by MathPickle | Aug 12, 2021 |
Three Color Triangle Puzzles (MathPickle 2021) This logic puzzle is inspired by the brilliant Mathologer video below. The tricks presented above are proved below. Playing with these puzzles is good for upper elementary, but younger kids can get a lot of value from...
by MathPickle | Mar 19, 2019 |
If you have not seen the original jumping frogs puzzle you might want to watch the video below – paying special attention to the lazy toads. This exploration starts out with an exploration of lily pads linked together – but not necessarily in a line. The...
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 | Jan 29, 2018 |
This is a two player game. The objective is to get four consecutive chips in a line. On your turn roll two dice and add them up. On your first turn lets say you rolled a 1 and a 5… Those add to six so you can choose any 6 to place your chip on. Your opponent...
by MathPickle | Apr 16, 2017 |
After repeated defeats in races against Aesop’s tortoises, the hares band together to have intra-species races across rickety bridges. They come up with an algorithm to build a race track which guarantees that no hare will be able to make two equal jumps right...
