by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Complete the Quadrilateral (Don Steward, 2013) Try finding the largest and smallest rhombus, rectangle, trapezoids etc. so their vertices include a special point and the other vertices lie on the lattice points of a grid. The first half of the video is quite easy,...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Symmetry Search (MathPickle, 2011) Give your students practice identifying mirror and rotational symmetry. I’m 95% happy with this puzzle… the mild negative issues are: 1) Some students see the 2D shapes as 3D shapes and this confuses their perception of...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Kajitsu (MathPickle, 2012) Kajitsu puzzles are for students learning rotational & mirror symmetry. They are the most beautiful puzzles I have created so I love them a lot 😉 Download instructions and an extensive set of these beautiful puzzles here. Men are liars....
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Sports Tournaments (MathPickle, 2014) Sports tournaments should be celebrated in the math classroom. PS. Despite assurances in this video that I will post the follow-up results… I’ve removed them out of shock! My predictions sadly went down in...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Life expectancy in different countries (MathPickle, 2011) Life and death statistics from around the world. It is a good data set to discuss and calculate “average.” If students do not yet know division, the video shows another way to calculate average. The...
