by MathPickle | Oct 13, 2015 |
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...
by MathPickle | Sep 20, 2015 |
Rock Monster (MathPickle, 2011) This game was in MathPickle purgatory until Joli Barker (2013 TCEA Classroom Teacher of the Year) requested that I put it back up. Although I like the underlying idea, I wasn’t sure the current version belonged in...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Sum or Difference – Mutant Fibonacci Bunny (MathPickle, 2012) These sequences are fun to set up mini-competitions in your classroom. After an initial exploration in front of the class, groups can challenge one another to reach a certain number as fast as...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Wreckerball & Recamán’s Sequence (Bernardo Recamán, 1995) What a delicious way to play on the number line! In these sequences you jump about by increasing intervals. The patterns that result are chaotic and beautiful. Nothing must be advanced in a positive...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Addition Boomerang (MathPickle, 2010) Give your students practice working with single digit addition. Answers are usually less than 20, but differentiation is easy to accomplish. Get printable puzzle-sheet here. Addition Boomerang 100 (MathPickle, 2010) Boomerang...
