Lee Elementary School Math Club – Fall 2025

 

Club leaders: Lily Aaronson and Dana Moshkovitz.

Participants: Kids in fourth and fifth grade at Lee Elementary.

 

Every meeting is one hour. The meeting typically features a pair of related games, puzzles or magic tricks. Here they are (we update this page as we go):

1.          Playing Nim with Pop-Its.

 

2.          Game of 100.

 

3.          I’m thinking of a number between 1 and 100 (binary search).

 

4.          Binary magic trick.

 

5.          24 Competition.

 

6.          How many numbers can you make with four fours?

 

7.          A math competition in the style of Math Kangaroo.

 

8.          Can you guarantee a win in Tic-tac-toe?

 

9.          Ultimate Tic-tac-toe.

 

10.       Draw in one stroke a star (easy) or a house (harder).

 

11.       Tour the bridges of Königsberg or the five rooms.

 

12.       The wolf, the sheep and the cabbage.

 

13.       The Tower of Hanoi.

 

14.       Cupcake Academy.

 

15.       Set!

 

16.       Picture algebra game in this style.

 

17.       A taste of Math Counts.

 

18.       Sudoku.

 

19.       Compute areas of magna tiles shapes.

 

20.       Pi measurements, computing the areas of circles.