![]() Since I will most likely be laminating the puzzles and putting them in plastic file folders (I’m obsessed with these for my learning stations to be organized!!), I decided I would need a way for students to record their answers! I ended up using the blank 9 puzzles option on the Sudoku website but adding the text “NAME” on the top on “Puzzle Number” under each of the blank puzzles. I also bolded the lines for the individual “boxes” within the puzzle because I found it difficult to keep track of when all the lines looked the same! It is CRUCIAL that you write the puzzle numbers on the back BEFORE you cut them up – that way it is easy to reference the puzzles to the answer sheets – I left those whole, I didn’t cut those sheet up. The actual puzzles for students to solve I copied onto different colors (Easy = green, Medium = pink, Hard = blue), wrote the puzzle numbers on the back (e.g., “E2” was Easy puzzle number 2), the cut all of the puzzles out. I ended up printing a bunch of these in Easy, Medium, and Hard – then labeling each of the puzzles and their corresponding answers. Some numbers are already filled and the blank squares are to be filled by kids while. They need to fill each row, column and square box with numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. This 4x4 grid ranging from 1 - 4 is a medium level and easy to solve for kids. ![]() That’s when I stumbled upon this Sudoku site that lets you set up 6 x 6 puzzles (instead of 9 x 9) in different difficulties, or mixed difficulties – with the SOLUTIONS! Printable Sudoku Puzzles come with different levels of difficulty and variations with number of grids. And I realized most sites are either kinda hinky or have puzzles that would be difficult to get into right away for students who have never tried sudoku before. I am thinking of including sudoku puzzles in my “Early Finishers” notebooks or activity bins ( I haven’t decided…individualized notebook/binders for the students or just an area in the classroom with activities they can choose from?!) so I set out to find sudoku. ![]() I did NOT like them – I was trying to figure out why there was stupid puzzle with numbers and what I was supposed to do with them… then I had the infamous ah-ha lightbulb moment and fell in love. The first time I saw a sudoku puzzle was when my grandparents bought a book of them for me. ![]()
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