Venn Diagrams

Venn diagrams are used in school curricula all the way through college-level courses to categorize, examine, and investigate relationships.

Venn Perplexors, Levels A, B, C, D

by Evelyn B. Christensen

These Venn Perplexor books (from preK to grade 12) use fun sorting activities and story puzzles to get kids familiar with the problem-solving process and challenge their thinking skills. Synopsis of book to go on your page.: For samples pages from each of the four books see Evelyn's website.

--LEVEL C [For grades 6 to 9]--

Great activities for either independent learning or group cooperation. This book has three kinds of puzzles:

*Fun alien-themed puzzles that help students improve their mathematical problem solving by

using Venn diagrams to organize information.

*Puzzles that challenge students to analyze similarities and differences and determine classification categories.

*Introductory logic puzzles that encourage valid, accurate reasoning.

--LEVEL D [For grades 9 and up]--

*Challenging Venn puzzles that use overlapping shapes to help students visualize relationships and organize information.

*Develops critical and logical thinking skills.

*Including the examples, a puzzle for each of the 50 U.S. states!

*An intriguing way to integrate mathematics and interesting geographic facts.

*A fun opportunity to strengthen students' ability to read for detail, analyze information, see relationships, and apply algebraic problem solving. Reviews of book.: Selected comments from Customer Reviews on MindWare's website:

Level C--

Love the thinking involved. Proves you can have fun while learning.

I bought this for my niece, and she enjoyed it. I even caught my brother (her father) having fun with it.

This a great challenging activity I use for my classes. I'm a substitute teacher and when students are bored they come up and get these as work sheets.

Level D--

My son, who teaches AP Statistics is planning to use these sheets for his classes. The day I gave it to him, he dove right in and solved 5 sheets in a row. I took that as a compliment to the challenges and the fun of finding the answers.

I bought this for myself to give my brain a workout in my leisure time or during vacation. I really enjoy them! About the author.: Evelyn Christensen has a Master’s degree in mathematics and a doctoral degree in mathematics education. She has taught at the elementary, middle school, high school, college, and graduate school levels. Most recently she has taught gifted education at the primary level. Evelyn has a passion for creating resources to make learning fun for kids. She has authored 40 educational puzzle books and designed several math games.

About the author:

She lives in Lexington, KY with her husband Ralph and has four grown children. Providing her children with fun learning activities when they were little was the origin of many of her puzzle book ideas.