Critical Thinking Puzzles - Math Critical Thinking Problem Solving Activities

Description

Build problem solving skills with your students using these Math Games and Logic Puzzles. This is a set of 20 math logic puzzles that use math word problem task cards that are fun and engaging for 2nd and 3rd grade students. These hands-on DIGITAL and PRINTABLE math center brain teaser task card activities include 20 animal theme logic puzzles and math riddles that will challenge and excite your students!

You will guide your students to discover how to think analytically and outside the box by exploring on their own how-to problem solve! Students will love using these math logic puzzle task card activities for:

morning math enrichment activities
math center activities
early finishers work
extra credit
game days

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The Great Animal Race Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles Set Includes:

20 DIFFERENT Task in All
20 DIGITAL Tasks
10 PRINTABLE Color Amazing Animal Race Tasks
10 PRINTABLE Black & White Animal Race Tasks
Two Sizes of Color Animals Manipulatives
Two Sizes of Black & White Animals Manipulatives
Teacher Extension Ideas and Setup
Two Blank Logic Puzzle Template Cards
One Answer Recording Page (2 per page)

Benefits of Using Math Logic Puzzles in the Classroom:

builds higher level thinking skills
students learn to think outside the box
interactive, fun, and hands-on
develops reasoning skills
students learn how to think analytically
practice being challenged but not frustrated
make great yearlong math enrichment activities students LOVE

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Critical Thinking Puzzles - Math Critical Thinking Problem Solving Activities

Name: Critical Thinking Puzzles - Math Critical Thinking Problem Solving Activities
Brand: Oink4PIGTALES
SKU: 1778373
Price: 4.89 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.75 (20 reviews)

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Highlights

Digital downloads

Easel Activities, PDF

Grades

2nd - 4th

Subjects

Math

Standards

CCSSMP1

CCSSMP2

CCSSMP3

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2nd & 3rd Grade Math Enrichment Activities for Early Finishers Gifted & Talented

Build higher-level thinking skills using 250 Math Enrichment Activities to challenge your 2nd and 3rd grade students. These math logic puzzles/brain teasers are great critical thinking enrichment activities for higher-level problem-solving skills, practice algebraic reasoning, and critical thinking

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Description

morning math enrichment activities
math center activities
early finishers work
extra credit
game days

Click here to SAVE 30% on my YEARLONG Bundle!

The Great Animal Race Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles Set Includes:

20 DIFFERENT Task in All
20 DIGITAL Tasks
10 PRINTABLE Color Amazing Animal Race Tasks
10 PRINTABLE Black & White Animal Race Tasks
Two Sizes of Color Animals Manipulatives
Two Sizes of Black & White Animals Manipulatives
Teacher Extension Ideas and Setup
Two Blank Logic Puzzle Template Cards
One Answer Recording Page (2 per page)

Benefits of Using Math Logic Puzzles in the Classroom:

builds higher level thinking skills
students learn to think outside the box
interactive, fun, and hands-on
develops reasoning skills
students learn how to think analytically
practice being challenged but not frustrated
make great yearlong math enrichment activities students LOVE

CLICK here to FOLLOW me and SAVE 50% off my products the FIRST 24 HOURS POSTED!

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

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Rated 5 out of 5

February 11, 2026

This was very helpful! My students enjoyed using this in class!

Talesofagrade3teacher

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Student populations: Emerging bilinguals

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Oink4PIGTALES

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Feb 11, 2026

I always love hearing this! Appreciate your purchase and feedback!

First thing I ever bought

Rated 5 out of 5

September 27, 2025

Met expectations

Great value

Standards-aligned

My students really enjoyed this resource as did I.

Karlee R.

112 reviews

Grades taught: K

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Sep 27, 2025

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Rated 5 out of 5

January 13, 2025

My students love these. I use them with my students during guided math groups.

Laurie Hendrix

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Grades taught: 2nd

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Jan 14, 2025

Laurie thank you for letting me know how this is working for you! I appreciate your purchase and value your feedback!

Rated 5 out of 5

May 3, 2022

Fun for my students- used this for teamwork

TeacherSpark

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Grades taught: 3rd

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May 3, 2022

Thank you! Glad you all enjoyed!

Rated 5 out of 5

November 11, 2021

My students love this resource for a cognitive center.

Tami L.

236 reviews

Grades taught: 3rd

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Nov 11, 2021

OINKTASTIC! Appreciate your purchase and feedback!

Rated 5 out of 5

September 5, 2021

My students enjoyed this. Thank you!

Cynthia P.

423 reviews

Grades taught: 1st

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Sep 5, 2021

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Rated 5 out of 5

April 7, 2021

Fun activity that I used to stress the importance of rereading and checking to see if their ordering of the characters made sense.

Carol K.

167 reviews

Grades taught: 3rd

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Apr 8, 2021

Glad you liked this Carol! Appreciate your purchase and feedback!

Rated 4 out of 5

March 23, 2021

My students loved the challenge.

Carmen F.

217 reviews

Grades taught: 2nd, 3rd

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Mar 23, 2021

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Standards

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CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSSMP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

CCSSMP3

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and-if there is a flaw in an argument-explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.