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 12, 2015 |
A set of plastic circle fractions got me thinking. How many ways can a circle be constructed if your smallest piece is 1/6? If your smallest piece is 1/6, there are six ways to complete the circle. Here we see the front and back view of one proposed solution. Is it...
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....
by MathPickle | Sep 19, 2015 |
Zome Zome is a manipulative that is excellent for the upper grades – however it takes time to put away and is fragile. Nevertheless, there is no manipulative so versatile on the market, so it should be considered. I am now equally in favour (especially for...
by MathPickle | Sep 19, 2015 |
64 = 65 Mathemagical Proof (Martin Gardner) Get your older students to break apart a convincing mathemagical trick by linking it to the Fibonacci sequence and calculating the slopes of some line segments. Younger students derive a lot of pleasure by figuring out that...
