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How To Solve Problems in Real Life????: Mathematics Puzzles
How To Solve Problems in Real Life????: Mathematics Puzzles
PUZZLES
To inspire students to create their own versions to share with their
classmates
How to solve
problems in real
life????
Some Puzzle-Solving Tips • Does the puzzle have multiple answers, or at least one
optional answer?
– Puzzle solving is sometimes like • Try thinking of ways to twist, bend, separate, or spin the
mathematical problem-solving, but puzzle.
– at other times you have to move away What does it look like backward, forward, upside down, and
sideways?
from standard approaches to
• Does your answer make sense? Can you plug your answer
– learning mathematics when solving these back into
puzzles. Think about the the question to check all the parameters?
• If your answer seems absurd or counterintuitive, can you
– puzzles from different perspectives and still
with a sense of play. Consider defend it? Your answer may very well be correct, even
– some of the following: though it
seems strange or unusual.
– • Can the puzzle be solved by breaking it • Don’t worry about how you might be seen if you can’t
down into simpler solve
the puzzle. We all make mistakes, and no one can answer
– components?
every
– • Do any patterns repeat often enough to question. Just relax, have a good time, and don’t worry
suggest a prediction for about other
people’s opinions.
– “what comes next”?
Solve the
puzzle here