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Factoring Money
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BIZZ BUZZ BANG
The final lesson of our eleventh year was my version of a game called BIZZ BUZZ BANG.
This is a game of multiples. It takes incredible concentration. In fact, if someone talks during the game except to answer their number, other players will get confused
RULES
Spiral 7 Sudoku-like Puzzles
One of our most challenging classes of the year was a sudoku-like puzzle that requires the numbers one through seven instead of 1-9. The challenge here is that:
Tangram Puzzles and Solutions
We explored the story of Dr. Tan who held all of China's knowledge and power on this square piece of tile. One day, over 2000 years ago, he dropped the tile and it broke into seven geometric shapes. I challenged the children to use seven pieces to put the square back together. Legend has it that the world stopped spinning until Dr. Tan's students could put the pieces back together to make the square.