Tower Trade

Copy this sheet on construction paper or tagboard. Each student will need to cut apart one set of rectangles for the Tower Trade puzzle.

Boy with Tower

Rectangles

Using your rectangles, build a tower on the left post as in diagram below. The largest rectangle must be on the bottom and the others stacked on top of it, ordered by size with the smallest on top.

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Obtain Base Here (Activity Page Two)

The challenge in this puzzle is to transfer all the rectangles to a different post while following these rules:

  1. Move only one rectangle at a time.
  2. A larger rectangle can never be placed on top of a smaller one.

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