Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to experience touch, or to hold another hand with. Or what about being born without legs? Having no ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand on two feet. Now put both of those scenarios together: no arms and no legs. What would you do? How would that effect your everyday life?
The last in our problem solving series is a website containing over 450 different brain teaser problems. I would suggest going through the listing finding the best problems and create a handout for students to work in groups with. I believe having students go to the website to solve the problems will simply lead to them constantly checking the answers rather than working on the problems.
third in our series of problem solving examples is the Remote Association Test. Students tend to enjoy the linguistic skills needed to solve these problems.
Next in our problem solving segment is picture puzzles. This site contains a PDG file with 26 pages of picture puzzles and the answers. I have not been able to find where on the site just the puzzles are located without the answers included. These pages can be printed and the answers can be eliminated with liquid paper.
Quantagories, sometimes referred to as item equations, are a type of problem which combine words, numbers and equations. For example; the solution to 26 = L of the A is 26 letters of the alphabet.
The cognition unit creates a fantastic opportunity to give your students a chance to work on various problem solving puzzles. I have found psychology students, especially AP Psychology students, seem to love brain teasers, logic problems, etc.
