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...
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...
