by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Symbiotic Sets (MathPickle, 2014) Symbiotic sets are an excuse to practice problem solving and division. I love these little sets and hope you’ll surpass me by finding more. Please email me your discoveries… In my school, the brightest boys did math and...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Wormhole! (MathPickle, 2011 – Based on work by Harold Coxeter and John Horton Conway) Send your students on a dangerous trip which coincidently happens to be a fantastic introduction/practice for division. If they make a mistake they’ll crash in a heap of...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
1-100 Composite Connector Challenge This is a challenge for a class that has nothing to do except rejoice in connecting numbers that share common prime factors. The highest score that I've managed is 195, but I don't use computers so this can almost certainly be...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Gozen (MathPickle, 2025) Here is the pdf of Gozen. It is a game that has benefited from years of classroom experience. It is much simpler than the original thanks to Harini Fredrickson’s feedback in 2024. It is the best game I’ve designed for the...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Killer Bunny Sequence (John Horton Conway) This is a sequence developed by the great mathematician John Horton Conway. After describing the sequence starting with 1,1 student pairs should start with their own two numbers from 1-10 and see what happens to their...
