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...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Bracket (MathPickle, 2011) In the video I describe how to play Bracket with sticks, but you can also just download this pdf board. Each player would play with two markers. You will need to come up with your own questions. They should be hard enough that an average...
