by MathPickle | Jul 1, 2019 |
Number One! This challenge is for everyone out there who loves their team to be #1. It’s a great number! The number one is created using different positive integers in a fraction. The first time this is possible is when the maximum integer is six. Yippee! We...
by MathPickle | Jun 5, 2019 |
Speed Guess Fraction (MathPickle, 2019) This game works because the top students do not have time to figure out the right answer so everyone has a chance to win. Keep the selection phase ridiculously short at 20 seconds. The game is a great way to increase student...
by MathPickle | Jun 5, 2019 |
Packing Pasta (MathPickle, 2019) This problem is good to introduce volume and density calculations to a classroom. Top students and those interested can continue to the greatest packing website in recreational mathematics: Erich’s Packing Center. The pages...
by MathPickle | Mar 20, 2019 |
If you have not seen the original jumping frogs puzzle you should watch the video below – paying special attention to the lazy toads. This exploration starts out with an exploration of lily pads linked together to form stars. These graphs are rotationally...
by MathPickle | Mar 19, 2019 |
If you have not seen the original jumping frogs puzzle you might want to watch the video below – paying special attention to the lazy toads. This exploration starts out with an exploration of lily pads linked together – but not necessarily in a line. The...
