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BRAIN FREEZE

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Don't let these brain teasers frost you!

 Solve the puzzles in the back of your Inking About Thinking journal. Always add the date and title of the problem. 

  

 Evaluate each problem that you complete. How did it make you think? 

3- A snap!  5- Got it once I thought about it  8- AHA! I persevered and finally got it. 10 - Tah Dah! I can't believe I solved it!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

SOCK IT TO 'EM MATH PROBLEMS ... in honour of Albert Einstein who was born on March 14,1879. This brilliant physicist never wore socks!

     

 

Read the article " Why Einstein Stopped Wearing Socks".

Record the answer and 5 other interesting facts you did not know about this quirky famous physicist. 

 

2. MIXED UP SOCKS

 

Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair.

Socks

Now try it with four pairs of socks. Is there more than one way to do it?

 

 

 

3.THE SOCK DRAWER PROBLEM

 

 

 

You are about to leave for holiday, but you forgot your socks! You race back to your room, but all the lights are off , so you can't see the colour of the socks. Never mind, because you remember that in your drawer are ten pairs of white socks, ten pairs of black socks, and eleven pairs of blue socks. You can only take one sock from the drawer at a time. How many of your socks do you need to take before you can be sure you have at best one matching pair?

 

 

4. Can you solve this Einstein puzzle? 

Eight married couples meet to lend one another some books. Couples have the same surname, employment and car. Each couple has a favourite colour. Furthermore we know the following facts:

1. Daniella Black and her husband work as Shop Assistants.
2. The book “The Seadog” was brought by a couple who drive a Fiat and love the colour red.
3. Owen and his wife Victoria like the colour brown.
4. Stan Horricks and his wife Hannah like the colour white.
5. Jenny Smith and her husband work as Warehouse Managers and they drive a Wartburg.
6. Monica and her husband Alexander borrowed the book “Grandfather Joseph”.
7. Matthew and his wife like the colour pink and brought the book “Mulatka Gabriela”.
8. Irene and her husband Oto work as Accountants.
9. The book “We Were Five” was borrowed by a couple driving a Trabant.
10. The Cermaks are both Ticket-Collectors who brought the book “Shed Stoat”.
11. Mr and Mrs Kuril are both Doctors who borrowed the book “Slovacko Judge”.
12. Paul and his wife like the colour green.
13. Veronica Dvorak and her husband like the colour blue.
14. Rick and his wife brought the book “Slovacko Judge” and they drive a Ziguli.
15. One couple brought the book “Dame Commissar” and borrowed the book “Mulatka Gabriela”.
16. The couple who drive a Dacia, love the colour violet.
17. The couple who work as Teachers borrowed the book “Dame Commissar”.
18. The couple who work as Agriculturalists drive a Moskvic.
19. Pamela and her husband drive a Renault and brought the book “Grandfather Joseph”.
20. Pamela and her husband borrowed the book that Mr and Mrs Zajac brought.
21. Robert and his wife like the color yellow and borrowed the book “The Modern Comedy”.
22. Mr and Mrs Swain work as Shoppers.
23. “The Modern Comedy” was brought by a couple driving a Skoda.

Who likes Violet? Can you find out everything about everyone from this?       Picture 20

 

 

5. If the day after the day before yesterday was Tuesday, and the day before the day after tomorrow is Thursday, 

   what day is today?

Picture 16

 

 

 

 

6. WORD LINKS

      The first mention of 'word links' or doublets was mentioned in Lewis Carroll's diary

      on March 12, 1878. He published a series of these puzzles in the March 29th 1879 issue of

      Vanity Fair and they became an instant success.

 

    Lewis Carroll 1832- 1898 

 

 

 

Try these doublet challenges! Use your mathematical reasoning abilities!

 

1. Can you evolve APE into MAN with just four links?
2. Make FLOUR into BREAD with five links.
3. Increase ONE to TWO with six links.
4. Make GRASS GREEN with six links.
5. Turn BLUE into PINK with eight links.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

   GAMES to ENTERTAIN

 

1.  Four in a Line

  

   Can you beat it? 

 

 

2. Sudoku  

   

 

3.

 

Entertain yourself with a daily game of SET.    

Beware, this game really works your brain.

 

Winner of  Over 25 Best Games Awards

SET® is a highly addictive, original game of visual perception; a fascinating challenge for either solitaire or competitive play.  To create a SET, a player must locate three cards in which each of the four features is either all the same on each card or all different on each card, when looked at individually. The four features are, symbol (oval, squiggle or diamond), color (red, purple or green), number (one, two or three) or shading (solid, striped or open). 

 

 

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