Fun with Sudoku Guy (K - Gr 3, LESSON 5 ): Combined column & block.

FOR TEACHERS

• This is a PowerPoint presentation with video and printable activities. It is the 5th of 7 lessons for K-3 showing how to look for a missing a number in a combined column and block.
• I also introduce students to a real 9X9 sudoku grid containing examples of a row, column, and block.
• students are shown how to look for a missing a number in a block of 9 cells and in a combined column and block of 9 cells.
• Go through slides and videos as a class or use it as a math work station (Your choice... I'm pretty entertaining!)
• Individual or group activities and worksheets include puzzles to solve and create.
• Videos to watch as a class or for teacher to form lesson plan
• Teacher guide in presentation notes under the slides.

EXPLORE

• logical thinking, spacial relationships, and number sequenceing
• new vocabulary e.g. row, column, block, cell
• a sudoku grid

RESULTS

• students will solve simple sudoku puzzles with one number missing in a row, column, and block.
• students will become familiar with a real sudoku grid
• students will know how to solve the missing numbers in a combined column and block

DONT FORGET

By the time students reach the 7th resource they will be able to solve simple sudoku puzzles with one number missing in a row, column, and block.