by MathPickle | Jun 7, 2016 |
Picasso’s cuboid puzzle uses volume in an unequal battle between a Greedy and Generous Cuboid. 20 can be written as the sum of the volumes of two cuboids… a Greedy one and a Generous one… All three dimensions of the Greedy Cuboid {3,3,2} are at least as...
by MathPickle | May 24, 2016 |
The Adventures of Pinocchio were written by Carlo Collodi in 1883. This puzzle was inspired by imagining Pinocchio’s classroom – full of little people who always lied or always told the truth. In one of his classroom the truth teller students and liar...
by MathPickle | Jan 25, 2016 |
ConHex (Michail Antonow, 2002) ConHex is a pencil and paper game curricular for students learning about perimeter, but the most important reason to play any game like this is to get students thinking rigorously as they try to beat one another. As with most connection...
by MathPickle | Dec 9, 2015 |
Can you tile this big L shape with identical, but smaller copies of itself? If so, the shape is called a rep-tile (repeating tile). However, that’s not what we are going to be looking at here. We are going to explore “irreptiles” which are shapes...
by MathPickle | Oct 12, 2015 |
There is one great minaret at Samarra, but what happened if Caliph al-Mutawakkil decided to build twelve!?! The Caliph loved beautiful geometry, so if he had built twelve minarets, he might have chosen to build them in an array with 90 degree rotational...
