Problem-Solving:
The Magic Square
Today's
Snack: Make
two pieces of checkerboard bread! Take two different colored pieces of bread,
such as whole-wheat white, and pumpernickel. Cut each into nine pieces - three
vertical slices, cut into three squares. Now remove every other square, and
replace so that instead of two solid-colored pieces of bread, you have two
checkerboards. Add some meat or cheese, and wash down with a half-glass of
white milk and a half-glass of chocolate milk!
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Supplies:
Print out this diagram | Pencil
(with eraser!) | Cover up the answer, below
Place the numbers 1 through 9 in the
squares of this diagram so that no two rows, columns or diagonals add up to the
same number.
(Answer: Top row - 5,2,7; Middle row:
1, 6, 8; Bottom row: 4,3,9)