Friday - Logic Safari


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This book contains deductive reasoning puzzles set in interesting contexts. The child has to read each story to look for clues and use them to find solutions.

Suitable for Primary 1 and 2
Concepts - Logical thinking

This book is available at Amazon.

Thursday - Frog Puzzle


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There are 3 frogs on the right and 3 frogs on the left. Each frog can stand on a lily pad and there is one empty lily pad between them. Try switching their positions. Each frog can only hop to the next empty lily pad or over one frog.

Suitable for all levels
Concepts: Sequential thinking and logical thinking

This app is available at App Store.

Wednesday - Tap Towers


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This is actually the Tower of Hanoi puzzle. Move 3 discs from the left pole to the right pole while following these rules. You can only move one disc at a time. You cannot place a larger disc on top of a smaller disc. The puzzle becomes more challenging as the number of discs increases.

Suitable for all levels
Concept - Sequential thinking and patterns

This app is available at App Store.

Tuesday - Water Jug


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How do you use 2 jugs, a 3-litre jug and a 5-litre jug, to measure 4 litres of water? This app contains 35 water jug puzzles at various levels of difficulties to sharpen your mathematical thinking.

Suitable for all levels
Concept - Logical thinking

This app is available at app store.

Monday - True Lies


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A donkey is tied to an 8-foot rope, yet it is able to reach a cart of carrots 30 feet away. How is that possible? Interesting puzzles like this can be found in this book which encourages children to use logic to spot the flaws in the problems.

Suitable for all levels
Concept - Logical thinking

This book is available at National Library and Amazon.

Week 4

This week the focus is on logical thinking!
Monday - True Lies
Tuesday - Water Jug
Wednesday - Tap Towers
Thursday - Frog Puzzle
Friday - Logic Safari

Please try out these games and activities with your kids and give me feedback and comments.

Friday - ColorShapes


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The various colours and shapes form a repeated pattern which the player has to repeat several times as fast as possible. There are various levels of difficulties.

Suitable for all levels
Concepts: Patterns, and Shapes

Available on App Store

Thursday - Tangram


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The classic tangram puzzles are available on this app to provide your child with lots of fun on using simple shapes to make different figures.

Suitable for all levels
Concept - Shapes

This game is available at as an app on App Store.

Wednesday - HiQU


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HiQU is a tangram puzzle that has only 4 pieces which can be arranged to form 100 different shapes. It provides endless hours of fun challenge for everyone.

Suitable for all levels
Concept - Shapes

Available at http://www.kydzedu.com/

Tuesday - Origami for kids


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Make magic by transforming a square piece into different shapes and animals.

Suitable for all levels
Concept - Shapes

http://www.origami-fun.com/origami-for-kids.html