SWAMIswami4kids.com   

IDEAS UNLTD...         home    

 
   

IDEAS UNLTD (IU)  IDEAS UNLTD (IU)   IDEAS UNLTD (IU)   IDEAS UNLTD (IU)   IDEAS UNLTD (IU)   IDEAS UNLTD (IU)   IDEAS UNLTD (IU)


Problem Bol - Dimag Khol

You guys would also be facing the 'falling short of ideas problems like us, sometimes especially when it comes to deciding what gift to buy for a friends birthday? Or what to do with free time? How can I use my favorite pants which ahs now become old? Can I creatively reuse some waste items? What excuses to give for not doing homework? 
Our work on finding solution to this, very often faced, very common problem started with a broken pot, which was once used to store water, but due to leakage, was discarded, from our school store. We've placed this old earthen pot in our dorm. This pot is now called as the 'Ideas Unlimited' melting pot. We are actually using this pot to store and also to generate ideas now.
We use the outside of the IU pot as the 'Problem Bol' area, where any problem can be pasted with a Blu-Tac. And the inside of the pot is our 'Dimag Khol' area, in which we store our solution ideas. 
To contribute to our Problem Bol and Dimag Khol write to swami@swami4kids.com

We are proud to present in this section some problems sent to us by our friend from Gujarat - Amisha.
Amisha is a 13-year-old art lover, who also loves to crack brainteasers. Thanks Amisha, we're sure our friends will crack these ones for you.

[top]

 Wolf, Goat and Cabbage
A man has to take a wolf, a goat and some cabbage across a river. His rowing boat has enough room for him plus either the wolf or the goat or the cabbage. If he takes the cabbage with him, the wolf will eat the goat. If he takes the wolf, the goat will eat the cabbage. Only when the man is present are the goat and the cabbage safe from their enemies. Eventually, the man carries wolf, goat and cabbage across the river.
How?
[Answer]

What arithmetic symbol can you put between 2 and 3 to make a number greater than 2 but less than 3? 
[Answer]
To exercise your brains for generating ideas in our Ideas Unlimited melting pot, use this exercise...

  Mentobics - the stretch exercise for a fit mind.

In this section we will try to generate as many as possible using a single trigger may be in the form of a picture or a figure or simply a word.
This time we are going to use a picture
Try to divide this square in 4 equal parts. Generate as many alternative ways as possible. (Hint: there are infinite ways of doing this)
[Answer]

List down all your ideas, however crazy they seem and mail them fast to swami@swami4kids.com. You could be our lucky winner to get our prize - The Mentobics collection, wonderful exercises for a productive mind

[top]

  Answer 1 
Since the wolf does not eat cabbage, the man starts off by taking the goat to the other side of the river. When he reaches the other side, he leaves the goat there and returns. When he reaches the starting side, he takes the cabbage and rows across. When he reaches the other side, he leaves the cabbage and takes the goat back with him. When he reaches the starting side, he leaves the goat and takes the wolf with him. When he reaches the other side, he leaves the wolf and returns by himself. When he reaches the starting side, he takes the goat and rows to the other side. 


Answer 2
A decimal point

 Answer 3

   



You can go on and on if you take up from here