At the Joint Math Meetings, some folks from the VCU Breakthroughs team presented some activities on knots using a silicone necklace manipulative. Today we'll look at a set of puzzles inspired by that.
In this post, we'll look at some puzzles based on the presentations of finite groups that students will approach as a puzzle of turning one string into another according to some rule set.
As summer approaches, JRMF's plan is to develop a slew of activities to test in the fall. To that end, I'll be trying to post activities more frequently but with less of a mathematical dive. Today we'll look at some puzzles involving making polyhedra from a set of faces.