by MathPickle | Oct 27, 2025 |
Ariadne’s String Game (MathPickle, 2025) Thank you to Jia Ming for creating this wonderful online version! If you are playing on paper, elementary students are going to learn how to use a ruler and junior high students are about to make Pythagoras their best...
by MathPickle | Sep 13, 2025 |
Zebra (Dalhousie University Students, 2025) (Inspired by the game Omega by Néstor Romeral Andrés) The 7×7 board in the video is too big for grade four. Start with a smaller board. Here are a whole bunch to choose from: Pencil & Paper version (2 colours of...
by MathPickle | Apr 9, 2024 |
Rotten Apples (Rainer Bedrich, 2022) Gather fallen apples. The gathered apples must form a loop where each adjacent pair has one apple is the multiple of another. The apples which are not gathered go rotten, so try to gather the most possible. Even if a student sets...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2024 |
Stand by me (MathPickle, 2023) Inductive problem-solving is undervalued. In MathPickle, we give students practice using inductive problem-solving by dropping them in the middle of an alien universe. Unlike our own universe, which has complex laws, these universes are...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2024 |
Piet Mondrian Drops His Pins Algorithm (MathPickle, 2023) “Beauty” and “Mathematics” are words that belong together. This is always true, but it is especially true in the elementary school classroom. This algorithm belongs in art class as much...
