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Crackers

February 23rd, 2021

Introduction by Cathy Williams Maybe some of you recall from childhood, discovering a set of 6 little cardboard cards filled with numbers that came as a prize in a Cracker […]

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Jumbled Hopscotch (2-12) [video]

May 14th, 2020

Lately, we’ve seen some lovely hopscotches made by our neighbors in sidewalk chalk for everyone to use, but what would happen if we jumbled the numbers? First, we can ask […]

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Apple Orchard (4-12) [video]

May 7th, 2020

This layout based on how apple trees are planted in orchards leads to some interesting explorations of area, patterns, and growth rates. Younger students can model the situation with beads […]

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Jo’s Pennies and Paperclips

February 2nd, 2018

Jo’s undergraduate students work on the Pennies and Paperclips task from Discovering the Art of Mathematics: Pennies and Paperclips is a two-player game played on a 4 by 4 checkerboard […]