by MathPickle | Jun 21, 2016 |
Richard Smalley was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for the discovery that he could make a very very small soccer ball out of Carbon atoms. In 2005 he suddenly began to shrink. He ended up so small that he could bounce on the little trampolines that make...
by MathPickle | Jun 6, 2016 |
Uncut spaghetti is one of MathPickle’s best puzzles of 2016. It will challenge your top students to discover patterns and your lower students will enjoy the successes of repeatedly carrying out a procedure in pursuit of a common goal. Start with a...
by MathPickle | May 30, 2016 |
Raindrops down windshield is a maze that has students comparing values of numbers. Start with raindrops on any of the top numbers. We will start with 856 in the middle. On each move down the windshield choose the largest number one row beneath and...
by MathPickle | Feb 8, 2016 |
This three-ball juggling is common, but Juggling can use a lot of complex patterns. How should we organize these patterns so we could talk about them? It was not until the 1980s that mathematicians and jugglers started to solve this problem. The result was SITESWAP....
by MathPickle | Jan 25, 2016 |
ConHex (Michail Antonow, 2002) ConHex is a pencil and paper game curricular for students learning about perimeter, but the most important reason to play any game like this is to get students thinking rigorously as they try to beat one another. As with most connection...
