CCSS Standards All Serieses Depth and Complexity Differentiation Math Language Arts Games Professional Development Social Studies Science
 
 

Math Puzzles and Challenges

Parentheses: How big of a change can they make!?
Parentheses: How big of a change can they make!?
Once students understand the order of operations, they often just get stuck doing increasingly difficult practice problems. That’s a sure-fire way to squelch learning, though. Here, students determine where to place parentheses to make the greatest change in an expression.
Fizz Buzz: A Counting and Divisibility Game
Fizz Buzz: A Counting and Divisibility Game
Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?
Why Is Our Calendar So Weird!?
Why Is Our Calendar So Weird!?
Why are there 12 months? Why don’t weeks fit into months evenly? Why don’t weeks fit into the year evenly? What’s going on with the calendar!
Doubling Dollars
Doubling Dollars
Say you have a dollar. Say you can double that dollar each day: $1, $2, $4, and so on. How long will it take to reach… one million dollars? Not as long as you might think!
Crossing Every Bridge Exactly Once (aka Eulerian Paths)
Crossing Every Bridge Exactly Once (aka Eulerian Paths)
How can you cross each bridge in this city exactly once?
PD Lesson
What Makes A Math Puzzle Actually Puzzling?
What Makes A Math Puzzle Actually Puzzling?
This math puzzle wasn’t so puzzling. What went wrong?
Contig
Contig
Roll three dice and combine them using any mathematical operation. But be strategic to maximize your points!