by MathPickle | Jul 28, 2016 |
Armenian rugs cover the floor – sometimes laying atop each other. A whole lot of puzzles arise from trying to find the shape and placement of these rugs. PS. The photo is of the oldest pile rug to be discovered – 2500 years old. It is Armenian, but was...
by MathPickle | Jun 21, 2016 |
Richard Smalley was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for the discovery that he could make a very very small soccer ball out of Carbon atoms. In 2005 he suddenly began to shrink. He ended up so small that he could bounce on the little trampolines that make...
by MathPickle | Jun 15, 2016 |
Go is one of the oldest and most elegant of games. As the great Go educator Nick Sibicky says “If we discover intelligent life somewhere else in the universe – there is a good chance they will play Go.” That’s true. However they are...
by MathPickle | Jan 25, 2016 |
ConHex (Michail Antonow, 2002) ConHex is a pencil and paper game curricular for students learning about perimeter, but the most important reason to play any game like this is to get students thinking rigorously as they try to beat one another. As with most connection...
by MathPickle | Sep 19, 2015 |
Turing Machine (Alan Turing, 1936) This entry is more of historic interest than of practical use in the mathematics classroom. Alan Turing was the genius behind Ultra that helped win World War II for the allies. Our text-books have lately arrived at such...
