Word Detect Puzzle
Yesterday, I posted a novel puzzle for students to tackle on my whiteboard. This puzzle has absolutely null mathematical connections, only I mean value it's nevertheless a fun i to tackle. I'm excited to run across what students create alongside this puzzle.
The puzzle involves a grid of letters. You tin flame start alongside whatsoever alphabetic quality of your alternative inward the grid. But, then, you lot may entirely deed to letters which are horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. And, you lot may non see whatsoever alphabetic quality to a greater extent than than once. The business is to honour the longest give-and-take possible which is hidden inward the grid.
Even though I typed this upward together with sized it to last printed on letter-sized paper, I ended upward printing it every bit a poster impress through Adobe PDF Reader. I printed it over 4 split upward alphabetic quality sized pages to larn inward to a greater extent than noticeable from anywhere inward the classroom.
I taped the pages together together with hung it on the dry out erase board at the front end of my room.
Next to it, I designated a house on the dry out erase board for students to write downwardly words every bit they industrial plant life them.
This is where things got interesting. I decided to honour a few words to add together to the listing to whet my students' appetites for the puzzle. I stared at the puzzle together with stared some to a greater extent than together with industrial plant life NOTHING. Not the give-and-take nothing. I hateful I didn't honour a unmarried word. Okay. This puzzle is harder than I thought.
I shared the photograph on twitter terminal nighttime to run across what others thought, together with at that spot are indeed some really interesting words hidden inward the puzzle. I'm nevertheless non sure as shooting what the longest give-and-take is though. I volition persevere at solving this myself together with non cheat together with await at the response fundamental inward the dorsum of the book!
This morning, my pre-calc students came inward together with forthwith jumped into solving the puzzle every bit a class. One pupil jumped upward together with started making a listing of words on the dry out erase board every bit other students came upward alongside them. Other students pulled upward the lexicon on their phones to run across if sure as shooting combinations did indeed while words. They were thus mad when I made them halt looking for words thus nosotros could start looking at double angle identities. I'm intentionally non attaching a photograph of the words they industrial plant life because I don't desire to ruin your fun!
Speaking of books, I require to grade credit for the source of this puzzle. It's from i of my favorite puzzle books, Puzzle Box, Volume 1 (affiliate link) from Dover Publications. This is the outset mass inward a serial of 3 puzzle books that are edited past times the Peter together with Serhiy Grabarchuk. This specific puzzle is by Peter Grabarchuk.
Each mass has 300 puzzles, together with I accept industrial plant life over a hundred puzzles betwixt the 3 volumes that I would similar to conform to role inward my classroom some day. If you lot honey puzzles or if you lot are looking for resources to learn your students to argue logically, Puzzle Box, Volumes 1-3 (affiliate link) are the books for you!
You tin flame larn a dandy gustation of what types of puzzles they accept to offering you lot together with your students past times looking at the free Amazon Preview! Just click the "Look Inside" push clit for each book. If you're logged into Amazon, you lot tin flame click "Surprise Me!" on the left side of the page. This volition allow you lot run across quite a few of the puzzles within the mass for free. I typed upward my outset Puzzle Box puzzle from the gratis preview. Then, I did some to a greater extent than looking around together with knew I had to club it!
You tin flame download the file for this puzzle here.
Even though I typed this upward together with sized it to last printed on letter-sized paper, I ended upward printing it every bit a poster impress through Adobe PDF Reader. I printed it over 4 split upward alphabetic quality sized pages to larn inward to a greater extent than noticeable from anywhere inward the classroom.
I taped the pages together together with hung it on the dry out erase board at the front end of my room.
Next to it, I designated a house on the dry out erase board for students to write downwardly words every bit they industrial plant life them.
This is where things got interesting. I decided to honour a few words to add together to the listing to whet my students' appetites for the puzzle. I stared at the puzzle together with stared some to a greater extent than together with industrial plant life NOTHING. Not the give-and-take nothing. I hateful I didn't honour a unmarried word. Okay. This puzzle is harder than I thought.
I shared the photograph on twitter terminal nighttime to run across what others thought, together with at that spot are indeed some really interesting words hidden inward the puzzle. I'm nevertheless non sure as shooting what the longest give-and-take is though. I volition persevere at solving this myself together with non cheat together with await at the response fundamental inward the dorsum of the book!
This morning, my pre-calc students came inward together with forthwith jumped into solving the puzzle every bit a class. One pupil jumped upward together with started making a listing of words on the dry out erase board every bit other students came upward alongside them. Other students pulled upward the lexicon on their phones to run across if sure as shooting combinations did indeed while words. They were thus mad when I made them halt looking for words thus nosotros could start looking at double angle identities. I'm intentionally non attaching a photograph of the words they industrial plant life because I don't desire to ruin your fun!
Speaking of books, I require to grade credit for the source of this puzzle. It's from i of my favorite puzzle books, Puzzle Box, Volume 1 (affiliate link) from Dover Publications. This is the outset mass inward a serial of 3 puzzle books that are edited past times the Peter together with Serhiy Grabarchuk. This specific puzzle is by Peter Grabarchuk.
Each mass has 300 puzzles, together with I accept industrial plant life over a hundred puzzles betwixt the 3 volumes that I would similar to conform to role inward my classroom some day. If you lot honey puzzles or if you lot are looking for resources to learn your students to argue logically, Puzzle Box, Volumes 1-3 (affiliate link) are the books for you!
You tin flame larn a dandy gustation of what types of puzzles they accept to offering you lot together with your students past times looking at the free Amazon Preview! Just click the "Look Inside" push clit for each book. If you're logged into Amazon, you lot tin flame click "Surprise Me!" on the left side of the page. This volition allow you lot run across quite a few of the puzzles within the mass for free. I typed upward my outset Puzzle Box puzzle from the gratis preview. Then, I did some to a greater extent than looking around together with knew I had to club it!
You tin flame download the file for this puzzle here.
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