Lettering Logic
This activity challenges students to find the “logic” or rule behind a pricing scheme for wooden letters when given a number of examples. In order to do this, students need to look carefully at the letters and the related costs and try to uncover the pricing logic used and then apply it to a new name and their own last names. The “challenge” name was deliberately chosen to honor Martin Gardner—one of the key figures in recreational mathematics from the 1950's on. Get Puzzle (228k pdf; Requires Adobe Reader) |
