About This Lesson
The words slide, flip, turn are used to describe moving a geometric shape without changing its shape. The children will move the puzzle pieces in these three ways to solve the puzzles they create. They can use this special vocabulary to give specific hints about how to solve the puzzles. In this lesson, children think about what makes a puzzle challenging when they design one for a classmate to solve. Then in solving another classmate’s puzzle, they work out strategies for solving this type of puzzle