by MathPickle | Jan 16, 2019 |
A house of mirrors can be a dangerous place to live. Bump a wall and the whole house can fall around you – sharp shards everywhere. That’s why there are rules for anyone planning on building a house of mirrors. Rule 1: EQUAL NUMBERS OF EACH COLOR. This...
by MathPickle | May 27, 2018 |
Picasso’s Canvas (MathPickle, 2018) This beautiful and addictive puzzle is perfect for students learning multiplication and division. After experimenting with a small canvas in front of the whole class release students in pairs to try to find better solutions....
by MathPickle | May 1, 2017 |
McGuire the Gathering is one of my favourite puzzle games. It is among the first that I designed in 2005 – five years before MathPickle came into being. It is based on the card game: Magic the Gathering. Download a pdf of this slide show here. Foul winds are...
by MathPickle | Apr 4, 2017 |
This puzzle should be explored after Square Sardine Packing. Choose some shapes – order them from first at the top (green rectangle) to the last at the bottom (purple rectangle). Now use the same algorithm that you used in Square Sardine Packing to pack the...
by MathPickle | Apr 4, 2017 |
The big square is squeeze-packed according to a strict set of rules called an algorithm. Let’s call this algorithm Square Sardine Packing. Can you figure out how it works in this big 9×9 square? Here is Square Sardine Packing on a 12×12 square. Try to...
