by MathPickle | Feb 4, 2026 |
Minimal trips around the Collatz Galaxy (MathPickle, 2025) What’s going on in this loop? We are going to present it to students as a mystery to be discovered. The solution above is a failure. Whenever you are telling a classroom of students that they failed, you...
by MathPickle | Dec 31, 2025 |
Frobenius’ Beast Bait (MathPickle, 2025) To introduce Beast Bait, get students to choose a target creature number between 5 and 25. Let’s say the target number is 9. It is then a classroom competition to find a set of integers that can be added together in...
by MathPickle | Dec 31, 2025 |
IQ Fit (Recommended by Geneviève Boulet) IQ Fit is a commercial product that Geneviève Boulet is recommending without bias. She did not receive a free copy of the product, nor does she have any connection to the company. The same goes for me. Teaching is an...
by MathPickle | Dec 30, 2025 |
Vertex Recipe (Jeremiah Hockaday, 2025) Which vertex recipes work and which fail? Look for patterns. The conversation continues below about why graph theory should be considered when designing curriculum. Do these fail? {1,2,3} {1,2,3,4} {1,2,3,4,5}...
by MathPickle | Dec 30, 2025 |
Can you figure out the rules for Roll Reversal by just looking at this sample? We’ll explain the rules on the next few pages, but sometimes it’s fun to get your students to flex their inductive problem-solving muscles! We are going to use Cuisenaire rods....
