1. Ice-breaker: odd one out exercise. Try this question from a SATs paper:
Which of the following is the odd one out?
house cave tractor stable tent
2. Making your own odd one out: create a verbal odd one out exercise with 4 words (of which one doesn't fit), then a version with 5 words, then a version with 6. If you had an odd one out exercise with 20 words of which one didn't fit, could you guarantee an indisputably correct answer?
3. Logic: patterns, persistence, foundations and frontiers.
A couple of quotes from Einstein are interesting in relation to this:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited"
"If people only talked about things they really understood the world would be a very quiet place"
4. Logic games. You will notice that of the sprqs values, persistence features highly in these logical games!
Safara rush hour
Mastermind
Sudoku
Einstein's challenge (see above)
5. Plenary: What skills are you using to play these games? Try to break down your description of what goes on in your head into the smallest steps you can.
How might you use these steps in school subjects (all of them - even the less obviously logical ones)?
How might you tackle Einstein's challenge?
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