Puzzles for Kids

Science and Mathematics Puzzles for children of age 10 & above

By Miyav Learning

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Puzzles for Kids- For age 10 & above Designed , Compiled and Created by Miyav Learning

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Contents
About Miyav Introduction --4 --5 --6 --7 --7 --8 --8 --9 --9 --10

Maths Puzzles
1. Triangular Puzzle 2. Rabbits & Hens 3. Mule & Donkey 4. Professors Garden 5. Real Estate 6. Equal Square 7. Width of River 8. Match Stick Magic

Science Puzzles
9. Is there any empty space inside water 10. Flower & Paper 11. Weight of Elephant 12. Lifting 80 ton stone 13. Inside the Stone 14. A/C Room built by Termites -11 --12 --12 --13 --14 --14

Miyav Learning
Miyav Learning brings out various educational aids to help children solve practical problems creatively. We brings out activity books, educational games and puzzles books to stimulate curiosity of the children to find their passion in particular trades and pursue them with self motivation. Miyav Learning is founded by Shri. Manikandan, who worked as a Scientist in Indias premier research lab Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai for ten years after graduating from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. When he became father,he got passion in understanding childrens learning process. Soon he quit the job to found Miyav Learning, an organization for fostering creative thinking of children and flourishing them into leaders in every field they choose. Children can logon to www.miyav.in to find various resources, create projects and share with their friends.

Thinking Tools for Creative Kids

Miyav Educational Games

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Introduction
Why do some people solve problems more creatively than others? Are those persons having unique talent than those who tend to think in a more systematic manner? Can we inoculate creative thinking practice among children or it is just one of the intrinsic qualities which cant be developed? Creativity is the act of thinking out of box, connecting the impossible dots during a problem solving process. Many day to day innovations is invented by creative thinking in the field of engineering, medicine, agriculture, commerce, administrations and law. Contrary to the earlier thoughts that creativity is associated with domain of art and music, it is now established that creative thinking is the one key approach, which brings elegant solutions to people working in all field. Researchers proved that creative thinking process is a skill that can be developed even at the early age by systematically exposing them to set of methodologies, like how we teach mathematics. When I started teaching kids, I found that regular text books are more informative and rigidly structured. The content, design and presentation hardly evokes childs interest in refining his concepts. So we, at Miyav Learning, brings out activity books, puzzle sets to evoke the curiosity of children and foster their creative thinking ability. You can know more about our activity book titled Thinking Tools for Kids in our Miyav portal www.miyav.in. This book, puzzle for kids has fourteen puzzles carefully selected from our learning modules and other sources. The maths puzzles are designed as good introduction to expose the concepts in Algebra, geometry. Science puzzles are provided to expose the students to higher concepts of atoms, machines and logical thinking. The answer sheet is given in separately. Let the children try to solve them independently. Later parents/teachers can help with the answers.

S T Manikandan, Chief Scientist, Miyav Learning

Triangular Puzzle

Work out the number that should go in middle of third triangle Clue: You have to do something to the three numbers in the corner of the triangle to get the number in the middle. Once you find the rule, then you have to use the same rule for last triangle

4 12 4 4 2

5 9 1 8

2 ? 9

Rabbits & Hens

On a farm there were some hens and rabbits. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens and rabbit were there? Clue: use algebra

Mule & Donkey

This is a riddle attributed to Euclid from AD 300. A mule and a donkey were walking along laden with sacks of corn. The mule said to the donkey, 'If you gave me one of your sacks, I would be carrying twice as much as you. But if I gave you one, we would both be carrying equal burdens.' How many sacks of corn were they each carrying?

Professors Garden

Prof. Balki bought 10 saplings and gave to his gardener. He asked the gardener to plant in five rows such that each row should have only 4 saplings. The gardener got confused. Solve the puzzle and help the gardener

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wife

Real estate

A landowner died leaving his estate, which unusually was in the shape of a square, to be shared among his wife and four children. His wife was to have the quarter of the estate indicated by the triangle on the plan, while his will decreed that the four children should share the remaining land in such a way that they each had areas identical in both size and shape. Help the children determine their inheritance!

Equal Squares
Given five identical square pieces of card, how can you make one straight cut which will enable you to rearrange all the resulting pieces into one large square?

Width of River
While Dr Singh was walking with her nephew Ram in the country, their way was barred by a wide river. Dr Singh challenged Ram to measure the width of the river without getting wet. Ram protested that he had no instruments but Dr Singh assured him that, with a little thought and some exercise, he would be able to measure the width of the river, in terms of his paces, quite easily. Ram succeeded. Would you have done? Of course there was no bridge!

Match Stick Magic a)

Make four equilateral triangle from just six match sticks. It can be done without breaking any sticks

b)

Surprisingly enough, it is possible to create three squares of equal size from a mere six matchsticks. How?

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Is there any empty space inside water?

If you put table spoon of sugar inside the water, where the sugar goes? Question: Assume that sugar you added is 1 gm of weight and glass has 100 ml of water. Which of the following statements are true A. Volume of water increases after addition of sugar B. Volume remains same C. Weight increases after addition of sugar D. Weight remains same

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What are the common parts present in both the flower and paper?

FLower and Tissue paper contains some common parts. What are they?

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How do you measure the weight of elephant?

Think of methods of finding weight of elephant, assuming that the modern weighing bridge is not available

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80 ton monolithic stone kept 69m above ground

In Tanjavur town in Tamilnadu, Braheswarar temple build by ancient Cholas Kingdom is located. On top of the temple tower, 80 ton monolithic stone is kept. As this temple was constructed 1000 years ago without any help of modern machineries like crane . So how was this possible?

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What is inside the stone?

Are there any moving parts inside this stone? If answer is yes, name them.

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A/C Room built by Termites

Do you know that Termites live in air-conditioned room built by themselves? Temperature inside their nest varies within just one degree, day and night (while the temperatures outside swing from 42 C to 3 C). How is it possible?

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Thinking Tools Book Kit for children of age 7 and above

Thinking Tools for Creative Kids- 7+
Pages: 72 Answer Book:12 ISBN Code: 978-81-922197-0-7 Price: Rs.275

Designed for children of age 7 to 10, this activity book consists of uniquely developed eighteen exercises for fostering independent thinking and creativity. For each exercises, student has to find answers from the picture labels provided in the answer book and stick them into the main book. All exercises are developed based on Creative Frameworks of thinking developed by a scientist.

A must have book for gifted children Each exercise can be developed into a project Created by a scientist through classroom trials Colorful illustration and pictures to evoke childs interest Children develop creativity and confidence

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Thinking Tools Book Kit for children of age 11 & above

Thinking Tools for Creative Kids-11+

Pages: 86 ISBN Code: 978-81-922197-1-4 Price: Rs.157 Designed for children of age 11 and above, this activity book consists of eighteen exercises for fostering creativity and higher order thinking skills. For each exercises, student has to find answers from the picture labels provided in the book and stick them into the main book. All exercises are developed based on Creative Frameworks of thinking developed by a scientist.

Each exercise can be developed into a project Thought provoking questions and puzzles Exercises with space to stick answer labels Exercises designed for higher order creative thinking Children develop creativity and problem solving skills

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puzzles and questions on left side

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