by MathPickle | Mar 19, 2019 |
If you have not seen the original jumping frogs puzzle you might want to watch the video below – paying special attention to the lazy toads. This exploration starts out with an exploration of lily pads linked together – but not necessarily in a line. The...
by MathPickle | Feb 11, 2019 |
Twisted Homes are haunted. Ghosts and ghouls drift in slow-moving vortices and walking around the drafty rooms can be disorienting. Vampires have four rules to build a twisted home. Rule 1: Each room must be the same size. This home fails because the green room is...
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...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2017 |
A Spectral Blaster Ring is what you see if you get hit with a spectral blast. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger 😉 If you have not seen the slide show on Spectral Blasters you should see that before you continue. The same four rules apply to Spectral...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2017 |
In this Mini Mathematical Universe your students will try to figure out the four rules that are needed to calibrate their spectral blaster. They collectively make any guess of a sequence of colours and then you will tell them if they violated one of the four rules and...