by MathPickle | Oct 31, 2025 |
Arrows Everywhere! (MathPickle, 2025) Here are the grids you’ll need to play this puzzle on paper, but if you happen to have a square tiled flooring in your school – watch the video below and use the big arrows that you’ll also find in that pdf....
by MathPickle | Oct 27, 2025 |
Ariadne’s String Game (MathPickle, 2025) For elementary students… you’re going to need to learn how to use a ruler. For junior high students… Pythagoras is about to become your best friend! Download the 5×5 and 7×7 game here. I...
by MathPickle | Mar 24, 2023 |
Glue (MathPickle 2021) This geometric square-gluing puzzle is one of my best from 2021. The rules are simple (but probably best seen on the video rather than read): 1) Start with two 1×1 squares labelled “1.” 2) Glue a new square labelled with one...
by MathPickle | Aug 30, 2020
Rooting for NASA (MathPickle, 2020) ReStudents can use Pythagoras to find all possible lengths of line segments on a grid. But what can you do with these line segments… Here are some ideas. They’re really just universes to explore. They look beautiful and...
by MathPickle | Sep 19, 2015 |
Chomp! (Frederik Schuh, 1952) Here is the game of chomp and a very preliminary sketch of a game to do with linear inequalities. The latter would be a fun class project to perfect – it is NOT good enough to play right now. Let me know of your ideas how to...
