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Animal Brains

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Do big bodies make big brains? Let your learners decide whether there is an association between body weight and brain weight by putting the data from different animals into a scatterplot. They can remove any outliers and then make a line...
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The Brain Teaser Five Pack

For Students 4th - 6th
In this brain teaser worksheet, students find the answers to 5 word and number puzzles. They reason answers and use number skills to find the answers.
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Athletes: Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 12th
In this brain teaser worksheet, students solve 1 short answer word problem. Students determine who out of four people is a golfer given various information about the four people.
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Security Guards: Brain Teaser

For Students 9th - 12th
In this problem solving worksheet, high schoolers solve 1 short answer word problem. Students make a work schedule for four security guards that meets given requirements.
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Scatter-Brained

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. They create a scatterplot. Additionally, they determine the line of best fit and investigate the slope of the line. Multiple resources are provided. An excellent resource!
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Congruent Polygons: Copying Stretchy Shapes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate congruent polygons through dance. In this congruency lesson, 3rd graders do the "brain dance" as a warm up. They review polygon names by singing "The Polygon Chant," before mirroring congruent shapes with a...
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Math Club #19: Brain Twisters

For Students 7th
In this brain twisters worksheet, 7th graders work in groups to solve 7 puzzles using logic and problems solving skills.
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Two for One Box Company

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Given a box of certain dimensions, young mathematicians must determine if a box that is twice as big, actually holds twice as much. This is a brain-teaser of a problem. The worksheet provides a handy table that has learners calculate the...
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Brain Train

For Teachers 5th - 8th
A lengthy presentation on geometric reflections is here for your young geometers. Learners consider a shape, then must choose between four reflections to find the one that is a true vertical, horizontal, or diagonal reflection of the...
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Brain Teasers

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this fraction story problem worksheet, students read the 6 story problems and write the answers on the lines provided. The problems all involve fractions.
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Making a Brain: Aritifical Neural Network

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars explore how the brain works. In this nervous system instructional activity, students create a network of "neurons" to simulate how the nervous system and the brain work together.
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Top of the Heap Brain Teaser

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this brain teaser learning exercise, students color and cut out the large squares to use for the puzzle. Students assemble their squares to create the pattern and give directions.
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Brain Brands

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the advent of neuromarketing as a means to assess the effects of certain brands on the brain activity of prospective buyers. They design their own experiments that test the power of certain brands on a sample population.
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Brain Teaser

For Students 4th - 5th
In this brain teaser worksheet, students solve one brain teaser word problems. A website reference is given for additional activities. 
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Brain Teaser Problem

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this brain teaser worksheet, students solve 1 problem, then click on a button to check their answer. A website reference is given for additional activities. 
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Brain Teaser -"Prizes"

For Students 4th - 6th
In this brain teaser worksheet, students solve 1 brain teaser word problem. A website reference is given for additional activities. 
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Coded Message Game

For Students 4th - 6th
In this coded message worksheet, students use the two-digit numbers and letters of the alphabet code to decipher a quote about the brain from Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Students decode eighteen words.
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Scatter Brain

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Examine a coordinated geometry grid to decode the hidden message. Pupils write a coded message to their parents using letter coordinates from the grid.
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Brain Boosters - Add Ten on a Number Line

For Students 2nd
Encourage learners to use pictures, numbers, or words to solve two-word problems in which they count by 10's using a number line. They tell the total number of items the child has in each problem by starting at a given number and adding...
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Brain Teaser - Mail

For Students 6th - 10th
In this logic worksheet, students solve a word problem using logic about sending a letter without the mailman opening the box. Students complete 1 problem.
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The Nine Digits Problem

For Students 9th - 12th
In this problem solving learning exercise, students find the solution to 2 brain teasers.  Students have two addition problems that they must replace 9 letters with the correct digits 1-9.
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Recalling Multiplication and Division Facts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A fabulous presentation on multiplication and division facts. In it, learners work in pairs to solve all sorts of problems, puzzles, brain teasers, and mental math problems. These problems focus on multiplication, division, rounding, and...
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Year 5 - Term 2

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This incredibly thorough and challenging presentation should engage all of your young math whizzes. Each of the 94 slides has tips, problems, puzzles, and brain teasers that will test the math abilities of even your top learners. An...
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Prime Factorization: Finding Factors in the Fifth Grade

For Teachers 5th
The lesson starts out with a brain drain, which is a great way to get students to activate prior knowledge and build lasting connections. They tell everything they know about prime factorization, use their knowledge to...

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