by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Klingon Attack The Earth is being attacked by Klingons. It is your job to shoot the enemy spaceships out of the sky using our single ion cannon. Download a pdf of puzzle-sheets here. Much thanks to Ex Astris Scientia for their permission to reprint their...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Prime Time (Based on Rivest, Shamir, Adleman, 1977) Prime Time is one of the must-play games in your classroom whenever you start tackling prime and composite numbers. References to the $1,000,000 prize are a long way away, but I hope one day to be able to tell you...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
GCF Bingo (MathPickle, 2012) GCF Bingo is a game where students can both strategize and gain practice calculating the greatest common factor of a set of numbers. Download the pdf for the game here. God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Integral fission puzzles are better than prime factorization trees for student engagement. Click Here Integral fission is how a number explodes into its prime factors. Click Here Integral fission is how a number explodes into its prime factors. Click Here Start with...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Egyptian Fractions (Graham, 1964) The first “greedy algorithm” introduced in this video is a good way to give your students practice finding common denominators, but be very careful which you choose. As the video shows, these can get nasty!!! If you are...
