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Logic and Sets

This SMILE resource contains four packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of logic and sets, from simple sorting activities to solving logic puzzles.

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These 50 puzzles on blackline masters give students clues about an unknown number or object and challenge them to guess the answer using the fewest clues possible (up to 10 clues allowed). Solution suggestions and answers are included.

Logic Puzzles - 1 - Birthday Presents

In this logic puzzle students have to use the information given in a story about four siblings to work out the days of the week their birthdays are on and what presents they received.

Once the students have read the story they have to extract the relevant information. They are then encouraged to enter into a...

Logic Puzzles - 2 - A grand day out

In this logic puzzle students have to use the information given in a story about the individual days out of four work colleagues to determine where they went, what they did and who they went with.

Once the students have read the story they have to extract the relevant information. They are then encouraged to...

Logic Puzzles - 3 - Going Shopping

In this logic puzzle students have to use the information given in a story about four friends who meet up in the city centre to go shopping. The challenge is to determine which area of the city each friend lives in, what they purchased, and who they gave their purchase to.

Once the students have read the...

Logic Starters

This series of logic puzzles require students to consider the information given, represent the information given and to think logically in order to solve the problems.

Here Kitty Kitty asks students to match which of Amelia's friends receive which kitten.

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Logical Number Sequences Activity

Combining maths and computational thinking, this Barefoot Computing activity for upper primary uses linear number sequences to introduce algorithms in computing. Children work collaboratively to apply logical thinking and pattern recognition - key concepts used across the Barefoot Computing project. While using...

Logical Reasoning Activity

This activity combines computing and maths to look at algorithms. Children are challenged to solve missing number problems in number sequences, using logical reasoning. Additional challenges are then presented, and children are asked to share not just the answer, but the approach they took to solving the problem...