1. The document discusses puzzles and their benefits. Puzzles challenge the mind and stimulate thinking to find solutions. They have been around as long as language and some of the earliest date back to ancient Mesopotamia.
2. Puzzles can be viewed as one-player games where the solver makes moves to find a solution according to the rules. They help develop problem solving and other skills in children such as fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
3. Examples of puzzles are provided with missing numbers to solve. The answers are given at the end.
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Puzzles
1. The document discusses puzzles and their benefits. Puzzles challenge the mind and stimulate thinking to find solutions. They have been around as long as language and some of the earliest date back to ancient Mesopotamia.
2. Puzzles can be viewed as one-player games where the solver makes moves to find a solution according to the rules. They help develop problem solving and other skills in children such as fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
3. Examples of puzzles are provided with missing numbers to solve. The answers are given at the end.
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INTRODUCTION
Puzzles is any problem that challenges the mind, stimulates thinking for potential solutions and provides a rewarding experience upon solving a puzzles are reflection of the human tendency toward curiosity and may be as old as language . The earliest puzzles in history dates to the 2 nd millennium BC on the middle east. Puzzles as one player games ,One quite useful way to view mathematical puzzles is as games where only one person ( the person playing the game) make moves. We can borrow all of theoretical tools of game theory to analyze puzzles. Mathematical puzzles make up an integral part of recreational mathematics. They have specific rules as do multiplayer games, but they do not usually involve competition between two or more player instead to solve such a puzzles the solver must find a solution that the game condition. Puzzles can be grouped into three broad class; riddles &word puzzles, mathematical & logical puzzles, and physical& mechanical puzzles.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PUZZLES
1. Puzzles considered helping to childs mental development. 2. Puzzles provide that key opportunity to children learn to work directly with their environment and change its shape and appearance when they work with puzzles. 3. Puzzles provide the opportunity for children to develop fine motor skills, like handwriting and other important achievements. 4. Puzzles helpful for hand-eye coordination of the children. 5. Puzzles provide the skill of effective problem solving is a valuable and important one. 6. Puzzles helping to improving the memory power of the children. 7. Puzzles helping the creative and critical thinking of the children.
PUZZLES
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12 12 4 7 9 1 4
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7 11 13 17 ? ? 25 36 49 64 What number replaces the question mark 5.
What number replaces the question mark
6. Find the number in the question mark in the following figure. 3 5 13 22 8 ?
7. 9 1 5 4 8 3 2 ? 7
What number replaces the question mark. 7 3 4 2 9 3 2 8 ?