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Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Brain Teasers

For Students 1st - 6th
A collection of Math brain teasers.
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Braingle

Braingle: Probability Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out the variety of probability brain teasers at this site, which you can sort by popularity and difficulty.
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Braingle

Braingle: Math Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out the variety of math brain teasers at this site, which you can sort by popularity and difficulty.
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Braingle

Braingle: Cryptography Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your critical thinking skills with a variety of cryptography brain teasers, phrases or expressions "encoded in some way." Solve the teasers provided at this site, and submit your own for others to try!
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Braingle

Braingle: Logic Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Think logically as your solve the brain teasers provided on this page. Test your own logic skills with the puzzles that you can sort by popularity and difficulty, and test others' logic skills by submitting your own puzzles.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Brain Boosters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discovery School offers a terrific "categorized archive of challenging Brain Boosters." Choose from hundreds of engaging activities pertaining to Categorization, Lateral Thinking, Reasoning, Logic, Word and Letter Play, Spatial...
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Braingle

Braingle: Optical Illusion Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out the variety of optical illusions provided at this site. Fool your eyes with "Chair or Block," "Angles or E," "Old or Young Woman," "Face or Vase," and others.
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Games for the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Features great games to wake up the brain. Test your knowledge of words, numbers, vocabulary, and more while having fun.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Kids' Place Mathematics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Kids' Place Mathematics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...
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Curated OER

Brain Teasers Banner

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use these twelve printable brain teasers with your math lessons. Each one is illustrated and provides directions to assist you in finding the answer.
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US Department of Education

Nces Kids' Zone: Math Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource consists of math challenges that use problem-solving skills. Students can check their answers and look at past problems.
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Braingle

Braingle: Mystery Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read stories and solve mysteries based on clues provided. Also, submit your own mysteries for other visitors to this site to solve.
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Braingle

Braingle: Letter Equations Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
The letter equations at this site test your critical thinking skills as well as your knowledge of facts dealing with a variety of subjects: geography, music, history and more.
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Problems in the Points Contest of Ko Mal

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the annual KoMal competition in mathematics, physics, and information technology, and challenge your ability to solve problems involving advanced algebra, logic, and other related topics through the tests provided at this site.
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Other

Light Up Your Brain: Brain Teaser Games & Audio Stories for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Fantastic classic children's stories online that you can listen to while you read along. Stories are offered in streaming or downloadable MP3 format. Some of the popular stories are: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", "The Tale of the Flopsy...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: K 12 Math Puzzles

For Students K - 1st
This site from the Math Forum of Drexel University provides a selection of math puzzles for grades K through 12 are found here. Types include: taking the numbers in the year 2004 and arriving at the numbers 1 through 100, using four 4s...
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Other

Mycoted: Lateral Thinking Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th
A storehouse of puzzles designed to train the brain to think in atypical ways. Find riddles, visual puzzles, analogies, math problems, and more. Excellent source of raw material for practicing original and creative thinking one puzzle at...
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Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Circular Pipes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A realistic world problem using the knowledge of chords and the parts of a circle to solve. Test your knowledge on this brain teaser!
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families

For Students 2nd - 8th
Students, teachers, and parents alike will enjoy this challenging math site. It contains a clever brain teaser section plus creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Cuckoo Caper

For Students 3rd - 8th
The famous Clockenheimer Cuckoo is missing from Clockenheimer Clocks on Main Street! Help Math Maven get it back by solving a math riddle.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Got It

For Students 1st - 8th
Sharpen your logical thinking and see if you can figure out the strategy to get to the target number before the computer.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families

For Students 9th - 10th
NCTM offers sections on Families & School, Families & Math, Families & Homework, and more. Has links to brain-teaser problems ranging in skill from very easy to challenging. Click Take a Challenge or Challenge Index for...

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