Rope around the wold puzzle

A puzzle for your A level Economics classes with an answer provided. Come to think of it, any class might find this fun and engaging.

This is an interesting starter puzzle which may look tricky to some at first sight but is in fact breathtakingly easy.

I have found it especially useful when arriving at a lesson not as prepared as I would have liked to have been, and being faced with a class registration system that requires a PhD in Computer Science to operate.

The idea is to get the class on-task doing something useful and to demonstrate that when tackling something new we need to block out those negative thoughts we all get (or is that just me?) and to think about what we already know, and how that might help.

It is also to show that we need to be aware of any assumptions we are making when we deal with an unfamiliar question - that’s really important not just for the exams but for life too as I think we would all agree.

Free for you to copy, share and do with as you please.

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Good luck to all teachers - you do an amazing job.