Zukei Puzzles For Practicing Geometric Vocabulary

This summer, I wrote 5 weblog posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) featuring Japanese logic puzzles that are perfect for the math classroom.  All of these puzzles are the creation of Naoki Inaba.  Inaba has posted these puzzles for costless on his website, but it tin live a flake difficult to navigate since everything is written inwards Japanese.

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Here are the instructions for the Zukei puzzles on Inaba's website:

Image Source: http://inabapuzzle.com/study/zukei_q.pdf

The puzzle file from Inaba features 42 puzzles focusing on the next geometric vocabulary words: square, rectangle, isosceles triangle, isosceles correct triangle, correct triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, as well as parallelogram.  This summer, I used google interpret to interpret the clues for each of the 42 puzzles.  I made this google doc equally a telephone commutation to permit the puzzles to live used inwards an English linguistic communication speaking classroom.

To brand the puzzles easier to role inwards our classrooms, I used the snipping tool as well as the google Dr. to brand an English linguistic communication version of the activity.  My version ended upwardly beingness vi pages long.  Then, I sent the file to my husband.  He rearranged the images as well as labels to compress it into a iv page document.

We both ended upwardly using his compressed version amongst our classes correct earlier Christmas break.  My trig students weren't the happiest almost having to practice locomote on the LAST twenty-four lx minutes menses earlier Christmas break, but they survived.  It definitely stretched their brains.  For my trig kids, it had been a pair of years since they had been required to intend almost shapes similar parallelograms as well as rhombuses.  So, it was a dainty vocab review for them.

I also gave a laid upwardly of puzzles to ane of my eighth graders who is taking Algebra.  This pupil LOVES challenges as well as puzzles!  When he was struggling amongst the parallelograms, nosotros started talking almost how nosotros tin lead keep what nosotros had learned almost parallel lines having the same gradient inwards Algebra 1 as well as apply it to these puzzles.

These puzzles are fun.  And, they are frustrating!  We won't verbalize almost how long I was stuck trying to figure out puzzle set out 6!  In fact, I alone figured it out because a pupil spoiled it for me!

I experience similar I ask to remind you lot ane time once again that I did non practice these puzzles.  I precisely re-formatted them to brand them usable inwards English linguistic communication speaking classrooms.  All of the puzzles were created past times Naoki Inaba.  Here is his total page of math puzzles.

Here is what the iv page file of puzzles looks similar afterwards beingness translated past times me as well as arranged past times my husband.

The files (both the vi page as well as iv page versions) lead keep been uploaded here inwards PUB as well as PDF format.

Ever since I used them inwards class, I've been thinking almost how to modify them for role inwards my Algebra 1 class.  I would honey to lead keep these puzzles on a coordinate grid.  Then, students would lead keep to write the equations of the lines that went through each pair of points to shape each shape.  Hmm...

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