Curated OER
House and Holmes: A Guide to Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Test your pupils' reasoning skills with several activities and a quick mystery to solve. Learners watch and analyze a few video clips that demonstrate reasoning in action, practice deduction with an interactive and collaborative...
Scouts
The Deadly Picnic: A Lab on Deductive Reasoning
Whodunnit? Find out who killed Mr. Brooks through a logical examination of evidence. Class members fill out a couple of data tables to help them pin down the suspect. After they've figured out just who the culprit is, pupils compose...
Beauty and Joy of Computing
Unsolvable and Undecidable Problems
Try as you might, some functions just cannot be computed. The lab introduces the class to the possibility of unsolvable problems. The fourth lesson in a series of seven begins with a logic problem, then progresses to looking at functions...
TES Global
Tes: Printed Quiz on 11: Plus Verbal Reasoning Hidden Word
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides several word puzzles for students. When given sets of phrases, students will find four-letter words hidden within each set.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Four Triangles Puzzle
Sharpen your logic and and pattern recognition skills with this four triangles puzzle. The solution is available to check your work.
Disfruta Las Matematicas
Disfruta Las Matematicas: Puzzles De Logica
This site contains many logic puzzles. It could be used as fun supplementary materials. Solutions are also provided.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Seven Pots of Plants
On this one page website sharpen your logic skills while working on this flower pot labels mix up challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sudoku Puzzles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson concerns Sudoku puzzles and Latin squares, as well as their relationships and differences. Students learn about both of these puzzles, and hopefully become hooked in the logic...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Octa Space
At this one page web site see if you can solve this puzzle involving the edges of an octahedron. You will definitely need to use your problem solving and spatial reasoning skills for this!
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Clever Santa
Help Santa figure out how many puzzles and books to leave for the children of this family. Once you figure it out you can check the solution.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Truth or Dare
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson present a series of five logic puzzles, most of which include the classic "liars and truth-tellers" format. On the teacher's page, sample leading questions are presented to help...
Other
Petals Around the Rose
Logic puzzle involving dice. A person must figure out a number based on which dice are rolled.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Mqed: The Hand and the Key
The learning resource explores the mathematical riddles embedded in the walls of a palace.