KenKen Activity Masters from the New York Times Teach Your Students Numerical Reasoning

NYTimes KenKen graphic

Here are twelve ready-to-hand-out masters you can use to teach your students numerical and logical reasoning skills while they solve these intriguing puzzles. Students love these puzzles, view them as games, and enjoy them tremendously. Classroom management problems are almost nonexistent; one of the only issues is that some students want to keep working on the puzzles rather than doing “regular math”. But that’s a great problem to have.

The puzzles are from the New York Times KenKen site. I made a screen capture using SnagIt, pasted them into MS Word using text boxes, and formatted them so three fit nicely on a page. They are great for introducing students to the world of KenKen. Students can then graduate to the 6×6 puzzles found online.

I’ve left the download files as a Word document so you can modify it to fit your needs. Here’s the file:

kenken-puzzles-4×4-from-nytimes

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