Solutions: Sequence Puzzlers
Sequence Puzzlers had five lists of letters representing common sequences
in which
only the first letter of each item was given. Students were challenged to determine
what the letters represented and fill in the missing letters.
1. S, M, T, W, T, F, S . (days of the week).
2. O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, N, T, ....(the counting numbers)
3. J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O, N, D. (months of the year)
4. M, V, E, M, J, S, U, N, P. (planets in the solar system)
5. F, S, T, F, F, S, S, E, N, T, ....(ordinal numbers: first, second, ...)