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This night while tape-recording 2 Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & & Share Cool Things I was advised of a cool math and map challenge activity from Mathigon. Heres what I discussed it last year..

Mathigons map coloring difficulty is to use as couple of colors as possible to color in all 50 U.S. states without the very same color touching 2 states at the very same time. If I color New Hampshire purple, I cant utilize purple on Vermont, Maine, New York, or Massachusetts however I might use purple on Pennsylvania.
Mathigons map coloring obstacle can be completed online where they use the same challenge for coloring maps of South America, England, and Germany. But if you send your trainees to that page theyll be able to quickly click to see the option to the challenge. What I d do rather is print a blank map from a site like Printable World Map then have trainees attempt the obstacle. Another choice would be to publish an overview map to a service like Googles Jamboard to color the map online. Watch my video listed below to find out how that procedure works.