Each week we feature a new puzzle that you
can print out in black and white on a single page and use as a
black line master with your students. Schools have reported great
success by encouraging families to work on the puzzles together at
home. Print out the PDF file, file the solution page and make
copies of the Challenge page to hand out to your students.
String of Rings...
Paulina the pack rat is ready to
drag her latest find back to the nest. Are all six rings captured on the
loop of string?
Blanche runs a quilting class.
She has asked her students to fold and cut a lavender square of fabric,
following the pattern shown on the chart above. The results are in.
Which of the four students' squares is the correct fold and cut as
indicated by the chart?
Al is getting ready to cut out these patterns and fold each of them
into a cube, assisted only by his roll of scotch tape. Do you think he
will be successful with this?
Frank and Helen's annual singles elimination
tennis tournament has drawn 18 players this year. How many matches
must be played before there is a winner for the year?
Roland has sketched three different top views of
a funny face for a new building project. From these three sketches,
can you select the top view that Roland chose to make the three
dimensional head illustrated above?
Hilda D. Rosen, Earl Wade, and Roy Kewn had a big
laugh at the convention when they realized that the letters of their
names, when rearranged, spelled out the names of each of their home
States. From what State does each of these delegates hail?
When
the monument is finished it will be an enormous cube, painted blue
on the outside walls but left unadorned on all inner surfaces. How
many of the remaining stones needed to complete the monument will be
painted blue on exactly two sides?
These young ladies are Rose, Daisy and Iris, but not necessarily in that order.
On prom night they gathered to get their picture taken. While posing, the
woman wearing the rose corsage said, “I just noticed that the flowers in our
corsages match our names, but none of us are wearing a flower that matches our
own name.” “Wow!”, said Iris, “you’re right!” Given these clues, can you
identify who is who in the illustration?
The young sorceress is planning a brew. The recipe calls for exactly 2
liters of liquid. To her dismay, she can only find a 5 liter and an 8
liter pitcher. Can she use these pitchers only to measure out the two
liters of liquid she needs?
