Lesson 3

Lesson 3: Puzzles

Focus

Have you ever noticed how two people can be playing the same game but have completely different strategies? Understanding strategy can help to improve your success with one-player games and puzzles.

You are often faced with problem solving in your life; developing and evaluating strategies for how to meet your goals is a necessary skill. Playing games or simulations are an opportunity to think about and practise using strategies. In the previous lessons, you evaluated information to help make decisions about businesses and vehicles. The steps to help you make your decision are part of the strategy in making those financial decisions. The skills used to understand strategy in puzzles and games are similar.

In this lesson you will learn and practise strategies for solving puzzles and logic games.

Lesson Outcomes

At the end of this lesson you will be able to

• solve puzzles and logic games, and explain the strategy used
• identify errors in solutions to puzzles and logic games

Lesson Question

You will investigate the following question:

• How can you use problem-solving strategies to solve puzzles and logic games?

Assessment

Your assessment may be based on a combination of the following tasks:

• completion of the Lesson 3 Assignment (Download the Lesson 3 Assignment and save it in your course folder now.)
  
• course folder submissions from Try This and Share activities
  
• additions to Glossary Terms
• work under Project Connection