by MathPickle | Sep 19, 2015 |
Taxi Cab Squares (inspired by the Inscribed square problem of Otto Toeplitz, 1911) Give your students practice with Cartesian coordinates as they explore a new variant of a famous, unsolved problem of Otto Toeplitz (1911). This problem has a very wide spectrum of...
by MathPickle | Sep 18, 2015 |
Scientific Notation Notrivia (MathPickle, 2010) Practice Scientific Notation with in a trivia game. Each question will ask you to place an unknown length in relationship to two other known lengths. Have a mini-competition in class... The game on the left is where you...
by MathPickle | Sep 18, 2015 |
Minotaur Gores Pythagoras (MathPickle, 2011) Give your students practice working with Pythagoras. One of MathPickle’s best classroom puzzles. In the newest version Theseus always starts in the upper left and the minotaur is always lurking in the lower left. If...
by MathPickle | Sep 18, 2015 |
Three Exponential Explorations (MathPickle, Polignac, Armstrong) Give your students practice working with bases and exponents while in pursuit of the answers to bigger questions. In this video you will explore three such… including the infamous Polignac...
by MathPickle | Sep 18, 2015 |
Using Least 1s (Conway & Guy, 1962) Using multiplication and addition try to create the target number using the least number of ones. For example… to get to the number 12, you could do (1+1+1+1)*(1+1+1) or (1+1+1+1+1)*(1+1)+1+1 but the first solution is...
