by MathPickle | Sep 12, 2015 |
Arrows (Eggleton & Fraenkel, 1975) Categorize 9 games based on the answer to two questions: 1) Will Emperor Jiaqing win / tie / lose if he goes the first. 2) Will the Pirate, Ching Shih, win / tie / lose if she goes the first. The games are all variants of the...
by MathPickle | Sep 12, 2015 |
Kobon Triangles (Kobon Fujimura, 1981) Math Puzzles do not get more beautiful than this one from Japan. It should be used by either elementary instructors who need to give their students practice holding a ruler and drawing a straight line or by junior high...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Venn diagrams are not taught well anywhere. With little effort, these diagrams can be brought to life with beauty and by going beyond that little 3 circle Venn diagram. At the very least a teacher should end a lesson on the three circle Venn diagram with a question:...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Find the Attribute (MathPickle, 2013) This is a filler puzzle when you have a little chunk of time to fill and want to get your students talking about attributes. The puzzle creator chooses an attribute and publicly declares which items belong to the set and which...
