by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Bracket (MathPickle, 2011) In the video I describe how to play Bracket with sticks, but you can also just download this pdf board. Each player would play with two markers. You will need to come up with your own questions. They should be hard enough that an average...
by MathPickle | Sep 14, 2015 |
Destruction of Napoleon’s Grande Armée (Joseph Minard, 1869) Minard’s graph showing the destruction of Napoleon’s Grande Armée in 1812-1813. You can find an English translation of this graph here. How many types of data are presented on the...
by MathPickle | Sep 14, 2015 |
Cracking the ADFGX Cipher – part 1 (MathPickle, 2011) Learn the ADFGX cipher from world war I. In this first step we learn how to crack a simplified version using the frequency of letters. Click here for a downloadable file to help students crack a...
by MathPickle | Sep 14, 2015 |
Start by drawing a point on a cartesian grid. The position of the point has been selected carefully. The student at the back right of the class begins. They know nothing. They may either take a guess at what will happen next – or may ask for the next slide....
by MathPickle | Sep 12, 2015 |
Ruffian Ritual Not everyone is nice. Not everyone even pretends to be nice, but their is still honour and protocol among thieves. Let's say that you're spying on a den of thieves and ruffians. The first thing you notice when they get together is that they all...
