by MathPickle | Jan 30, 2018 |
The brilliant artwork in this puzzle was done for me by Mr. Cuddington. Here is the challenge. You want to print up a card game with one card of value 1, two cards of value 2, three cards of value 3… twelve cards of value 12… Here is a page with 8 cards....
by MathPickle | May 1, 2017 |
McGuire the Gathering is one of my favourite puzzle games. It is among the first that I designed in 2005 – five years before MathPickle came into being. It is based on the card game: Magic the Gathering. Download a pdf of this slide show here. Foul winds are...
by MathPickle | Apr 13, 2017 |
Show your class a lightning strike with the number 88. This is how it looks. Pause for two minutes. Let them try to figure out some of the rules governing its construction. You can think too. What observations do you make? Here is a possible list: When a split occurs...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2017 |
A Spectral Blaster Ring is what you see if you get hit with a spectral blast. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger 😉 If you have not seen the slide show on Spectral Blasters you should see that before you continue. The same four rules apply to Spectral...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2017 |
In this Mini Mathematical Universe your students will try to figure out the four rules that are needed to calibrate their spectral blaster. They collectively make any guess of a sequence of colours and then you will tell them if they violated one of the four rules and...
