When a teacher uses puzzles and riddles he primarily to raise children to think, that is to “teach” them to think. It is important to use puzzles to guide children on how to approach different subjects. An idea to use puzzles and puzzles in kindergarten is to bring a riddle or puzzle on Mondays and give the children a week to solve the puzzle and the children can get help from their parents. The children could also be allowed to bring riddles and puzzles to the kindergarten that the parents help their children with.
Eldspýtnaþrautir
Here I will present puzzles with matches that test children’s reasoning.
- game
Competition between two individuals. 15, 21, 23 or 25 matches are arranged between competitors. They take turns taking one, two or three matches away at a time. But the goal is not to be the one to take the last spear.
A good competition between children would be that the one who would win would advance and so on until one stands out as the winner (Eldspýtnaþrautir 2007).
Game 2
rectangle
and diamonds are made with 8 matches. Move more than three matches to create an isosceles triangle in addition to the original shape. What is the correct method? (Triangle in Addition 2008).
Here is a good website with a collection of some match puzzles: Matchstick Puzzles.
picture Riddles
Th when a teacher puts image could for children is recommended that the film is first shown. Maybe someone knows the answer right away and then the teacher needs to mention before setting up the picture do not mention the answer immediately, as everyone needs to be given the opportunity to solve the puzzle. The next step is to divide the children into several groups and try to find the solution, and when the groups have been given scope to solve the puzzle, the teacher asks the groups to come up with suggestions for results.
Examples of fun picture riddles are riddles by Gunnar Halldórsson. Here you can access the image puzzles:
Mysterious track
treasure Trove
Suspension Bridge
Cable through culvert
How far is it to the mountain?
Why did the boat sink?
slamming doors
What kind of case?
How to convey a message of urgency?
Children find camouflage fun and it is ideal to break up the day by slamming some camouflage on the projector and allowing the children to spray themselves. Here is one camouflage I found on the net that can be used:
Here are the things to look for
(Scott Brooks [no year]).
On this website you will find a good collection of interactive camouflage games.
There are also hallucinogenic pictures that children enjoy looking at and here is a page that contains about 80 hallucinogenic pictures that Michael Back, at the University of Freiburg in Germany has collected
and here is another similar site.
How many legs does the elephant have?
Simple tables and cards
- game – Hex
Children learn resourcefulness and reasoning. The game is by the Danish mathematician, poet, and philosopher Piet Hein. There are two players and the game is played on a board (as the picture above shows, it should be noted that the red player won). Here are the rules of the game: He. L udoteka. Hex is also in the series of puzzle puzzles.
Game 2 – Cross and rings
Cross and Ring or Mylla as it is called, is a very simple and fun game. All you need is a piece of paper and a pencil. And it works this way: On the sheet, you need to make four lines as the picture shows. One player is a ring, while the other is a cross. One starts writing his logo in a box and then the other player and so on. Players should try to get their mark either three times to the side, up or down or diagonally. Whoever manages to do that wins. As in the previous game, the children learn resourcefulness and reasoning in this game.
Rökleitargátur
In this category you will find riddles based on specific descriptions, where the children should solve the riddles with purposeful questions and be quick to explain situations.
- Riddle
Here is an example of one logical riddle: “There is a man swimming in the middle of the Atlantic. He’s all right and the only thing he has with him is a half match. What is the poor man doing there? ”
Answer: “The man was with his friends in a balloon. The balloon was falling, so they tried to lighten it by throwing off their clothes. When that was not enough, they decided who should jump overboard. The person who drew half a match had to jump into the sea. ” ( Rational search riddle ).
Here are some websites that contain logic search puzzles in English:
Situation Puzzles List
Lateral Thinking
geometry Puzzles
I searched for geometry puzzles online by entering the keyword: Geometry Puzzles, Geometric Puzzles and Geometrical Puzzles. These pages were selected:
Geometry Puzzles
Geometric Puzzels in the Classroom
Puzzle Playground – Geometrical Puzzles
Sagnagátur
1st riddle
Here is the riddle:
“In the old days, a person who owed money to others could not go to prison and could not pay. A merchant in London had the misfortune to owe a few large sums of money. The ocher, old and ugly, coveted the merchant’s daughter, who was gifted and very beautiful. The grower offered the merchant a contract. If he had a daughter, the debt would be reduced.
Both the merchant and the daughter were horrified by this offer. The cunning thug then suggested that they let the management rule. His suggestion was that they put two pebbles, one black and the other white, in an empty money bag and the girl could then pull the other peel out of the bag. If she drew the black one, she would be his. If the whites belonged to her, they would be free of all issues. In both cases, the debt was to be reduced. If, on the other hand, she did not want to take part in the game, her father would be thrown into prison and hunger and misery await her.
The merchant reluctantly agreed. They were standing outside in the yard. The yard had gravel made of black and white pebbles. The ocher bent down to pick up the two whales. The girl, with her eyes swollen with fear, saw that there were tricks in the game because the ocher put two black pebbles in the sack. The okrarin ordered the girl to pull. The girl hesitated for a moment but then a safe way out of the problem struck her. She …
Shortly thereafter, the okrar was disappointed and the father and son were free.
How could that be? ” ( Okrarinn 2007 )
test:
I put the riddle to 13-year-old girls and they came to the conclusion that the girl had picked up one white stone and put it in her hand before she put her hand in the bag.
- Riddle
“A group of Australian teenagers went camping in a desert island this weekend. They were taken there by boat on Friday night and it was decided to pick them up again on Sunday night. The island was far from land in a deserted fjord and was not visible from settlements.
The island was long and narrow, a total of 6 km long and lay north-south, all covered with dense forest and mostly flat.
The group settled in a clearing in the middle of the island, the only one that could be found there. There the young people pitched their tents, after which they sat down to chat and sing. As the evening wore on, they went for a walk. First they went down to the beach and were going to wade and even have a swim, because the weather was very hot. Nothing could happen because it was very deep and a short distance from land they saw a shark sucker in the water. They thought they knew that man-eating sharks were going there, so they decided to walk along the coast to the north. As the evening wore on it began to hiss. The wind was blowing from the north. And all of a sudden they smelled fire.
D when they had gone some distance they saw the horror of the forest fires had caught fire in the northern part of the island and bar fire rapidly south in the wind. In a short time, the forest caught fire. The northern part of the island was on fire. There was no way to put out the fire and the teenagers fled to the south. Terrified, they began to discuss whether it would be better to fall prey to the fire or to catch a shark’s mouth. There seemed to be no way to the rescue …
Can you help them? ”
(Save the teens 2007).
Testing :
As before, 13-year-old girls had to try to find the solution to this riddle, and their answer was that it was raining or that the weather was changing, so the fire did not reach them.
- Riddle
“An investigating police officer was sent from the city to search a house in a rural area. The house was pitch black and it was believed that a theft was stored there. After driving along the main highway from the city, he turned into a narrow road. He drove past a lake and then a cemetery. Eventually he came to the black house that stood between the hills and hills. He searched the house but did not find a clue, but continued to search.
In the next house, which was white, lived a man named John Rook. In fact, he owned many other houses nearby. Since John Rook was interested in getting the money himself, he made a plan on how he could get rid of the policeman.
He invited the policeman to stay with him in the White House. In the room where he invited the policeman to stay, there was only one small window, but outside he could clearly see the black house as the sun was setting behind the house.
After having dinner with his host, the policeman became very tired and went to grace and slept soundly. The next morning he woke up, looked out of the window where the sun was rising and saw to his surprise that the black house had disappeared. He ran out and saw that the house was completely gone. As a result, neither seaweed nor teats were seen, not even a movement on earth.
Steinhissa the policeman decided to return to the city. He drove past a barn and entered the main highway to the city “.
Here is a picture of the village where the police officer was:
test:
The girls had no idea of the answer to this riddle and eventually guessed that the man had painted his house black and the other white, to mislead the police.
