Seating Arrangements

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Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Why do this problem?

This problem encourages children to work systematically and it will consolidate their understanding of positional language.

Key questions

Which two girls are sitting next to each other?
Can you choose places for Felix and Carol?

Possible extension

Those who finish quickly could try this much harder logic problem.

Possible support

Children could use counters with the initial letter of each person on them so that they can be moved around easily.

Published October 1999.