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The Soduko Craze
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 25 Jan 2006, 20:50:44
Anybody hooked on these things? You have to fill the empty squares so that each row, each column, and each smaller 3X3 square has the digits 1 - 9. Very fun if you like number puzzles. I was covering a class today when a kid brought the newspaper in to me. I went for the soduko puzzle but didn't have a pencil. So I went over to the podium at the front of the room and stood there working on the puzzle. All the kids in the room stopped talking and were looking at me. I said, "what?" Then I figured out they thought I was writing something bad about them, so I said, "hey, I'm just doing the soduko puzzle" and they all got happy again. One girl said, "oh, lemme do that!" I said, "no, I'm doing it!"
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Re: The Soduko Craze
by turmoil » Wed 25 Jan 2006, 20:57:00
sweet...i love these things... 
theres a program you can buy to do it on your computer. it's 15 smackers...i didn't buy a license for it but i downloaded the program for 30 days for free.
www.sudoku.com
theres a program you can buy to do it on your computer. it's 15 smackers...i didn't buy a license for it but i downloaded the program for 30 days for free.
www.sudoku.com
"If you are a real seeker after truth, it's necessary that at least once in your life you doubt all things as far as possible"-Rene Descartes
"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth"-Sherlock Holmes
"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth"-Sherlock Holmes
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Re: The Soduko Craze
by AmericanEmpire » Wed 25 Jan 2006, 21:11:33
Hey do you inform your students about how they don't have a future cause we wasted all the resources are heading back to the stone age?
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Re: The Soduko Craze
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 25 Jan 2006, 21:25:21
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AmericanEmpire', 'H')ey do you inform your students about how they don't have a future cause we wasted all the resources are heading back to the stone age?
I do, in fact, quite often. But I don't lay it out as a "stone age" scenario. One time I drew the famous bell curve on the board and told them what it was and one girl said instantly, "you're lying!" Usually I just tell it to a few kids at a time. I'm sure that alot of conversations have gone on in kids homes about what the sub said at school. One thing I can say is that I get very little incredulity from kids. It's the adults who seem to dismiss it. Generally I lay it out as a "looks like we're going to need electric cars pretty soon" scenario. I never present a "doomer" view, just a "we've got problems ahead" view.-
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Re: The Soduko Craze
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 25 Jan 2006, 21:36:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('turmoil', 's')weet...i love these things... theres a program you can buy to do it on your computer. it's 15 smackers...i didn't buy a license for it but i downloaded the program for 30 days for free.
www.sudoku.com
I do the ones in the newspaper, of course, and yeah, they're alot of fun. Have you seen the 16X16 ones that use 1-9, A-G? Man those look hard to do. Haven't tried one, myself, that big. I do have other things to do besides spending 20 hours trying to do a 16X16 soduko puzzle. theres a program you can buy to do it on your computer. it's 15 smackers...i didn't buy a license for it but i downloaded the program for 30 days for free.www.sudoku.com
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Re: The Soduko Craze
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 25 Jan 2006, 23:03:23
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 't')hey all got happy again
BTW, lately it seems like I've been seeing almost exclusively happy kids. Of course, I know where not to go and what assignments not to take for the most part, but it seems to me that these American kids are by and large very happy kids. Well adjusted, enjoying their adolescence. Little do they know about the nasty turn life is about to take. Today I saw a boy and a girl doing a homemade ouiji board. I told them, "you know, sometimes when teenagers do ouiji boards they cultivate demons and become possessed!" The boy ripped the board up immediately. heh heh. I said, "yeah, mostly 13 year old girls get possessed, or so I read. Then their heads start spinning around!" (that's irony, schwein) I like my job and I like kids. Too bad the good times are coming to an end. They watched a video about the Roaring Twenties. I told them how it also came to a bad end and asked them, "do you suppose it could happen again?"-
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