Short Activities and Puzzles

Renert School, Sep 20, 2019

Table of Contents

  1. Match Puzzles
    1. Chinese Match Puzzles 1 (8 puzzles)
    2. Chinese Match Puzzles 2 (7 puzzles)
    3. Matches 100
    4. Magic Matches
    5. 30 Matches
  2. Can you make 24?
    1. Math24 (with solution)
  3. Chocolate Paradox
    1. Chocolate Bar Paradox
  4. Lights out game
    1. Copy of Lights Out Game - with target patterns
  5. Tower of Hanoi
    1. Copy of Tower of Hanoi
  6. All sort of puzzles...
    1. Copy of π Day Puzzle
    2. Can you fit it?
    3. Can you fit the four pieces into the square?
    4. Copy of GeoGebra Pentominoes
    5. Copy of Deci-Blocks
    6. Dissections
    7. Copy of Tetrominos
    8. Brazilian Flag
    9. Play first, conjecture after!
    10. Copy of 5-Piece Puzzle
    11. Copy of Square Puzzle
  7. Truchet
    1. Truchet 3x3
    2. Octagon Truchet
    3. Pavages de Truchet

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Match Puzzles

  • 1. Chinese Match Puzzles 1 (8 puzzles)
  • 2. Chinese Match Puzzles 2 (7 puzzles)
  • 3. Matches 100
  • 4. Magic Matches
  • 5. 30 Matches

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Chinese Match Puzzles 1 (8 puzzles)

Drag the matchstick to translate a match, and drag its red head to rotate it about the other end.
Try also [b]Chinese Match Puzzles 2[/b] at http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m991 .
– Renert School, Anthony OR 柯志明

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Can you make 24?

  • 1. Math24 (with solution)

2.1.

Math24 (with solution)

Thank you to [url=https://www.geogebra.org/u/orchiming]Anthony OR 柯志明[/url] for this activity
– Renert School, Anthony OR 柯志明

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Chocolate Paradox

  • 1. Chocolate Bar Paradox

3.1.

Chocolate Bar Paradox

Watch the following video, then use the applet to see how the extra piece is obtained.
Thank you to [url=https://www.geogebra.org/u/orchiming]Anthony OR 柯志明[/url] for this lovely activity
– Renert School, Anthony OR 柯志明

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Lights out game

  • 1. Copy of Lights Out Game - with target patterns

4.1.

Copy of Lights Out Game - with target patterns

Click a cell, and it will change from 'off' to 'on', and back again. [br][br]Easy! But clicking a cell also changes the cells above, below, to the left, and to the right.[br][br]Can you find out how to create the twelve target patterns?
If you'd like to play with the board without worrying about the target patterns, [url=http://www.geogebratube.org/material/show/id/1256]you can[/url].
– Renert School, Jon Ingram

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Tower of Hanoi

  • 1. Copy of Tower of Hanoi

5.1.

Copy of Tower of Hanoi

Activity for 1.1.
– Troy Nezki, Renert School, Emily Stroud

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All sort of puzzles...

  • 1. Copy of π Day Puzzle
  • 2. Can you fit it?
  • 3. Can you fit the four pieces into the square?
  • 4. Copy of GeoGebra Pentominoes
  • 5. Copy of Deci-Blocks
  • 6. Dissections
  • 7. Copy of Tetrominos
  • 8. Brazilian Flag
  • 9. Play first, conjecture after!
  • 10. Copy of 5-Piece Puzzle
  • 11. Copy of Square Puzzle

6.1.

Copy of π Day Puzzle

Acknowledgement: Adapted from the applet "[b][url=https://ggbm.at/P7JFxuft]Puzzle del pi greco[/url][/b]" by [url=https://www.geogebra.org/leucotea]leucotea[/url].
– Renert School, Anthony OR 柯志明, leucotea

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Truchet

  • 1. Truchet 3x3
  • 2. Octagon Truchet
  • 3. Pavages de Truchet

7.1.

Truchet 3x3

Thank you Diego Lieban for this activity!
Click on the center of each square to flip it and on the corners to rotate it.
source: [url=http://xahlee.info/math/Truchet_tiles.html]http://xahlee.info/math/Truchet_tiles.html[/url][br]accessed in 03.11.2018.
– Renert School, Diego Lieban

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