#1 Dan is looking out at How many holes are in this sea. He sees a boat full shirt? of people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is this possible? Can you solve this fruit math equation? Which tire doesn’t turn when a car turns right? Can you solve the maze below? What common phrase is How is it possible to cut depicted below? a traditional circular cake into 8 equal size pieces, with only 3 cuts? #1 Dan is looking out at How many holes are in this sea. He sees a boat full shirt? of people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is this possible? Everyone on board 8, including the arms, top and was married. bottom. Can you solve this fruit math equation? Which tire doesn’t turn when a car turns right? The spare tire. Apple = 7 Grapes = 12 3 Bananas = 6 1 Banana = 2 1A + 1G + 1B = 21 Can you solve the maze below? What common phrase is How is it possible to cut depicted below? a traditional circular cake into 8 equal size pieces, with only 3 cuts? Slice the cake horizontally once, then cut vertically in fourths. A round of applause. #2 A farmer wants to cross a You are on an island and there are river and take with him a three crates of fruit that have chicken, a caterpillar, and washed up on the shore in front of a head of lettuce. There is you. One crate contains only apples. a canoe that can fit One crate contains only oranges. himself plus either the The third crate contains both apples chicken, the caterpillar, or and oranges. the head of lettuce. If the chicken and the caterpillar Each crate is labeled. One reads are alone on one shore, the "apples", one reads "oranges", and chicken will eat the one reads "apples & oranges". You caterpillar. If the know that ALL of the crates are caterpillar and the head of labeled INCORRECTLY. lettuce are alone on the shore, the caterpillar will If you can only take out and look at eat the head of lettuce. just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates, how can you How can the farmer bring label ALL of the crates correctly? the chicken, the caterpillar, and the head of lettuce across the river? What common phrase is depicted below? R E A D I N G Find seven numbers hidden in the sentences below. The numbers are in word form, like “two” or “four”. Underline them as you find them. Where has the fat worm gone? He was wriggling away from my reel even before I had the hook on it!. If I’ve lost him, I’ll be sorry. This evening I came prepared with reel, line and bait hoping to catch plenty of fish. It’s not often that a worm of ours gets away! Which solid black circle is Which way is the bus below larger? traveling? To the left? Or, to the right? Two mothers took their daughters shopping. Each mother and daughter bought one purse, but when they returned home there were only 3 purses. How could this be? None of the purses were stolen $$$$ or taken back. #2 A farmer wants to cross a You are on an island and there are river and take with him a three crates of fruit that have chicken, a caterpillar, and a washed up on the shore in front of head of lettuce. There is a you. One crate contains only apples. canoe that can fit himself One crate contains only oranges. plus either the chicken, the The third crate contains both apples caterpillar, or the head of and oranges. lettuce. If the chicken and the caterpillar are alone on Each crate is labeled. One reads one shore, the chicken will "apples", one reads "oranges", and eat the caterpillar. If the one reads "apples & oranges". You caterpillar and the head of know that ALL of the crates are lettuce are alone on the labeled INCORRECTLY. shore, the caterpillar will eat the head of lettuce. If you can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from How can the farmer bring just one of the crates, how can you the chicken, the caterpillar, label ALL of the crates correctly? and the head of lettuce Open the crate labeled “Apples & across the river? Oranges”. Since the crate is labeled Take the caterpillar over. incorrectly, if you pull out an apple, it is the Come back. apple crate and if you pull out an orange, it Take the head of lettuce over. is the orange crate. The others can be Come back, bringing the caterpillar too. labeled from there. Take the chicken over, leaving the caterpillar. What common phrase is Come back. depicted below? Take the caterpillar over. R E A D I N G Reading between the lines. Find seven numbers hidden in the sentences below. The numbers are in word form, like “two” or “four”. Underline them as you find them. Where has the fat worm gone? He was wriggling away from my reel even before I had the hook on it!. If I’ve lost him, I’ll be sorry. This evening I came prepared with reel, line and bait hoping to catch plenty of fish. It’s not often that a worm of ours gets away! Which solid black circle is Which way is the bus below larger? traveling? To the left? Or, to the right? To the left…you can’t see the door! Two mothers took their daughters shopping. Each mother and daughter bought one purse, but when they Both are the same size! returned home there were only 3 purses. How could this be? None of the purses were stolen or taken back. There were only 3 women to begin with: •Grandmother (mother) $$$$ •Mother (daughter/mother) •Daugther (daughter) #3 Name three How many full circles are shown consecutive days below? without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday. 1. ____________________ 2. ____________________ 3. ____________________ What common phrase is depicted below? STAND I A black dog with black eyes stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working because of a power failure caused by a recent thunderstorm. A truck with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver of the truck have seen the dog in time? Using six contiguous straight A guitar has six of me, while lines, connect all of the a harp only has four? What sixteen circles shown below. am I? How many F’s are in the following sentence? Five finicky foxes were released after four years of confinement in the finest fox establishment of the world. #3 Name three How many full circles are shown consecutive days below? without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday. 1. ____________________Yesterday 2. ____________________Today Tomorrow 3. ____________________ 5 What common phrase is depicted below? STAND I I understand. A black dog with black eyes stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working because of a power failure caused by a recent thunderstorm. A truck with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver of the truck have seen the dog in time? It was daylight. Using six contiguous straight A guitar has six of me, while lines, connect all of the a harp only has four? What sixteen circles shown below. am I? Letters How many F’s are in the following sentence? Five finicky foxes were released after four years of confinement in the finest fox establishment of the world. 10. Most people say 8 because the word “of” sounds like a “v” and not an “f”. #4 How many rectangles contain What common phrase is the dot below? depicted below? GROUND How many months have 28 days? Can you draw the figure to the right without lifting your writing utensil or overlapping lines more than once? It IS possible. A tangram is a geometric There are 25 red and 37 puzzle that originated in China. white socks in a drawer. How It consists of a square cut into many socks do you need to seven pieces (one parallelogram, take out of the drawer to one square and five triangles). ensure that you have a These pieces can be moved and matching pair? arranged (without overlap) to make other shapes and figures. Can you use tangram pieces to form the swan shown? A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 27th floor of a skyscraper. All of sudden, the window cleaner slips, then falls. He had no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, yet he was unhurt in the accident. How is this possible? #4 How many rectangles contain What common phrase is the dot below? depicted below? GROUND 6 feet underground How many months have 28 days? 16. All squares are rectangles as well. Don’t forget the All of them. smallest and largest squares. Can you draw the figure to the right without lifting your writing utensil or overlapping lines more than once? 3. 5. It IS possible. 1. 4. 7. 6. 2. A tangram is a geometric There are 25 red and 37 puzzle that originated in China. white socks in a drawer. How It consists of a square cut into many socks do you need to seven pieces (one parallelogram, take out of the drawer to one square and five triangles).