Sudoku Sum

Topics: Starter | Arithmetic | Multiple Intelligences | Puzzles

• Transum,
• Wednesday, March 21, 2007
• "If you are not familiar with Sudoku it is a logic placement puzzle. It is normally presented in a 9×9 grid but the puzzle above is a smaller easier version.
  
  The objective is to fill the grid so that each column, each row, and each of the six 2x3 boxes contains the digits from 1 to 6. Some of the numbers have already been placed ln the grid."
• The Best Maths Class Ever 7cd/m2, King Alfred's College, Oxfordshire
• Wednesday, April 22, 2009
• "We all started filling in the missing numbers. But realised that we could take the total of the numbers away from 21x6 to get the answer."
• ILB, Derbyshire
• Friday, April 09, 2010
• "Brilliant - I love the way that this gets people to use their thinking skills. I will definitely include this in my planning for next term."
• M Phillips, Ferndown
• Thursday, April 22, 2010
• "Hi,
  Great idea.
  Good for deduction skills.
  Would have been better if there had been only one solution. Current model leaves guesswork needed in places."
• Mr Kavanagh's Fifth Class, Cork, Ireland
• Monday, April 22, 2013
• "We enjoyed this puzzle and had a follow on discussion about why people in Cork, Ireland all pronounce the game as Soduko instead of Sodoku."

 

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