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A Shoe-ful Family

Ready, set, take off your shoes!

Imagine you had 1,000 legs. You would need 1,000 shoes! This is the reality of a special family: the centipede family. How long will it take for all members of the family to take off their shoes?

You will have to work with big numbers to solve this puzzle. But at least, there aren’t 1,000 obstacles!


  • To solve this puzzle, your students must be able to round up and calculate with decimal numbers.

  • Planning notes

  • To solve this puzzle, your students must be able to round up and calculate with decimal numbers.

  • Planning notes