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Crackers
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]
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]
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
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 […]