by MathPickle | Apr 1, 2024 |
Bumpy Wheel (MathPickle 2022) Bumpy Wheel is a two-player game. Setup: Put an even number of dots in a circle. Copy this pattern so both players have it. Rules: 1) On your opponent’s dots: Secretly place consecutive integers starting at zero. They can...
by MathPickle | Mar 10, 2020 |
Emoji Democracy Democracies can be attacked by altering the boundaries of voting regions. This has been done in many countries from Apartheid’s South Africa to Hong Kong under the Chinese Communist Party. Its English word is “gerrymandering.” In this...
by MathPickle | Jun 5, 2019 |
Packing Pasta (MathPickle, 2019) This problem is good to introduce volume and density calculations to a classroom. Top students and those interested can continue to the greatest packing website in recreational mathematics: Erich’s Packing Center. The pages...
by MathPickle | May 27, 2018 |
Picasso’s Canvas (MathPickle, 2018) This beautiful and addictive puzzle is perfect for students learning multiplication and division. After experimenting with a small canvas in front of the whole class release students in pairs to try to find better solutions....
by MathPickle | May 1, 2017 |
McGuire the Gathering is one of my favourite puzzle games. It is among the first that I designed in 2005 – five years before MathPickle came into being. It is based on the card game: Magic the Gathering. Download a pdf of this slide show here. Foul winds are...
