by MathPickle | Aug 12, 2021 |
Three Color Triangle Puzzles (MathPickle 2021) This logic puzzle is inspired by the brilliant Mathologer video below. The tricks presented above are proved below. Playing with these puzzles is good for upper elementary, but younger kids can get a lot of value from...
by MathPickle | Aug 30, 2020
Rooting for NASA (MathPickle, 2020) ReStudents can use Pythagoras to find all possible lengths of line segments on a grid. But what can you do with these line segments… Here are some ideas. They’re really just universes to explore. They look beautiful and...
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 | Jul 13, 2019 |
Solving murder mysteries have police making connections between underworld characters. Strings are pinned up between existing suspects. New subjects are pinned up. It all looks like a big mess. But never fear! We are here to bring order to this chaos! Hopefully, our...
by MathPickle | Jan 16, 2019 |
A house of mirrors can be a dangerous place to live. Bump a wall and the whole house can fall around you – sharp shards everywhere. That’s why there are rules for anyone planning on building a house of mirrors. Rule 1: EQUAL NUMBERS OF EACH COLOR. This...
