Math Slice
Math Slice: Math Crossword Slice Special Test
Use this interactive math crossword puzzle to build number sense skills. Simply fill in the missing numbers based on the operation. Immediate feedback given to responses.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Frog Riddle?
You're stranded in a rainforest, and you've eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need an antidote excreted by a certain species of frog. Unfortunately, only the female frog produces the antidote. The male and female look...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Tantaliser Tantrix Discoveries
This game combines tangrams and pattern recognition to offer you a challenge. The page has a "Printable page" link if you want to print it out to help you work with the problem.
Scholastic
Scholastic: I Spy
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Matchstick Puzzles
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart, students use logic and mathematical reasoning to visually solve problems using matchsticks. Students develop their sense of pattern recognition, and pattern disruption, and then apply...
PE Central
Pe Central: Mystery Puzzle Race
Students work in teams to complete physical tasks and, in the process, solve a sports- or health-related puzzle. Modify this activity to make it more challenging or to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot: 3 Glasses Puzzle
Challenge students to a well-known riddle involving three different-sized glasses, some water, and a goal of a certain amount to be measured out. At this site, students can actually "pour" the water back and forth to solve the problem.
University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Minimal Spanning Trees
This puzzle shows students the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city. It can lead on to a discussion of minimal spanning tree algorithms for optimizing networks.
Other
Mr. Pitonyak's Pyramid Puzzle
Students estimate the cost of building an Egyptian pyramid with modern materials and ancient building methods in this math project.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Cuckoo Caper
The famous Clockenheimer Cuckoo is missing from Clockenheimer Clocks on Main Street! Help Math Maven get it back by solving a math riddle.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 8: Reading and the Brain
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Puzzles
[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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Animal Einsteins: Figure That One Out
Investigate problem-solving techniques by using observation and data analysis skills. Observe how different people solve the same puzzle and make conclusions about how humans and animals think.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Brain Sizzlers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains one page logic puzzles adapted from the book Brain Sizzlers. These activities make great warm ups for math grades 6- algebra.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Blue Box
In a very blue world of a very square box, there is green, red and blue, and a puzzle to solve. Help move the bouncing blue box from the green box to the red box. Both children and parents will find tons of fun in this addicting puzzle...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Blobble
Blobble is slimy strategy puzzle game that will keep you slipping and sliding for hours! The goal is to fill an entire space with blobs, using only the tools available in each level. Do you have what it takes to complete all 45 levels?
Other
Juegos, Acertijos, Y Recreaciones Matematicas
In Spanish. A variety of logic problems, including puzzles and word problems with links to the answers. An excellent site to engage Spanish speaking students.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alarmy 2
Alarmy is back in this fun physics based puzzle game! Kids of all ages can help Alarmy wake up more of his fuzzy friends. Alarmy 2 is packed full of new challenges and obstacles. Do you have what it takes to collect all 72 stars?
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alarmy
Alarmy is a fun physics based puzzle game for all ages! Help Alarmy wake up his fuzzy friends as he makes his way through different levels. You never know what type of challenges Alarmy will face!
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Solving Decimal Word Puzzles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This interactive media source is practice writing decimals. Students have to understand place value for both whole numbers and decimals in order to correctly write...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Zippy Boxes
Zippy Boxes is a fun stress-free puzzle game that will keep you entertained for hours. Move the colored boxes to the square containing the same colored key to unlock the crazy creature trapped inside. Parents and children will have a...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Lineum
Lineum is a relaxing puzzle game where the goal is to turn the entire gameboard green by drawing a continuous line to flip the non-green tiles.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Lightybulb
Lightybulb is a fun puzzle game that will keep you thinking as you try to light up Lightybulb's dark world. Could it be as easy as flipping a light switch? You'll have to find out for yourself!
ABCya
Ab Cya: Jelly Doods
Jelly Doods is a fun puzzle game for both children and adults! Slide the jellies around the screen to combine all the matching colors. You only have so many moves to complete each puzzle, so make sure you plan accordingly!