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TED-Ed

The Famously Difficult Green-Eyed Logic Puzzle

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Ready to introduce the study of logic with what has been called "the hardest logic puzzle in the world"? What better way than with a TED-Ed video! This video describes the famous green-eyed-prisoners-on-an-island riddle by first posing...
Instructional Video4:53
TED-Ed

Can You Solve the Three Gods Riddle?

For Students 7th - 12th
The Three Gods Riddle has been called the "hardest logic puzzle ever." Introduce viewers to the problem with a video that challenges scholars to find the solution.
Instructional Video3:24
TED-Ed

Can You Solve the Jail Break Riddle?

For Students 6th - 12th
How can you accurately measure 45 seconds with two 60-second fuses and a lighter? A video takes learners through a logic puzzle that helps a bank robber break out of jail before the electric fence comes on.
Instructional Video4:52
Physics Girl

Can You Solve the Boat Puzzle?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Sometimes in physics, the logic is a little illogical. A video presentation shows how to use extreme cases to apply logic to physics stumpers. The examples pertain to displacement situations, but scholars can apply the concept to all...
Instructional Video4:18
TED-Ed

Can You Solve the River Crossing Riddle?

For Students 6th - 8th
Getting three wildebeest across a river should be no problem— but what happens when you add three lions to the mix? Watch a video that features a classic river-crossing puzzle with a crocodile twist. Viewers listen as the narrator...
Instructional Video4:34
TED-Ed

Can You Solve the Counterfeit Coin Riddle?

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Math enthusiasts and riddle gurus are sure to love a mind-bending puzzle involving a king, a scale, and a counterfeit coin. Middle and high schoolers work through a video that describes a mathematician's challenge to find a false coin in...
Instructional Video12:32
Crash Course

The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How did early scientists arrive at the notion that everything was made of atoms? Meet the Presocratics during the second installment in an engaging History of Science series. Viewers discover how these pioneers developed a model for...
Instructional Video4:21
TED-Ed

Everything Changed When the Fire Crystal Got Stolen

For Students 6th - 12th
Viewers of a short video use the Proof by Contradiction technique; to determine which apprentice monk swallowed which crystal the group attempted to steal from the Sacred Crystal Temple.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Puzzle of Grue

For Students 10th - 12th
In this video, Sinan Dogramaci (The University of Texas at Austin) explains the puzzle of grue. He discusses how this puzzle undercut the attempt to formally develop inductive logic, the logic of probabilistic support.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Forehead Numbers Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Video sets up and solves the following brain teaser: Three people with infallible logic are in a room together. Each has a number painted on their forehead. The numbers are unique, greater than zero, and one number is the sum of the...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Blossoms: The Towers of Hanoi: Experiential Recursive Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After viewing video components, students use manipulatives to work with the famous Towers of Hanoi problem. The goal is for learners to begin to understand recursive logic and thinking, relevant to computer scientists, mathematicians,...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Alien Abduction Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Saving Earth from becoming a mushroom farm.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Liar Truthteller Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explains how to solve a brain teaser involving two doors, with treasure behind one of the doors. Two people guard the doors. The first is honest and always tells the truth. The second lies and never tells the truth. What question,...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Alien Abduction Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explains how to solve a brain teaser involving ten people who have been abducted by aliens. The people are arranged single-file, facing the same direction. Each person is wearing either a purple or green hat. No one can see the...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Toggler Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explaining how to solve a brain teaser involving five people. Four of the people are togglers--they alternate between lying and telling the truth--and the fifth person always tells the truth. The goal of the teaser is to figure out...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Blue Forehead Room

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explains the following brain teaser: One-hundred perfect logicians are blindfolded and each has their forehead painted blue. They all enter a room with the lights off, sit in a circle, and the lights are turned on. Each logician...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Light Bulb Switching Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explains how to solve the following brain teaser: One hundred light bulbs are arranged in a row. Each light bulb can be either on or off. On the first pass of the row, each bulb is switched on. On the second pass, every other bulb...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: 3 D Path Counting Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explains how to solve the following brain teaser: Starting in the upper left rear block of a 3x3 cube, how many different ways are there to get to the bottom right front block of the cube, with movement restricted to moving to the...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Blue Forehead Room Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explains the solution to the following brain teaser: One-hundred perfect logicians are blindfolded and each has their forehead painted blue. They all enter a room with the lights off, sit in a circle, and the lights are turned on....
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Path Counting Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 10th
Video explains how to solve the following brain teaser: Starting in the upper left hand corner of a 6x6 grid, how many different ways are there to get to the bottom right corner of the grid, with movement restricted to moving to the...

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