by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2024 |
Broken Magic (MathPickle, 2023) This is curricular primarily for students learning addition, however there are some nice proofs that are good for older students to contemplate. Proofs have been removed from many curricula. That’s sad. In real life we are seldom...
by MathPickle | Apr 4, 2024 |
Taxi Cab Triangles (MathPickle, 2023) I love the look on students’ faces when I call these things triangles. “These are not triangles”, they insist. This is precisely the type of discussion on definitions that is so useful. We might end up calling...
by MathPickle | Apr 4, 2024 |
Color Vortex (MathPickle, 2022) A beautiful Mini Mathematical Universe for your students to discover. What are the rules governing this universe? What questions do you have? If you can answer the question I have in the video I’ll be so so happy! It is...
by MathPickle | Apr 3, 2024 |
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...
by MathPickle | Apr 2, 2024 |
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...
