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Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)

Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!

Parabolic Curve Art

Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.

Animal Adaptation Tournament

Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?

Writing in Pilish

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Same Perimeter, Different Area For Rectangles

Can two rectangles have the same perimeter but… different areas!?

Deducing the Area of Triangles

Using patterns, students try to deduce where that area formula came from.

Math Curiosity: Odds & Squares

Why does the sum of the first 5 odds also equal 5 squared?

Running A Curiosity Based Research Project

Skip the assigned topics. Let students research what they’re genuinely curious about — here’s how to structure it so it actually works.

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture

Using this one weird trick, it seems that you can turn any number into a palindrome!

Greekymon

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Multipotentiality: Excellent at Many Things

For Teachers

Why being good at many things can be a bit of a burden.

Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs

The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.

Intellectual Intensity

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?