1. The ladder on a ship in the harbor had ten rungs, a foot apart. the bottom rung touched the water at low tide. When the tide rose 3 feet, how many of the rungs of ladder were under water?
2. Walking from his house to the store, Cy takes 1 hour and 20 minutes. Returning to hs home at the same speed, it takes 80 minutes. How could this be?
3. A certain pole is 10 feet long. If you sawed it into 5 pieces, each 2 feet long, how many times would you cut it?
4. How many two fathers and two sons divide 21 one dollar bills evenly among themselves, without making change?
Answers 4. They were a grandfather, his son and this son's son making three men. Each would get $7. 3. Four Cuts. 2. Eighty minutes = 1 hour 20 minutes 1. None; the ship rose with the tide
Have a friend select a page in a book, choose a word in any one of the first nine lines and in the first nine words of that line. tell him you can find the word chosen.
Ask him to multiply the number of the page by 2, and then by 5; then to add 20; next add the number of the line, add 5 to that sum, and multiply by 10; finally to add the number of the word in the line, and to give you the result. From the number he gives you subtract 250, in your mind, and you can open the book to the page of the line and show him the word he selected.
Intelligence Quotient(IQ) tests use memory, reasoning and problem solving to assess a person's mental capacity. Alfred Binet was the first to develop IQ test and so it is often referred as Stanford-Binet test. The average score on an IQ test is 100. IQ tests are one measure of a person's intelligence and should be used together with other assessments when making decisions about your child's education. In addition to IQ tests, parents and teachers should consider behavior observations, student work and standardized tests. Here are some sites to undergo online IQ tests for your kids:
In this part we deal with number puzzles. You can quickly find answers to some puzzles & may be take few more minutes to solve the rest. Correct answers given at the end in decreasing order. Some puzzles may have more than one answer but I give only one answer. If you get more than one just give a comment of it which will be viewable to all. 1. Seven Digits Writethe 7 digits from 1 to 7 one after another and connect them with plus and minus signs to get 40. 2. Get 55 Wite the 7 digits from 1 to 7 one after another and connect them with plus & minus to get 55 3. Nine Digits Write the 9 digits from 1 to 9 one after another and connect them with plus and minus signs to get 100 4.All the 10 digits Obtain 100 using all the ten digits. You can use the digits in any order you want. 5. Get one Obtain one using all ten digits 6. Five Twos Obtain 11 using five twos. All the basic mathematical operations can be used. 7. Four Twos Get 111 using four twos 8. Get a Hundred Get a hundred using five ones. 9. Five Threes Obtain 100 using five threes 10. Five Nines Get 10 using five nines
Games do a lot. Let kids play games. It makes them be active, competant, brisky, improve their vocabulary as they play, helps to nourish brain cells. But, it is a MUST dont allow them to watch the monitor or computer screen continously as the moisture in their retina of eyes will dry & eyes become reddish & soon it will yield them to so for spectacles. Just ask them to look on other side especially on greens on every 15 minute interval........ Herewith I share some playstations in web that are trustable & mind worthy. I use these sites for my kids to play with and they are agrd 5 yrs and 4 yrs.
1. ‘Vante Matram’ song was written by Bunkim Chandra Chatterji 2. ‘Yakshagana’ is folk dance of Karnataka 3. Ramagundam has the largets thermal power station of India 4. Kashmir – India’s Switzerland 5. Teak – King of Indian Trees 6. Birth place of Chess – India 7. City of 5 rivers – Punjab 8. Rose city – jaipur 9. Cochin – Queen of Arabian Sea 10. Coimbatore – Manchester of South India 11. Pamban Bridge was constructed by Cesar, a German engineer under British government. It took 2 years to get completed & is 6750ft in length. 12. Andhra Pradesh gives large production of Naphthalene balls. 13. Sadness of Bengal – Damodar river. 14. Highest position in Indian navy - Admiral of the fleet 15. Bihar stands second populest state of India 16. ISRO was born on 1969 Indian Awards 17. Bharat Ratna – Highest civilian award 18. Nehru Award – International Understanding
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