Brain Teasers: Book 1 - Ages 7-8 by Teacher Superstore

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Brain teasers (Book 1) First published by ThinkShop Thinking Resources Ltd. www.thinks.co.nz Reprinted under licence by R.I.C. Publications® 2008 Copyright© Jean Edwards 2006 ISBN 978-1-74126-718-1 RIC–6412

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Additional titles available in this series: Brain teasers (Book 2) Brain teasers (Book 3)

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This series of three books is designed to provide 5–10-minute activities to ‘rev’ up students’ brains and get them into gear for thinking. There is a variety of activities aimed at higher-level thinking.

The activites mainly involve language-oriented critical thinking and include:

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• synthesising rules and creating solutions.

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Try to picture an apple in your mind.

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Try to picture a clock in your mind.

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Then list below all the attributes of a clock which ALL CLOCKS usually have.

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Try to picture a car in your mind.

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Then list below all the attributes of a car which ALL CARS usually have.

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Use this Venn diagram to compare the attributes of these two items. List attributes which they BOTH share in the middle part. Think carefully! Remember to number your answers.

SCORE for original ideas:

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Change the following words, one letter at a time, to make the last word shown. Each step must be a proper word!

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Change the following words, one letter at a time, to make the last word shown. Each step must be a proper word! If you can do it in even fewer steps - well done!

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These exercises are to practise classifying information into groups. Circle the word which does not belong in the set and write it down in the space provided. Then explain why it doesn’t belong.

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satin

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These exercises are to practise classifying information into groups. Circle the word which does not belong in the set and write it down in the space provided. Then explain why it doesn’t belong.

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rowing squash

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These exercises are to practise classifying information into groups. Circle the word which does not belong in the set and write it down in the space provided. Then explain why it doesn’t belong.

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Venn diagrams

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You might not agree with some of these statements as you work through these exercises – but the main point is to learn Venn diagrams, so let’s assume that all of them are true. Use the patterns in the key boxes to shade carefully inside the Venn circles to show:

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(a) Some wild animals have fur (already done for you).

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(a) All apples have pips.

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(b) Some pet animals have fur.

The shaded part shows the wild animals that have fur.

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Next, you need to think carefully about the SIZE of the Date: part you overlap. This gives people information too! Look at the first diagram. Then, draw and shade in carefully inside the Venn circles using the patterns in the key boxes to show:

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(a) Most wild animals have fur. (b) About half of all pet animals have fur.

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(a) Because most of the circle is INSIDE the ‘Animals with fur’ part, this means that MOST wild animals have fur.

(c) Most oranges have pips and a few don’t. This time, think hard how to show that nearly all oranges have pips and that only a few types don’t.

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(b) About half of all trees are deciduous (lose their leaves); the other half are evergreen.

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Venn diagrams

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Using these attributes: parents, women, tall use the patterns in the key boxes to shade carefully inside the Venn circles to show:

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(a) All mothers. (HINT: draw a line first)

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(b) All tall parents.

(a) Men who are fathers (parents).

(b) Men who are not fathers. (c) A FEW young adults are parents.

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Using these attributes: hot, green, foods, use the patterns in the key boxes to shade carefully inside the Venn circles to show:

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A challenge for you! Where would you put a little circle for:

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(b) Carrots just out of the pot?

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Some of these are tricky! Look at the underlined word. All of the other words except one belong in the set.

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Copy the word neatly on the answer line, or in your book. Give your reason for your choice!

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Thinking: Vocabulary Thinking with analogies

Best pair

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Look at the underlined word. Then find the best word from the other choices that goes with it to make a pair. Copy the word neatly on the answer line, or in your book.

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Examples: cup and saucer; bread and butter

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Look at the underlined word. Then find the best word from the other choices that goes with it to make a pair.

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Is used for

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Look at the underlined word. Then find the best word from the other choices that shows the opposite. Copy the word neatly on the answer line, or in your book.

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spotting problems

THINK OUTSIDE THE SQUARE

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Outside the shop

Your aim: To use creative and analytical thinking, by looking at a situation from different angles in order to find possible alternative or underlying problems.

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11. There’s been a riot outside and he was hit on the head.

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Outside the shop Your aim: To use creative and analytical thinking by looking at a situation from different angles in order to find possible alternative or underlying problems.

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AIM: To use analytical and creative thinking to find underlying problems relating to one overall problem. TASK

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Late with homework

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2. VOTE in your group with a show of hands for problems with late homework that each of you personally has experienced. Enter the score in the boxes on the right of each underlying problem.

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Put-downs

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Brother or sister annoying you? #

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Brother or sister annoying you? #

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FORMING CRITERIA

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‘WOW – thanks – the PERFECT GIFT!’

Here’s your chance to practise using criteria in real life. You need to make up criteria for people to use before they choose you a present. Showing them this list might even help them to recognise that there are other alternatives too!

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Hint: work through the alphabet!

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BRAIN BUSTER

Your product:

Shoes with velcro™ soles (and no, realistically, people can’t walk up walls with them) Your task:

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(b) Give them a couple of facts to get them interested in reading further.

(d) Tell them why they NEED this product, and where they can get it.

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Clothes that dissolve in water Your task:

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Design a way of getting people on and off buses without the buses having to stop.

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A. snake – all the rest are mammals

camel – rest need to eat regularly

whale – rest live on land

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ANIMALS WITH FUR

apple – rest are generally processed

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anorak – rest don’t keep out wind

blouse – rest are unisex

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A. mercury – rest are solid

steel – rest are raw (not composites/compounds) gold – rest rust/tarnish

B. peach – rest have seeds (not pit)

C. water – rest are solids toothpaste – rest are non-specific for cleaning

towel – rest don’t remove water

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brain – rest can be transplanted

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water – rest are solids

C. chainsaw – rest are fuel-less (powered by humans)

hammer – rest are for cutting/slicing

D. slimy – rest are textures

bitter – rest begin with ‘s’

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odd one out pages 29–30

Accept any other reasonable answer

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1. table (rest are all alive) 2. tree (rest are all fruit) 3. ear (rest all belong on your hand) 4. truck (rest are all for drawing/ writing)

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5. apple (rest are all vegetables)

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