Cracking the Code: A Journey into Cryptarithmetic Puzzles
A Puzzle That Teaches More Than Math “We use alphabets and digits throughout our life and so as Cryptarithmetic.” - Hitesh T. Jain Cryptarithmetic(Alphametics) is the science and art of creating and solving Cryptarithms. "If we want students who can think computationally, we must give them problems worth computing. Cryptarithmetic is precisely such a problem." — Prof. S. Papert, Constructivist Learning Theory Cryptarithm is a mathematical puzzle or riddle in which the digits are replaced by letters of the alphabet or other symbols. In a typical puzzle, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the numbers and t...