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 | Feb 6, 2017 |
The crow took pebbles and dropped them into an urn so that the water level rose until the crow could drink. What a smart crow! That’s as much as Aesop wrote, but afterwards he witnessed a peculiar algorithm that the crow devised… The crow started with a...
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...
by MathPickle | Nov 22, 2016 |
“Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, and its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.” J.R.R. Tolkien...
