Playlist: Bookmarks
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!
Plant Adaptation Tournament
Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Math Curiosity: Ulam Spiral
What if we make a huge spiral of numbers and then highlight only the primes? Well, a bunch of weird patterns show up!
Math Curiosity: A Pattern Packed Triangle
Pascal’s pattern-packed triangle is a potent puzzle for pupils to ponder.
Math Curiosity: Goldbach’s Conjecture
Can any even number be written as the sum of two primes? Goldbach thought so, but we haven’t proven it… yet!
Notice, Wonder: A Ship
A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!
Chomp
Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.
Math Curiosity: Waring’s Conjecture
So, can you write every odd (greater than 3) as the sum of three primes?
Math Curiosity: Primes and Squares
Can any perfect square be written as the sum of two primes?
Math Curiosity: Finding Primes
Prime numbers are unpredictable! How can we possibly find them all? An Ancient Greek mathematician found one way!
Math Curiosity: Twin Primes
What do you call two prime numbers who are very close together?