by MathPickle | Feb 8, 2016 |
This three-ball juggling is common, but Juggling can use a lot of complex patterns. How should we organize these patterns so we could talk about them? It was not until the 1980s that mathematicians and jugglers started to solve this problem. The result was SITESWAP....
by MathPickle | Dec 12, 2015 |
{0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,9,9,10} In this mini-competition your students try to find a set of non-negative integers for which the mean, median and mode are integral. There are six separate challenges… one for each permutation. The one here is for median < mode...
by MathPickle | Nov 3, 2015 |
Fractal Multiplication (MathPickle, 2015) This is a mathematical mini-universe for your students to practice the scientific method. The mathematical curriculum covered includes any of the following: 1) Permutations and Combinations 2) Polar Coordinates 3)...
by MathPickle | Nov 1, 2015 |
Pillage and Profit (MathPickle, 2015) Get students involved and practicing algebra from grade 3 forward. Here are the game sheets for the different grades. PS. The double up and down arrow that you see on the puzzle sheet below means that you can increase or decrease...
by MathPickle | Oct 12, 2015 |
There is one great minaret at Samarra, but what happened if Caliph al-Mutawakkil decided to build twelve!?! The Caliph loved beautiful geometry, so if he had built twelve minarets, he might have chosen to build them in an array with 90 degree rotational...
