Arrows Puzzle From Puzzle Box, Book 1

This week, I'm trying out a dissimilar form of puzzle on the puzzle table. Instead of beingness a puzzle where students bring to adjust diverse laminated pieces similar I oft use, this is a coloring puzzle. To brand things easier on students, I placed the puzzle within an 11 x 17 dry out erase pocket (affiliate link).


This puzzle, written past times Erich Friedman, is featured inward Puzzle Box, Volume 1 past times Dover Publications (affiliate link). 

m trying out a dissimilar form of puzzle on the puzzle tabular array Arrows Puzzle from Puzzle Box, Volume 1

My students bring seemed a chip intimidated past times this puzzle this week, as well as then I'm wondering if I ask to rewrite the instructions somehow. The destination of the puzzle is to color a subset of the given arrows as well as then that each uncolored arrow points at just i other uncolored arrow as well as each colored arrow points at just 2 other colored arrows.


Some of my students who are regulars at the puzzle tabular array read the instructions as well as right away decided this puzzle was non for them without fifty-fifty attempting it. I'm wondering if the coloring appear is business office of the issue. If I laminated as well as cutting out dissimilar colored/uncolored arrows that students could house on the puzzle board, would they move to a greater extent than willing to hand the puzzle a try? 


During my planning catamenia today, I sat downwards alongside a educatee who often hangs out inward my room during my planning catamenia (he has a gratis hour), as well as solved this puzzle alongside him. Once I read the instructions as well as re-explained what it meant for an arrow to indicate at other arrows, he was able to pretty much solve the puzzle alongside alone a tiny chip of guidance from me.

This makes me recall that this puzzle would brand a meliorate class-wide challenge than a puzzle tabular array challenge which is to a greater extent than of a tackle-it-on-your-own-if-you-are-so-inclined challenge.

Interested inward this puzzle for your classroom? I've uploaded the file here. It's designed to impress on eleven x 17 paper, merely y'all tin easily impress it scaled to 65% to impress it on missive of the alphabet sized paper.

Interested inward to a greater extent than puzzles for your classroom? Check out Puzzle Box, Volumes 1-3 (affiliate link). 

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