by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Addition Boomerang (MathPickle, 2010) Give your students practice working with single digit addition. Answers are usually less than 20, but differentiation is easy to accomplish. Get printable puzzle-sheet here. Addition Boomerang 100 (MathPickle, 2010) Boomerang...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Wiki Histories are 10-minute pencil & paper games. They are great for teaching problem-solving, world history, and board game design. They can be played in any grade starting at grade 2. Each comes with a history essay that is written for high school students. If...
by MathPickle | Sep 15, 2015 |
Bubbling Cauldrons (Integer Partitions were first explored by Issai Schur, 1916) After students have found the optimal answer (eight frogs in two bubbling cauldrons) you can challenge students in multiple directions. Let your students decide: 1) David Martin (2020...
by MathPickle | Sep 12, 2015 |
Kobon Triangles (Kobon Fujimura, 1981) Math Puzzles do not get more beautiful than this one from Japan. It should be used by either elementary instructors who need to give their students practice holding a ruler and drawing a straight line or by junior high...
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...
