These puzzles have become very popular in the last few years and even though numbers are involved there is no math required to solve them. I thought the article was interesting because it shows that you can use different games and puzzles that will potentially use math problems but not necessarily use math to solve the problem. It also brings up many math related questions like; how many sudoku puzzles can be constructed? What is the minimal number of starting clues that will yield one unique solution? It also brings up the issue of if the puzzle used order 3, there are only 12 solution. How many would there be for order 4 or order 9 puzzles??
If you would like to try one out you can go to the web site and try ones that have different levels of difficulty!
The object is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. What could be simpler?
Here is another article I think would be helpful for teachers to understand how to use wikispace . There are tutorials that walk you thorough and also it has articles on the page that could be useful
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr093.shtml
Here is an article about Acceptable Use Policy I thought it was helpful because it is short and explains theing pretty good. It sets it up in smaller categories and makes it a little less to digest but you still understaad what it is talking about.
Yes a concise article about AUP's. Do you think Policy 311 is adequate as an AUP based on this article?
Sandra
Here is an article that I found interesting;
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Sudoku-sciam-06.pdf
These puzzles have become very popular in the last few years and even though numbers are involved there is no math required to solve them. I thought the article was interesting because it shows that you can use different games and puzzles that will potentially use math problems but not necessarily use math to solve the problem. It also brings up many math related questions like; how many sudoku puzzles can be constructed? What is the minimal number of starting clues that will yield one unique solution? It also brings up the issue of if the puzzle used order 3, there are only 12 solution. How many would there be for order 4 or order 9 puzzles??
If you would like to try one out you can go to the web site and try ones that have different levels of difficulty!
http://www.websudoku.com/?select=1&level=2
But how do I do it?
The object is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. What could be simpler?http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Articles+and+Resources
Here is another article I think would be helpful for teachers to understand how to use wikispace . There are tutorials that walk you thorough and also it has articles on the page that could be useful
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr093.shtml
Here is an article about Acceptable Use Policy I thought it was helpful because it is short and explains theing pretty good. It sets it up in smaller categories and makes it a little less to digest but you still understaad what it is talking about.
Yes a concise article about AUP's. Do you think Policy 311 is adequate as an AUP based on this article?
Sandra