| Grade Level | System Requirement | Product Number |
|---|---|---|
| Grades 4-7 | Apple 128K | A310 |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been delighting generations of readers with its own brand of logic. In this learning game, Wonderland’s most memorable citizens lead the kids in your class into their special world of logic and strategy.Promotes the integration of math and language-arts skills.Stresses problem solving through the development of logical strategies. | ||
Introduction
Wonderland Puzzles provides students with an engaging activity that will help them to develop their logical reasoning skills. Students will be challenged as they play one strategy game and four logic games, which can be played together in the program Wonderland or played separately by choosing each from the Game menu.
Wonderland Puzzles is based on the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Carroll was a mathematician with a particular interest in logic and puzzles, and he published several books on these topics. He was very fond of children and often challenged them with puzzles. Given Carroll’s background, it seems appropriate that his book should be the basis for a collection of mathematical logic games.
The games in Wonderland Puzzles are based on scenes from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, providing a connection with literature that can be used to integrate mathematics with the language arts. Students who are curious about the scenes depicted and the details present in the game should be encouraged to read the book, which will shed light on the items and characters they encounter while they play. Since the reading level of the book is rather advanced (seventh- to eighth-grade level), it would be ideal if a teacher could read the book aloud to students. If this is not possible, simplified versions of the book and videotaped movies based on it are also available.
Title: Wonderland Puzzles
Subject: Mathematics
Grade Range: 4-7
Topic: Problem-solving
Required Hardware: Apple II series computer with at least 128K and one disk drive
Management Options: Default game settings can be modified
Classroom Use: Individual student or small group
Learning Objectives:
- to engage students in challenging problem-solving situations
- to practice creating equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication, negative numbers, parentheses, and correct order of operations
- to encourage the analysis of several possible solutions
- to encourage estimation
- to encourage rapid recall of arithmetic facts
- to provide a literature-based scenario, promoting cross-curricular involvement
- to practice using visual reasoning
- to develop problem-solving strategies