Volume 11: Toothpick Activities

Each puzzle in this activity book starts with toothpicks dropped onto a table or placed to make structures or patterns.  Can you count how many triangles are formed by the toothpicks?

For the downloadable activity book, click here.

Solution book coming soon!

Volume 10: Rolling Cubes Puzzles

Each puzzle in this activity book starts with the premise that a painted cube leaves a trail of paint behind as it rolls.  Can you discover the patterns in the paint trails?

For the downloadable activity book, click here.

Solution book coming soon!

Volume 9: Cube Stack Activity

Volume 9:  Each puzzle in this activity shows three 2-dimensional views of a stack of cubes.  Use the information given to recreate the stack. You can either draw the cube stack in the area provided in the activity book, or you can build the stack with blocks, dice, sugar cubes, or any other small cubes you can find.

A downloadable copy of the activity book is available here.

The solutions are available here.

Volume 8: Rotation War Game

Volume 8: This activity is a game to give kids practice with rotational symmetry.

To play, print out a copy of the page for each player, then cut out the boxes to make 20 cards each.  Here is a colored version in case your institution pays for colored copying.

This card game is based on the classic card game War.  In the usual game of War the card with the highest number wins.  Here, the card with shape with the highest order of rotational symmetry wins.

A shape has rotational symmetry if it looks as if its position hasn't changed after a rotation by a partial turn around a central point.  The "order" of rotational symmetry of an object is the number of different rotational positions in which the object can be turned and still looks as if its position is the same. 

Volume 7: Balance Scale Puzzles

Volume 7: This volume is a short activity based on a classic logic puzzle.

To download the activity booklet, click this link:  Volume 7 Balance Scale Activity

Solutions will be published soon.  

Volume 6: Cube and Wire Puzzles

Volume 6: This volume is an activity for practicing 3 dimensional reasoning.  

Picture each drawing as a transparent solid cube with a thick continuous piece of wire wrapped around the outside.  
The goal is to draw what such a cube would look like in two dimensions from the top view, side view, and front view. 
 The students should draw their answers on the answer sheet template.  

To download the activity booklet, click this link:  Volume 6: Cube and Wire Puzzles

To download the answer sheet template, click this link: Template

For the solution manual, click this link: Solutions to Cube Puzzles

Volume 5: Area Activity Booklet

Volume 5: This volume gives students a visual introduction to area.

To download the activity booklet, click this link: Volume 5: Practice with Area

For the solution manual, click this link: Area Activity Solutions Manual

Volume 4: Choosing Problems Booklet with Pascal's Triangle

Volume 4: This volume gives students a visual introduction to choosing problems and Pascal's Triangle.

To download the activity booklet, click this link:  Volume 4: Choosing Problems Activity Book

To download the solutions manual, click this link:Solutions Manual Choosing Problems

Volume 3: Symmetry Activity Book

This activity book gives students practice with reflection and rotation symmetry.

To download the booklet, click this link: Symmetry Book

To download the solutions manual, click this link:  Solutions Manual

Volume 2: Museum Guard Problems

This activity book asks students to imagine how they would place guards in different museum rooms so that the guards have a view of the entire room and no robbers can get away unseen. 

To download the booklet, click this link:  Museum Guard Problems

To download the solutions manual, click this link:   Solutions to Museum Guard Problems

Volume 1: Isometric Dot Paper Activites

Volume 1: Isometric Dot Paper and Extensions

Isometric dot paper is a tool used by engineers to draw and visualize three-dimensional forms.  This activity book gives students practice with drawing and reasoning in three dimensions.

To download the booklet, click this link: Problem Set

To download the solutions manual, click this link: Solutions