How about a fun puzzle whose inventor believes in ‘the art of teaching without teaching’? Derived from the Japanese word that means ‘cleverness’, KenKen or KenDoku is a logical puzzle invented by a Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto in the year ’04.
KenKen combines the logic of Sudoku with basic math. You do not require a supercomputer brain to solve a KenKen puzzle. An unsolved 5×5 KenKen puzzle would look like this:
With options to play puzzles in grids of 4×4, 6×6, 8×8, or 9×9, KenKen offers a wide range of difficulty levels for beginners to advanced solvers. Online Math tutors as well as school teachers can look into these puzzles and then introduce these to their students. Online tutoring can be taken to a new level by including KenKen into the curriculum.
“I believe that if you give children good learning materials, they will think and learn and grow on their own” says Miyamoto. The best thing about a KenKen puzzle is that your child would not feel that he is learning Math; KenKen does it all in a fun way.
For learning more about this brain teasing puzzle and downloading FREE puzzles, you can visit the website www.kenken.com
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