Contest review
Today we went over the contest from November. It was tough! As usual, most people who took the contest nationally got 0, 1, or 2 of the 5 questions.
I won't list the problems here, because they are proprietary, but I'll categorise them.
The first was one of those rearrangement / calculation problems we talked about the first day. You can blast through it as it is, or you can rearrange it to make your calculations a little faster.
The second problem was a sequence puzzle where some clues are given and then you deduce the order of some objects. More on this below!
The third problem was to figure out a three digit number based on some clues about the digits, including divisibility.
The fourth involved calculating the area of a shape surrounding some other shapes.
The fifth was a cryptarithm. You can find plenty of examples of those at http://www.cryptarithms.com
We'll do more of all of those throughout the year.
Sequencing logic puzzles
This kind of puzzle is really fun. There are lots of these on the LSAT — the standardised test for getting into law school. To practise these, I got some related puzzled from the Mindware game LogicLinks. They have samples from the four leveled books:
We worked through these until we ran out of time!
