by MathPickle | Jan 5, 2016 |
A little bit of Aggression is one of the few essential games for the elementary school classroom. It could be the only thing done in grade 2 or 3 math for a whole year and my prediction would be that the students would end up in a superior place to most existing...
by MathPickle | Dec 26, 2015 |
Portuguese Man O’ War puzzles are mini-mathematical universes. They are used to teach the scientific method to students learning addition. The next slides are an example of how a Portuguese man o’ war should be dissected in class. Click here to learn...
by MathPickle | Nov 1, 2015 |
Pillage and Profit (MathPickle, 2015) Get students involved and practicing algebra from grade 3 forward. Here are the game sheets for the different grades. PS. The double up and down arrow that you see on the puzzle sheet below means that you can increase or decrease...
by MathPickle | Oct 13, 2015 |
This puzzle has your students excavate the roots of a giant Banyan tree. It’s a good puzzle to give students curricular practice adding numbers up to 50 whilst simultaneously providing your top problem solvers a challenge. These are the type of puzzles we like...
by MathPickle | Oct 6, 2015 |
Round Tower Drill and Kill, is not a typical MathPickle’s puzzle-sheet. It helps with multiplication speed memory. If students have most of the multiplication table already memorized*, they compete in pairs – One student is defensive the other offensive....
