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...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
The Greedy Pickle Monster Problem (adapted from The Cookie Monster problem by Richard Guy in the Inquisitive Problem Solver, 2002) I’ve made a slight change to the original Cookie Monster problem. Unlike the original cookie monster, the pickle monster is greedy....
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Too Many Mice! (MathPickle, 2012) Your students need to add 15 and 17… How do you teach carrying from the ones column to the tens column? This is the first of a series of games that will help. “Too Many Mice” is a simple game in which students try to get as...
