Webinars SET A - Grade 3-4 - Sunday@3:15-4:15pm EST-Recording Webinar 9

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Video Summary

This Math Kangaroo webinar for grades 3-4, led by Dr. Sara Siddiqui and assistant Abhinav, focused on logical reasoning through interactive problem-solving. The session began with a warm-up problem involving bouquets given to family members, emphasizing careful reading and deduction. Students learned about one-to-one correspondence, where each person or category matches exactly one item, a key concept in these puzzles.<br /><br />The webinar included several thought-provoking problems: <br /><br />- A Sudoku-like puzzle requiring each figure to appear once per row and column.<br />- A seating arrangement problem involving seven children arranged so no two boys or three girls stood together; this tested spatial reasoning.<br />- Pet assignment puzzle with four boys each owning a distinct pet, solved via elimination and logical inference.<br />- City-of-origin puzzle where four boys from different cities were matched based on clues.<br />- Ordering bowls by weight using relative comparisons and eliminating extraneous details.<br />- Floor assignment puzzle determining which girls lived on which floor based on given conditions.<br />- A bonus truth-and-lie puzzle with five children making statements; students deduced who ate a cookie given only one lie.<br /><br />Throughout, Dr. Siddiqui and Abhinav highlighted multiple approaches to solutions, encouraged precise reading of questions, and stressed the importance of noting keywords and conditions. Interactive polls and chat enabled active participation, with most students successfully answering each problem.<br /><br />The webinar concluded with encouragement to practice with past contests and revisit video solutions. The series continues with one final session next week and a new series starting in January. Overall, the session fostered critical thinking, logical deduction, and problem-solving skills in young learners through engaging, step-by-step puzzles.

Keywords

Math Kangaroo

webinar

grades 3-4

logical reasoning

interactive problem-solving

one-to-one correspondence

Sudoku-like puzzle

seating arrangement problem

pet assignment puzzle

truth-and-lie puzzle