Make sure to downplay the numerology, but...

... as a number game, this might be fun for the younger kids and since these ads are from the post-war era, there might be a teaching across the curriculum opportunity here.

From A Statistician Walks into a Grocery Store...

Of course, given the junk food sponsor, you might want to do a bit of editing.

Invertibles

From Classic Puzzles for the Classroom:

The invertible, a picture that depicts one thing when held right side up and another when held upside down, was one of the most popular features of the comics puzzle page. From a puzzle standpoint it is an odd beast, being perhaps closer to an optical illusion than a true puzzle for the reader (though arguably not for the creator).

Perhaps the most impressive use of the form was made by turn-of-the-century artist Gustave Verbeek who produced a weekly invertible comic strip. In Verbeek’s world, a fish attacking a canoe in panel 5…

Might become a giant Roc in panel 8.

Here is another sample of Verbeek’s work followed by some of the invertibles you would have seen in Golden Age comics.

Puzzle Wednesdays

Worth Carnahan is one of those Golden Age artists who has fallen into near complete obscurity despite some very good work. For the next few weeks, we'll take a look at some of the puzzle pages he did for Harvey's Champion Comics.

Here's number 7  and the last in the series. Check back next week for more puzzles.

From Classic Puzzles for the Classroom

OOPS! -- "Mathematics can only be understood backwards but it must be proved forward" isn't ready yet

For those who came by earlier, I apologize. I hit 'publish' when I should have hit 'save.'

Puzzle Wednesdays

Worth Carnahan is one of those Golden Age artists who has fallen into near complete obscurity despite some very good work. For the next few weeks, we'll take a look at some of the puzzle pages he did for Harvey's Champion Comics.

Here's number 6 in the series (sorry about the damage). Check back next week for another edition and the answers to these puzzles.

From Classic Puzzles for the Classroom

Puzzle Wednesdays

Worth Carnahan is one of those Golden Age artists who has fallen into near complete obscurity despite some very good work. For the next few weeks, we'll take a look at some of the puzzle pages he did for Harvey's Champion Comics.

Here's number 5 in the series. Check back next week for another edition and the answers to these puzzles.

From Classic Puzzles for the Classroom

A fun vintage cartoon

I would very much like to get a copy of the comic book version.

Puzzle Wednesdays

Worth Carnahan is one of those Golden Age artists who has fallen into near complete obscurity despite some very good work. For the next few weeks, we'll take a look at some of the puzzle pages he did for Harvey's Champion Comics.

Here's number 4 in the series. Check back next week for another edition and the answers to these puzzles.

From Classic Puzzles for the Classroom