Description
Crossgroups is a slight evolution of Box of Belonging. Don’t worry, you don’t need to have played that puzzle to understand this one.
Box of Belonging simply asked you to figure out the secret groups inside a list of images. You had to realize, for example, that 3 of the images were animals and 3 of them were furniture. A simple Grouping exercise for kids!
This puzzle takes it slightly further by placing those groups on a grid. Each row/column contains one of the groups you think you discovered. But rows and columns cross over, of course. And when they do … that square needs something that belongs to both groups.
And so you get practice doing this skill twice. Figure out the general groups, then figure out the two or three things that belong to multiple groups at once and should be at those crossroads squares.
As usual, this starts really simple. Tiny puzzles with only a few images to place. Then it scales up, and a few rules twists are added for even more excitement, until you’ve become a grouping master without realizing it.
You can play this game physically, by cutting out the unique images at each puzzle and placing them on the puzzle. You can also play by simply drawing the images you see into the spaces yourself. As long as you can somewhat recognize which of the images it’s supposed to be, it’s fine ;)
The final puzzles show you how much you’ve learned by solving these, as well as give a glimpse at what comes next by creating Crossgroups puzzles with numbers or letters. (Which is very very close to actual Crosswords puzzles, of course.)
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Product Contents
- Front Page explaining the puzzle (text + images + example)
- 25 Crossgroups Puzzles
- Answer Sheet
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Age | 3 |
| Categories | grouping, association |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Player Count | 1 |
| Subject | mathematics |
| Textless | true |
Subject: Mathematics
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Mathematics subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches Mathematics from first principles to calculus. Level 1 explores the basic skills needed before you do any counting or see any numbers (such as grouping and comparing objects). Level 2(+) can then introduce numbers, counting, addition, multiplication, and more.
Faction: Puzzlepages
This resource is part of the Puzzlepages Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.
For example,
Charm: Educational Puzzle
This product is part of the Educational Puzzle charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
Educational Puzzles are logic puzzles meant to build and strengthen specific skills. They are physical puzzles that must be played with pen and paper or by moving physical pieces.
Famous examples of such puzzles are Sudokus or Crosswords, but our resources show you can take it much further.
Spell: My First Groups
This resource is part of the My First Groups topic (or "spell").
Earlier topics taught you to compare objects and check if they match or not. This allows you to GROUP matching things together! This is the final step towards counting (in the next level). Because, well, counting is nothing more than adding things to the same ‘group’, and then attaching a number to that.
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