by MathPickle | Sep 14, 2015 |
Dot to Dot Middle Path Puzzles ™ Like Gandalf in the caves of Moria, these puzzles give you three choices at each dot… choose wisely or forever be lost. As you move from dot to dot you will be revealing a secret picture. Each puzzle starts with a lot of lines,...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Unifix cubes. (MathPickle, 2011) Use Unifix to play with patterns. One new unifix mime vignette I did with kindergarten children in 2013 was to enter a new classroom with unifix cubes sorted out in color piles. I lay down in the middle of the cubes. The teacher hit a...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Find the Attribute (MathPickle, 2013) This is a filler puzzle when you have a little chunk of time to fill and want to get your students talking about attributes. The puzzle creator chooses an attribute and publicly declares which items belong to the set and which...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Beetle Sort! (MathPickle, 2011) Kindergarten students argue about which beetles belong to the collectible family. The photographs of these beetles are from Dr. Udo Schmidt, a retired beetle collector in Germany. Thanks Udo! Mathematics is a game played according to...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
My Pet Zebra (MathPickle, 2010) Introduce your elementary students to patterns, symmetry, order and chaos. Afterwards, you might look at the art below. If you were to arrange this art on a line from Chaotic (left) to Ordered (right) – where would each fall?...
