MathPickle
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Alberta, Canada
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Gordon Hamilton (MMath, PhD) is a mathematician and board game designer. He founded MathPickle.com in 2010 to inject hard, fun problems, puzzles and mini-competitions into math classrooms world wide. In the last year he has been featured twice in the New York Times. In November 2013, he co-hosted a conference of mathematicians and educators to select thirteen curricular unsolved problems of mathematics - one for each grade K-12. In 2015 he will be co-hosting a conference on integer sequences in the math classroom.
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A little bit of Aggression - Subtraction Game ($500 challenge)
"A little bit of Aggression" is a great way to give a classroom practice with subtraction while engaging your top students in tough problem solving. Think of it as a superior variant of Risk. There are a number of critical differences: 1) Armies do not move and 2) Armies attack into a neighbouring area and win if their total value is greater than the defender. The subtraction enters play in setting up armies.
It could be the only thing that students do in math class for grade 2 or 3, and I
1st - 4th
Arithmetic, Math
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Gordon Hamilton (MMath, PhD) is a mathematician and board game designer. He founded MathPickle.com in 2010 to inject hard, fun problems, puzzles and mini-competitions into math classrooms world wide. In the last year he has been featured twice in the New York Times. In November 2013, he co-hosted a conference of mathematicians and educators to select thirteen curricular unsolved problems of mathematics - one for each grade K-12. In 2015 he will be co-hosting a conference on integer sequences in the math classroom.
Teaching style
All students, especially the top ones, should experience failure every day. Doing this in a light-hearted way helps remove the stigma of failure from the classroom. I fail in front of my students regularly. It's okay. I get over it. So will they ;-)
Awards & shining teacher moments
No honors or awards yet for MathPickle, but the uplifting testimonials and emails from educators make up for the lack of official recognition. Here is a sample:
"Hi Gordon, I stumbled upon your site, MathPickle.com, this morning and two hours later I'm still there. Just wanted to drop you a brief note to say thank you for all the great resources, ideas, and inspiring videos! I can't wait to use some these materials this Fall with my elementary mathematics methods students as well as try the unsolved problems with my two children. Thank you, Amy Tanner (Assistant Professor, Education Department, St. Catherine University)"
My own education history
BSc
(1988, University of Calgary)
MMath
(1990, University of Waterloo)
PhD
(1996, University of Calgary)
Additional biographical information
Gordon lives with his 6 year old daughter and 9 year old son in Calgary, Canada.
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