Playlist: Bookmarks
Tournament of Not-So-Famous Inventors
Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?
Factors and Codes (Episode 1)
Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.
Crossing Every Bridge Exactly Once (aka Eulerian Paths)
How can you cross each bridge in this city exactly once?
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!?
Ultimate (or Inception) Tic Tac Toe
What if each square on a Tic-Tac-Toe board had another Tic-Tac-Toe board inside of it?
Cram
Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!
Fractions: Decompose and Recompose
What if we took a fraction apart, then took those pieces apart, then recombined them, and then recombined those, arriving back to the original fraction?
Game: Wild Tic Tac Toe
Imagine Tic-Tac-Toe, but both players can both play as both X and O throughout the whole game!
Game: Number Scrabble
What if we played Tic-Tac-Toe with numbers and instead of three-in-a-row, we add up to 15? Well… then we’d have Number Scrabble!
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Jotto
Who can guess the codeword first?
Evens and Odds – Addition and Subtraction
When we’re adding and subtracting, do evens make odds into evens? Do odds make evens odd? Which one has… more power!?
What If There Were No Hundreds Place?
Imagine a world with no hundreds place. We’d have to call it ten tens instead. But then, what would we call the thousands place? How would we read 9999? What if we added one more?
SCAMPER: Scaffolding Creativity
Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.
What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?
Which are trapezoids and which are not?
Undoing Multiplication With Division
Multiplication and division, natural foes, are constantly seeking to undo each other. Students will attempt to reverse the effects of multiplication by dividing once, twice, or even thrice!
Student Introductions With Depth and Frames
Want to introduce the tools of Depth and Complexity and learn more about your students and introduce the Frame graphic organizer? Have I got the activity for you!
Paradox: Crocodile Dilemma
A crocodile makes a deal. But the deal creates a paradox. Can your students untangle a 2,000-year-old logic puzzle?
Investigating Cost of Living
Would you save money if you lived in Las Vegas and commuted every day to San Francisco?
How to Play Go
Ready to learn a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game? Let’s… Go!
Greekymon
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.