some students listed it as their favourite and that is more important than my opinion. I like these physical puzzles for use in the classroom where collaboration in pairs is to be encouraged. Compared to excellent...
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
Zome is a fragile, but flexible manipulative. I now use Space Chips more than Zome in elementary school, but Zome has got a seriousness that Space Chips cannot match....
by MathPickle | Aug 19, 2015 |
This robust manipulative is excellent to give students a quick blast of 3D geometry. The other manipulative that I use in classrooms is Zome. The advantages of Zome are that it is more flexible. It is a tool that can be used by serious mathematicians. The advantages...
