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🥤 The Pepsi Challenge
You have 5 bottles of Pepsi and 6 teachers. Everyone must receive a bottle, but you cannot open, pour, or share any Pepsi. How can you do it?
Give one teacher a bottle of Pepsi, and give the sixth teacher a bottle with the Pepsi still inside.
The trick is that the bottle itself can be handed over without opening it.
👉Key Lesson: Think outside the box
The Missing Teacher
Ms Nelson, i saw three teachers enter a classroom. After 10 minutes, two teachers leave, but when I went to see, three teachers were still in the classroom. How is this possible?
Teachers were already inside the classroom
Key Lesson: Leave people business alone
👨🏽👩🏽👦🏽 The Parent Challenge
A parent says, “My child never talks in class, so the teacher must not be teaching properly.”
Give THREE possible reasons why the parent’s conclusion might be wrong.
Three possible explanations:
The student may be shy or anxious.
The student may understand the lesson but prefer listening rather than speaking.
The student may participate through written work or other activities.
👉 The key lesson: Don't jump to conclusions without investigating.
🏫 The Principal's Challenge
The principal tells a teacher:
“You have 30 students, but I want you to arrange them into 5 groups with exactly 7
Put some students in more than one group.
For example, 30 students can form five groups of seven if five students belong to two groups each.
👉 35 group positions are needed, but there are only 30 students. Five students must therefore be counted twice.
Key lesson: Ask for help when needed. Common sense is not all that common
📝 The Marking Challenge
A student answers 10 questions. The student gets every question wrong, yet the teacher gives the student 10 marks.
How could the teacher be correct?
Another possible answer: The student got the questions wrong, but the teacher awarded 10 marks for effort
Key Lesson: motivate your students
🎒 The Student Challenge
A student comes to school every day, completes no homework, rarely participates, but always passes every test. How is this possible?
The student may be completing the work somewhere else, such as during study time, or the tests may not assess homework or participation.
👉 The challenge is to avoid assuming that poor participation automatically means poor academic performance.
🤔 The Impossible Meeting Challenge
The principal says:
“I want every teacher to speak during the meeting, but I don't want the meeting to become longer.”
How is this possible?
Have teachers speak at the same time in small groups, then have each group give one summary.
Everyone contributes without having 20 separate speeches.
Key Lesson: Not everyone needs to take center stage. We can also work from behind the scene to achieve one goal.
Five teachers each teach a different subject. One teaches Math, one Science, one English, one Social Studies and one Agriculture.
Without asking anyone what they teach, how could you determine who teaches which subject?
You cannot determine the subjects from the information given.
👉 You need additional clues.
Key Lesson: Don't judge a book by its cover