This is a back issue of this website’s newsletter.
When I started Dr Mike’s Math Games for Kids, the first group of games to become popular was my collection of Printable Math Games and puzzles. I’ve recently added a new member to that flock, a Magic Hexagon Worksheet Generator.
Magic Hexagons are like magic squares – numbers get arranged in a grid so that each row and diagonal adds up to the same number. With a magic hexagon, the grid is a hexagon-shaped grid of hexagons instead of a square-shaped grid of squares. Magic hexagon puzzles make perfect replacements for magic square puzzles – the skills to solve the worksheets are virtually the same, but students are much less likely to have seen one before.
With the worksheet generator on my site, each time you visit the site the worksheet will be different. You also get an answer key. Because the worksheets are generated afresh for each visit, your students can’t come to the site to get a copy your answer key (unless you email them the URL of your worksheet, of course).
But hey, enough chit-chat from me! Hop over to the site now and print yourself up a batch of Magic Hexagon Worksheets for your class, your kids or yourself!
And have fun magic hexagonning away!
Hi Dr. Mike. I like this puzzle.
I’m working on a book called Playing With Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and the Internet, which has pieces by over 35 authors and will hopefully be published this fall. I need a few more puzzles, and I wonder whether you’d like me to include one of these in the book. I couldn’t find an email address for you.