by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Unifix cubes. (MathPickle, 2011) Use Unifix to play with patterns. One new unifix mime vignette I did with kindergarten children in 2013 was to enter a new classroom with unifix cubes sorted out in color piles. I lay down in the middle of the cubes. The teacher hit a...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Tribute to Eric Carl (MathPickle, 2010) Kindergarten students experience mathematical pattern and structure in many of their books. Some enjoy the predictive qualities of pattern. They like the rhythm of words and benefit from the repetition of meaningful phases....
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Find the Attribute (MathPickle, 2013) This is a filler puzzle when you have a little chunk of time to fill and want to get your students talking about attributes. The puzzle creator chooses an attribute and publicly declares which items belong to the set and which...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
My Pet Zebra (MathPickle, 2010) Introduce your elementary students to patterns, symmetry, order and chaos. Afterwards, you might look at the art below. If you were to arrange this art on a line from Chaotic (left) to Ordered (right) – where would each fall?...
by MathPickle | Sep 11, 2015 |
Name Connector (MathPickle, 2014) This icebreaker is great for any group to get to know one-another, but it is best suited to an elementary classroom learning about capital and small letters. The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it...
