by MathPickle | Apr 4, 2024 |
Genetic Labyrinth (MathPickle, 2021) Genetic labyrinth is best used as an activity when learning what “7 choose 3” means in junior high or high school. Students should try to construct a puzzle after they solve one. What is the maximum number of steps...
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...
by MathPickle | Apr 1, 2024 |
Line Dance Dice (MathPickle 2021) The Polypad website has changed so you’ll need to make your own line of dice. Try using 7 dice with 7 rerolls. Players reroll or pass simultaneously. A player who has passed can choose not to pass on a later turn. Each person...
by MathPickle | Apr 1, 2024 |
Smileys (Daniel Hodgins & Mason Philips, 2021) The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival has an app that offers a playful start: https://jrmf.org/puzzle/smileys/ I like this activity as an algebraic exercise. I have not proven the solutions presented in the video...
by MathPickle | Aug 12, 2021 |
Chalk Scratch (MathPickle, 2021) This logic puzzle is inspired by the Japanese puzzles like Sudoku and the colouring craze… Chalk Scratch puzzles require you to have eight colours to write with. There are two printable pages of chalk scratch puzzles here. To...
