Three Checker Game on a One Row Board
The setup for the 2-players game described below consists of three checkers placed on a K×1 board: A move consists in picking one of the outside checkers and placing it anywhere between the other two....
View ArticleA Kindergarten Activity As a Problem for Adolescents
Twelve kids stand in a circle, a kid per one of twelve marked spots. Every now and then one moves clockwise, another counterclockwise to an adjacent position (which may be occupied by more than one kid...
View ArticleDominoes and Chessboard Activities
Tiling a chessboard with dominoes is uniquely suitable as an entertaining and edifying activity even for young children. Both implements are widely available, while experimentation with them leads to a...
View ArticleFowl Photos for Subitizing
Subitizing is the ability to discern the number of object on a group without actually counting the objects. Even babies and animals do subitizing with small groups. The photos below present an...
View ArticleElementary Problems that Beg for Generalization
In a well known puzzle, a father willed to his three sons camels, with the proviso that of the inheritance should go to the oldest among them, with being due to the middle one and to the youngest....
View ArticleKordemsky's Palindrome Problem
In his last book Mathematical Allurments (Matematicheskie Zavlekalki), published posthumously in 2000, he tells a story of a 7th grade girl who got tempted to solve that problem and found a solution,...
View ArticleWeekly report, the week of March 28, 2016
The present collection supplies a perfect illustration to the fact that even the most simplest of the problems may be looked at from various angles. I wish that the authors of school textbooks that...
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