In our homeschool math group we work through different math exercises to help better the math intelligence of those involved. It is an interesting group consisting of an older group of two teenagers, a middle group of five ten year old boys and four younger children.
We present the same problems to each group and it is wonderful to see the different thought processes used to attack the problem.
This past week we were working on river crossing problems, beginning with the basic wolf, chicken and grain.
The young ones initial solution was to take the chicken across. Then they came back for the grain and stated that the wolf would swim along side the boat thus getting everything across the river. It was interesting this "out of the boat" thinking and a lesson for the parent leaders to clearly define the parameters of a question.
This week we move on to magic boxes, similar to sudoku but involving sums.
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