by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Which came first: Chicken or Egg (Ancient Puzzle) Choose a number. Find all of its proper divisors. Add them up to find a new number. Repeat. What happens? That’s what we are going to explore in this quirky visit with Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Many teachers...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Mimizu means earthworm in Japanese. Your goal is to digest leaves and other stuff that is in your compost bin. Number hints are given as well as black barriers which cannot be crossed. After stepping through these slides click here to download printable...
by MathPickle | Sep 16, 2015 |
Locker Room Prank (Unknown Origin) This is not an original puzzle, but it is one of my first experiences of a quality problem and therefore one that inspired my own designs. Here is the downloadable pdf. Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to....
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...
