by Dave Youngs
This month's Puzzle Corner activity challenges students to rearrange the nine pieces of a paper egg to produce a number of different shapes resembling birds. Doing this will exercise students' spatial visualization abilities while building their problem-problem solving persistence. Hatching the Egg is patterned after the "Magic Egg" puzzle that appears in the Pieter van Delft and Jack Bottermans book, Creative Puzzles of the World (Key Curriculum Press. Berkeley, CA. 1993).
Due to the need of good quality print-outs, this month's puzzle is being provided as a PDF file. To make use of this file, you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader version 4.x or later. If you do not have this software, it may be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.com/
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