by MathPickle | Jun 7, 2016 |
Picasso’s cuboid puzzle uses volume in an unequal battle between a Greedy and Generous Cuboid. 20 can be written as the sum of the volumes of two cuboids… a Greedy one and a Generous one… All three dimensions of the Greedy Cuboid {3,3,2} are at least as...
by MathPickle | Jun 6, 2016 |
Uncut spaghetti is one of MathPickle’s best puzzles of 2016. It will challenge your top students to discover patterns and your lower students will enjoy the successes of repeatedly carrying out a procedure in pursuit of a common goal. Start with a...
by MathPickle | May 24, 2016 |
The Adventures of Pinocchio were written by Carlo Collodi in 1883. This puzzle was inspired by imagining Pinocchio’s classroom – full of little people who always lied or always told the truth. In one of his classroom the truth teller students and liar...
by MathPickle | Mar 18, 2016 |
I did not even know of Tree Kangaroos – less so their secret ritual of arboreal hopscotch 😉 “Mammals of Australia”, Vol. II Plate 50 by John Gould (1804-1881) When kangaroos skip count up a branch the numbers increase. Let one of them start on the...
by MathPickle | Feb 8, 2016 |
This three-ball juggling is common, but Juggling can use a lot of complex patterns. How should we organize these patterns so we could talk about them? It was not until the 1980s that mathematicians and jugglers started to solve this problem. The result was SITESWAP....
