by MathPickle | Feb 4, 2026 |
Minimal trips around the Collatz Galaxy (MathPickle, 2025) What’s going on in this loop? We are going to present it to students as a mystery to be discovered. The solution above is a failure. Whenever you are telling a classroom of students that they failed, you...
by MathPickle | Sep 13, 2025 |
Zebra (Dalhousie University Students, 2025) (Inspired by the game Omega by Néstor Romeral Andrés) The 7×7 board in the video is too big for grade four. Start with a smaller board. Here are a whole bunch to choose from: Pencil & Paper version (2 colours of...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2024 |
Stand by me (MathPickle, 2023) Inductive problem-solving is undervalued. In MathPickle, we give students practice using inductive problem-solving by dropping them in the middle of an alien universe. Unlike our own universe, which has complex laws, these universes are...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2024 |
Robot Wrestling (MathPickle, 2023) Wrestling Robots I (above) is best as a platform to explore new puzzle or game ideas. Brainstorm ideas with your students. Here are some suggestions: – Instead of choosing numbers, everyone rolls five dice. – Students can...
by MathPickle | Apr 2, 2024 |
Multiplicative Bingo (MathPickle, 2012) This is a great game to teach factoring and probability. Students should already be comfortable with the multiplication of two numbers 1-6. Teaching is an experimental science. Don’t expect to be a great teacher your first...
