1. Module 2: Problem Solving: Eliminate possibilities Matrix logic

2. Content Learning Targets
Participants will solve problems using:
Matrix logic
Elimination of possibilities
Participants will Justify their solutions to problems

3. Language Learning Targets
Participants will define:
Matrix
Matrix logic

4. Problem: High School Math Department Master Schedule
Generate a schedule that balances the opportunities for given courses as much as possible across the schedule by assigning appropriate courses to teachers qualified to teach them as well as meeting the scheduling needs for the teachers’ other assignments in the building.

5. Problem solving and Sudoku
A number puzzle on a 9 by 9 grid divided into nine 3 by 3 boxes with several numbers given. The object is to place the numbers from 1 to 9 in empty squares. The restriction is that you must have the numbers 1 to 9 in every row, every column and every 3 by 3 box (no duplicate numbers)

7. The Party

8. The Party
Last weekend, the
Carson’s invited the
O’Tooles, Levines,
Jacksons, Martins, and
Smiths to a party

9. Husbands names are:
Elmer, John, David, Charles, and Stewart.

10. Wives names are:
Mary, Hilda, Madalene, Jessica, and Marlene.

11. Task:
From the 6 clues given, try to determine not only the first and last names of each guest, but the order of their arrival at the party.

12. Clue 1
When Marlene arrived,
her brother David was
already there talking to
Elmer Smith and the
O’Tooles.

13. Clue 2
The Jacksons arrived
after the Levines but
before Jessica

14. Clue 3
No person at the
party has first and last
names beginning with
the same letter.

15. Clue 4
Neither Hilda nor
Mrs. Martin is married
to David

16. Clue 5
John and Marlene
arrived together after
Elmer and before Mary,
but none of these people
arrived first.

17. Clue 6
Charles is not
married to Jessica