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 |
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....
