This week was the international mathematics competition in the Netherlands to which 4 million children worldwide participate. The name for this competition is the Kangaroo. On this map you can see what countries participate. For this occasion I thought maths puzzles would be in order. Many, many maths puzzles.
I love thinking puzzles and my children do to. Here are some of the ones we enjoyed.
Elefant spinout is great for automatisation. This is a process wherein the solution is not only mastered by solving the puzzle, but by making it route. This is very important for some children that tend to find a solution easily and try to avoid route. Also this puzzle is a good model for binary maths. The elefants have two positions while solving the puzzle, 0 and 1, or facing the exit or to the side.
