Spring Break

Showing posts with label Spring Break. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Break. Show all posts
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Logic Puzzle Love: Tents

Back earlier boundary break, I tried out ii new-to-me logic puzzles alongside my students.  I already blogged virtually the Slants puzzles from Brain Bashers.  Today, I desire to weblog virtually the Tents puzzles from Brain Bashers.  

These Tents puzzles tin hold out establish here on the Brain Bashers website.

I created a one-page introduction alongside the rules for these Tents puzzles to give to my students.  

  
Then, I used my snipping tool to view several puzzles for my students to drive their hands at. 

Page 1 of Puzzles:


Page 2 of Puzzles:



Page iii of Puzzles:



I didn't truly drive whatever of these puzzles out for myself earlier giving them to my students.  

Here's how my commencement puzzle went: 


I persuasion I was doing good, in addition to thence of a abrupt things merely stopped falling into place.  I had no persuasion where/when I had made a error alongside my logic.  My students also truly struggled alongside this commencement puzzle.

I'm happy to written report that I did much improve alongside the subsequent puzzles!


One of my students came dorsum from Spring Break maxim she had done approximately of the puzzles over suspension in addition to truly enjoyed them.  I telephone telephone that a win!

I've uploaded the file I created to innovate my students to these puzzles here.


Monday, October 30, 2017

Slants Puzzles from Brainbashers.com

In the terminal few days earlier Spring Break, a large subdivision of my students were gone for diverse reasons.  I decided it was non an ideal fourth dimension to offset a construct novel unit of measurement inward trigonometry.  So, I went looking for a novel logic puzzle to innovate my trig students to.  Many of these students accept been inward my math classes since they were eighth graders, together with then they've seen almost all of the puzzles I accept upward my sleeve.  

I constitute these interesting looking slant puzzles from brainbashers.com.  I created a one-page introduction amongst the rules for these puzzles to give to my students. 


Then, I used my snipping tool to select handgrip of several puzzles for my students to endeavour their hands at. 

Page 1 of Puzzles:


Page two of Puzzles:


Page three of Puzzles: 


Some of my students got actually into these puzzles.  Others, non together with then much.  


If I was going to role these amongst my students again, I would construct a MUCH bigger bargain close the "Loops are non allowed" rule.  Many of my students ignored this rule...

Image Source: https://www.brainbashers.com/slanthelp.asp 

I enjoyed these puzzles myself.  I await forrard to doing to a greater extent than of them inward the future.

Interested inward the file I created amongst the rules together with sample puzzles?  I accept uploaded it here.