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Develop process of elimination strategies with math

Kakuro is a wonderful puzzle for students practicing their number skills. Like Sudoku, it exercises the skills used for managing short-term memory and eliminating impossible choices. However, it also helps to strengthen the student's ability to rapidly view numbers as combinations, as skill that comes in handy in higher levels of math such as algebra.

The different levels in this worksheet generator let you specify the size and difficulty of the puzzle. At its loweset settings, a clever first grader should be able to solve the puzzle in about ten minutes.