Class, Take Your Seats A Puzzle by David Pleacher
Published in the Winter 1991 issue of The Virginia Mathematics Teacher
Grade Level: 11 - 12, College
Materials: One set of worksheets for each student
Objective: The student will be able to solve problems involving maximums and minimums.
Discussion: Topics include relative maximum and minimum, absolute maximum and minimum, points of inflection,
critical points, and normals and tangents to a curve.
Students must first solve the nineteen max/min problems in the puzzle. Then they must determine the possible seating arrangement
using logic.