Posted in Christmas, Problem solving

Christmas Challenge – Day 3

Three rows and columns

Screenshot 2018-12-01 21.16.04

Place the pictures (download here) on the grid so that no pictures that are the same are placed next to each other in any column or row e.g. you cannot have two snowmen in squares next to each other. An activity that encourages children to think logically, check their work and explain their thinking.

Explain how you did it.  How did you start? Have you checked that you have followed Digit Dog’s rule?

Is there more than one way to do it?

IMG_2120
Digit Dog did this.

 

IMG_2121
Calculating Cat did this.

What do you notice? What is the same and what is different about their grids?

Ask children to compare their solutions.

How many different ways can you find to do it?

One thought on “Christmas Challenge – Day 3

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s