Diversity City (division, average, geometry)

Diversity City (division, average, geometry)

Diversity City (MathPickle, 2022) In the 1960s Singapore had racial riots and between ethnic Malays and Chinese. The authoritarian government of Lee Kuan Yew solved the problem by mandating social mixing. For example, apartment buildings had to have both Malay and...
Animal Digits (addition, algebra)

Animal Digits (addition, algebra)

Animal Digits / Digit Sums (Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, 2020) The number in each circle is the sum of the digits in all connected circles. Play around with your class – making simple patterns of connected circles and then trying to put numbers in them...
Rainbow Sudoku (logic puzzle)

Rainbow Sudoku (logic puzzle)

Rainbow Sudoku (MathPickle 2021 – Inspired by Amar Sodhi) In regular sudoku and pentomino sudoku numbers are given as clues. Each region needs exactly one copy of each number. That’s true whether the regions are 3×3 squares or pentominoes. In Rainbow...