Logic & Puzzles - Engaging Resources

LR SO1 - Logic & Puzzles Concept Summary & Resource
(Download: Puzzles & Games pkg.pdf)

This resource contains sample problems from the Assessment Standards & Exemplars document and Quest A+ as well as many links to various sites with puzzles & games.

7 Processes focus: Reasoning.  Visit the Reasoning Process page for more ideas on how to incorporate Reasoning in your teaching.

LR SO1 - Math in Movies - Die Hard III and the Decanting Puzzles

The website Mathematics in Movies is a great website that may capture students attention and make math a bit more fun.  The following is an example using Die Hard III:

1.  Start with this movie clip and stop it at 1:10 minutes to allow students to try the problem.

2.  Link to this page for an interactive that allows you or students to investigate the solution and also provides harder levels of the decanting puzzle for those higher level students. --- 

3.  Once the students have had enough, play the end of the movie clip to show the answer and how Willis and Jackson saved the bomb from detonating.