Thursday, August 16th, 2017

Use problem-solving strategies to solve simple problems

For this standard, we will be using #2 from:

https://github.com/gSchool/puzzles/tree/master/drills/version-2

Einsteins Riddle

There is a row of five different color houses. Each house is occupied by a man of different nationality. Each man has a different pet, prefers a different drink, and smokes different brand of cigarettes.

• The Brit lives in the Red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The Green house is next to the White house, on the left.
• The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
• The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
• The German smokes Prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house.
• The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who has fish at home?

Polya Problem Solving

• First, I read the question at least 5 times to get a full picture of what is happening.
• Once that was done, I visualized the problem on a paper, going through the clues and eliminating possibilities
• The German in the Green House has the fish, here is a picture of my work: