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Challenging Venn diagram math puzzles based on nursery rhymes! A fun way to improve problem-solving skills, learn to use visual diagrams to organize information, strengthen abilities to analyze data and see relationships, and practice reading for details—all while exercising math skills. 48 puzzles (one per page). For grades 3rd-6th. Note: These puzzles were originally published by MindWare as Venn Perplexors Level B. Please visit my TpT store for more puzzles: Evelyn Christensen Puzzles-Math-an

A chance to make your money count for more! Make it count for fun and great thinking adventures with these challenging logic and math puzzles. Skills developed and exercised by these puzzles activities include: • analyzing statements about relationships • integrating two or more constraints on a system in the process of finding a solution • generating more than one solution to a problem • discovering redundant information in the problem solving situation • developing precise,

Paperclips have never been such a fun way to exercise your brain. Read the clues, use your logic, and sequence a chain of colors to match the clues. In the second half of the book, find two solutions for each puzzle; then write a clue to go with each solution. Great for gifted students and anybody who likes a challenge. A fun way to keep minds active during the summer or on trips. 65 puzzles. 33 pages. Note: these puzzles were originally published by Dale Seymour Publications in Clip-Clue Puzzle

Nearly every student loves riddles and secret codes, so turn your fraction practice into fun with these engaging puzzle pages. Equivalent fractions, reducing, mixed numbers, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing—all the topics are included. Not only do students practice fractions, but also mapping skills, as they trace their path north, south, east, and west through a maze of letters to determine the answer to the riddle. 30 puzzles with 16-18 fraction problems per puzzle. For grades

This book has three kinds of challenging Venn diagram puzzles: • 28 fun, alien-themed puzzles that help students read for details and improve their mathematical problem solving by using Venn diagrams to organize information, analyze data, and see relationships. • 12 puzzles that challenge students to analyze similarities and differences and determine classification categories. • 8 introductory logic puzzles that encourage careful reading and valid, accurate reasoning. Great activities fo

Wow! Paperclips have been transformed into the exercise equipment for your brain’s fun workout session. Read the clues, use your logic, and sequence a chain of colors to match the clues. But then it gets more challenging! Sometimes you find two solutions for each puzzle, or you look for unneeded clues, or you might even find a puzzle with no solution. Great for gifted students and anybody who likes a challenge. A fun way to keep minds active during the summer or on trips. Appropriate all the way

Delightful mind-stretchers that: • Reinforce names and values of coins and counting money • Provide practice with concepts of more/less, odd/even, before/after/between, ordinal numbers, and symmetry • Strengthen reading or listening skills • Encourage following directions • Build reasoning and logic skills The object of each puzzle is to put coins in a line to match the clues. The suggested age range is K-3. The book has 108 puzzles. Note: The puzzles were first published by Nasco

Are you looking for fun math puzzles that really get your students to use their minds? Here is what you can expect from this set of 48: • Challenging Venn puzzles that use overlapping ovals to help students visualize relationships and organize information. • Exercising critical and logical thinking skills. • Including the examples, a puzzle for each of the 50 U.S. states! • An intriguing way to integrate mathematics and interesting geographic facts. • A fun opportunity to strengthen student

Cash in on fun learning while mastering the skill of making change. Knowing how to make change is important. Coin Clue Puzzles - Making Change is loaded with engaging puzzles designed to help students become proficient and confident when changing coins. Clever clues also build logic and deductive reasoning skills. First figure out the change (with the correct number of coins) that should be received from a purchase. Then add in some extra, designated coins. Finally, put all the coins in correct

Want to give your students’ brain cells a real workout? Then these are the puzzles for you! Use knowledge of sums, differences, products, fractions, symmetry, and order to create paperclip chains that match the clues. Great for gifted students and anybody who likes a challenge. A fun way to keep minds active during the summer or on trips. Appropriate all the way up to adults, so you can enjoy a family puzzle time. 66 puzzles. 24 pages. Note: 35 of these puzzles were originally published by MindW

Not your usual tangram puzzles. Most tangram puzzles use all 7 pieces and ask for only 1 solution. This book features puzzles that encourage problem solvers to be flexible in their thinking by asking for multiple solutions. We need good problem solvers in our world, and good problem solvers are able to tackle problems using lots of different approaches. The puzzles start very simply (2 tans) and help students understand the relationships among the pieces. This is key to being able to change th

These fun activities involve sorting words and pictures into sets and subsets using Venn diagrams. They help children: • develop their abilities to see relationships. • distinguish similarities and differences. • classify a variety of objects and words. • build reading vocabulary and logic skills. • have practice with concepts such as living/non-living, plants/animals, hot/cold, big/little, soft/hard, etc. The first half of the book has pictures with words; the second half has just wo

Yay for a fun path to practicing math facts. Each correctly completed puzzle gives a route from the first number to the last number, as you do each operation along the way. The puzzles are missing one or more numbers or operation signs, so the fun is in figuring out what will fit for the missing parts. Working both backwards and forwards, students develop an increased understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction and between multiplication and division. Originally published

Almost everybody enjoys decoding secret messages, so this puzzle book is sure to delight young math students! Each page has a question about a fascinating animal fact. Working the division problems provides the necessary clues to decode the answer. The puzzles also help students practice important map-reading skills. Each clue is given in terms of a north, south, east, or west direction. In order to decode the answer to the question, a student must follow the directions correctly. 30 puzzles wit

Fun activities to ensure kids understand the concept of area and perimeter and don’t just memorize a formula. This book is full of intriguing figures (like rockets, castles, birds, and foxes) which look, at first glance, as if finding their areas would be really hard. The key, however, is in using problem solving skills to break the puzzle figures down into parts, and the book helps kids learn, step by step, that they really do have the ability to master the challenges! These puzzles were origi

Almost everybody enjoys mysteries and secret messages, so this puzzle book is sure to delight developing young math students! Each page has a mystery question (most of them science related). Giving the correct answers to the multiplication facts provides the necessary clues to solve the mystery. The puzzles also help students practice important map-reading skills. Each clue is given in terms of a north, south, east, or west direction. In order to solve the mystery, a student must follow the di

An engaging route to learning, using math reasoning along the way. Start with the first number in a puzzle, fill in missing numbers, operation signs, or sometimes even the roads themselves, to end at the last number. The fun is in figuring out what will fit for the missing parts. Working both backwards and forwards, students develop an understanding of the relationships between addition and subtraction and between multiplication and division. Originally published by Nasco as Math Map Puzzles L

Add some challenge and zip to your students' study of Michigan with these 30 fun, educational puzzles that tie in with the state's history, culture, economy, and geography. The book is interdisciplinary, tapping into the students' knowledge of math, logic, words, factual information, and visual problem solving. The puzzles range in difficulty from fairly easy to complex, which make them ideal for homeschooling, family fun times, and classrooms that have a range of ability levels. They can be a

Yay for a fun path to practicing addition and subtraction facts. Each correctly completed puzzle gives a route from the first number to the last number, if you do each operation along the way. The puzzles are missing one or more numbers or operation signs, so the fun is in figuring out what will fit for the missing parts. Working both backwards and forwards, students develop an increased understanding of the relationship between the operations of addition and subtraction. Originally published by

Fun puzzles for students to practice both addition and subtraction and, at the same time, use their logic to figure which blank square can be solved next. The puzzles can be used as homework, regular classroom work, a reward for those who finish work early, or as an activity in a math learning center. The resource includes 60 puzzles (2 per page). Please visit my TpT store for more puzzles: Evelyn Christensen Puzzles-Math-and-More