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I love presenting my students with this interactive frog jumping puzzle that I found online here.  Each frog can only jump the way it is facing.  And, frogs can only jump over frogs of the opposite color.  The goal of the puzzle is to make the frogs switch sides.   I give different a students …

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Last week, I attended my first Math Teachers’ Circle meeting of the 2015-2016 school year.  This is my third year to be involved in a circle, and it’s been a ton of fun.  We got to experience spherical geometry using balloons and sharpies, but that’s a post for another day. Today, I want to talk …

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Petals Around the Rose is a fun and frustrating dice-based brainteaser. It makes a great activity for the first week of school in math class! I first learned about Petals Around the Rose from Annie Forest in her blog post on 8 Ideas for the Last Minutes of Math Class.  Usually, I read a post …

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