by MathPickle | Dec 26, 2015 |
Portuguese Man O’ War puzzles are mini-mathematical universes. They are used to teach the scientific method to students learning addition. The next slides are an example of how a Portuguese man o’ war should be dissected in class. Click here to learn...
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 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...
by MathPickle | Sep 29, 2015 |
Embryo Morphogenesis is a mathematical mini-universe. It is governed by laws which your students must figure out. Mini-mathematical universes like this are possibly a great way to learn the scientific method. It still needs work. If you’re embarking on this...
