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Mystery Master: Logic Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th
Find several logic puzzle ranging from "very easy" to "very challenging."
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Nation: Games: Fidgit

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource allows students to practice engineering skills while trying to win a fun interactive game.
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Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot!: Shapes of Constant Width

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of what constant width means along with the question "are there shapes of constant width?". [Requires Java.]
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Tiny King

For Students 4th - 6th
Tiny King is a fun problem solving game for kids of all ages. Kids will need to guide the King through complex puzzles in order to complete the different levels. Can you help the King complete the game?
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Puzzles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students use the visual and interactive features of Activstudio to solve various puzzles. Students apply their algebraic and number sense to solve problems using numbers and variables.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Divide It Out!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and basic division fact skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Math Centers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This page offers a variety of math center ideas for general math and geometry. Instructions on setting up the center are not provided for most ideas, however, those lacking instructions are pretty self-evident.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Truth or Dare

For Students 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson present a series of five logic puzzles, most of which include the classic "liars and truth-tellers" format. On the teacher's page, sample leading questions are presented to help...
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Hooda Math

Hooda Math: Hooda Stacker

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hooda Math games provide students extra practice in a variety of math skills. This game focuses on CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them and CCSS.Math.Practice.MP8 Look for and express regularity in...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 8: Reading and the Brain

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Hosted by Henry Winkler, who has had his own struggles with reading, Reading and the Brain explores how brain scientists are working to solve the puzzle of why some children struggle to read and others don't. Startling new research shows...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How High Can You Count on Your Fingers? Spoiler:much Higher Than 10

For Students 9th - 10th
How high can you count on your fingers? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. After all, most of us have ten fingers- or to be more precise, eight fingers and two thumbs. This gives us a total of ten digits on our two hands,...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Should You Trust Unanimous Decisions?

For Students 9th - 10th
Imagine a police lineup where ten witnesses are asked to identify a bank robber they glimpsed fleeing the scene. If six of them pick the same person, there's a good chance that's the culprit. And if all ten do, you might think the case...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Algebra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Through this collection of definitions, lessons, problem-solving steps and strategies, and example questions, you'll learn why completing an algebra problem is a lot like solving a puzzle. After viewing introductory material and basic...
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Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain

Red Escolar: El Crucigrama De Hipatia

For Students 6th - 8th
In Spanish. Hypatia of Alejandria was a great mathematician that from an early age taught and investigated almost all branches of mathematics. To remember her solve the crossword puzzle involving problems of arithmetic, geometry and...
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Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Square Laminas

For Students 6th - 9th
Solve this square lamina problem using your visualization skills and other mathematical prolem solving strategies.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: 1 Step 2 Step, Fibonacci

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
See if you can find the patterns on the staircase. Mr. Fibonacci would be so proud to know you found the solution. You can check your solution right at this nifty one-page website.
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Quia

Quia: Division Facts Matching

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this website to practice division facts using a matching game format.
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Harvey Mudd College

Mudd Math Fun Facts: Magic Squares, Indeed!

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This tutorial provides a definition and examples of a "magic square" and then shows a proof and generalizations.
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Harvey Mudd College

Mudd Math Fun Facts: Squares Ending in 5

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This math tutorial features an exercise in which you are given any two-digit number that ends in 5 and then square it in your head.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Super Value Codes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and addition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Games: Quack's Apples

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students are challenged to position sticks creating a path so apples land into the pond.