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In the universe of tangible gifts, some games are a good deal, delivering fun and satisfaction while honing a child's thinking skills.
"Games can help develop strategic thinking and logic," said Bucyrus High School math teacher Jackie Fruth. And games reinforce rules and regulations and the art of being a graceful winner or loser.
Games can provide some quality family time too.
For teens' math development, Fruth suggests games such as Mancala, Master Mind, Rush Hour, B... Do your students' brains seem a little lazy lately? Energize them with some brainteasers -- problems and puzzles that will get those neurons sparking and get the blood flowing to the head. Included: Additional puzzle resources for kids of all ages!
New research indicates that exercising the brain stimulates its growth and working efficiency. This week, Education World surveys some of the best puzzle sources on the Internet. We introduce each site and tell a little about it. Then we offer sample puzzles for you to share with your students.
... The eight queens puzzle is the problem of putting eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard such that none of them is able to capture any other using the standard chess queen's moves. (Piece colour is ignored, and any piece is assumed to be able to attack any other). That is to say, no two queens should share the same row, column, or diagonal. This is an example of an n queens puzzle for placing n queens on an n×n chessboard.
Trivial solution method
There is a simple method for getting a solution to any n queens puzzle, except for two and three queens :
Divide n by six. Remember the ... The rec.puzzles archive
The rec.puzzles archive offers many classic mind-benders, categorized by subject area. Among the two dozen subject areas you'll find are analogies, cryptograms, language puzzles, logic puzzles, problems of probability, riddles, and trivia puzzles. You might want to preview this site, however. Students will love it, but some of the oldies are a little bloody. Three sample puzzles appear below.
6. Bear (a g... A puzzle is a problem or enigma presented as entertainment; that is written down, acted out, etc.
Many puzzles stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems (see packing problems and tour puzzles). Others, like chess problems, are derived from board games. Others again have been devised for the sole purpose of being brain teasers.
The history of puzzles goes back many thousand years, Tangram being one of the earliest and sti... |
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