by MathPickle | May 24, 2018 |
Blotch (MathPickle, 2018) Students can tackle this puzzle when working on either counting or adding. If students are practicing counting and don’t have addition skills they will find it more of a challenge to cover the canvas with blotches. Start with a 5×5...
by MathPickle | Apr 14, 2017 |
Hare has challenged the tortoise to a revenge race. Tortoise accepts, but tells hare that any revenge race must be across the rickety bridge. That should help turtle, because it stops the hare from getting into her jumping rhythm. You can see it is pretty...
by MathPickle | Apr 3, 2017 |
Buy Hula Hoops of four colors for your age 5-8 math class! Spread a bunch of them out on the floor in this hexagonal arrangement. For children aged 6+ give them one of the paper Hula Hoop Mazes found in the pdf below. The hard objective is to randomly choose two of...
by MathPickle | Feb 27, 2017 |
Jumping Frogs (MathPickle, 2017) The last puzzle in the video above was solved in 2025 by Joseph Burke, a student in Megan McKee’s grade 4 class. Spoiler alert! Here it is… Jumping Frogs is a fantastic base to create both casual and complex puzzles. We...
by MathPickle | Jan 11, 2017 |
King Kong rearranges the city skyline. The skyscrapers create interesting patterns even though they are generated by a simple algorithm. Let’s look at an example if he starts with 5:2 skyscrapers. The algorithm: King Kong removes the top floor from every...
