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Curated OER

The 500 Problem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explain face, place and total value of numbers as well as solve three-digit subtraction problems. Before trying answer the problem Students must be able to examine that the same digit is used to represent different amounts.
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TES Global

Tes: Printed Quiz on 11: Plus Verbal Reasoning Hidden Word

For Students 1st - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides several word puzzles for students. When given sets of phrases, students will find four-letter words hidden within each set.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Puzzle Drops

For Students 3rd - 6th
Puzzle Drops is a fun match-3 puzzle game that the whole family will enjoy! Click/tap to rotate the puzzle piece and then drag it to the appropriate place on the game board. You'll have to use some strategy to reach the goal in each level.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Daisy's Plumber Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 6th
Daisy needs your help getting water to all the snoozing flowers! Use your plumber skills to rearrange the pipes so that the water flows from the faucet to the thirsty flower. The whole family will have fun with this puzzle game!
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Other

Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 2

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
NZMaths is a New Zealand teacher resource that provides lesson plans for learners in algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, logic and reasoning.
Lesson Plan
Other

Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 1

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
NZMaths, a New Zealand teacher resource, provides lesson plans for students in algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, logic and reasoning.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Cute Puzzle Witch

For Students 1st - 5th
Wands ready kids? Magical mayhem & enchanting action guaranteed! Can you handle the challenge? Click on groups of 3 or more of the same color to magically collapse the blocks. Careful, do not let them reach the top! Happy clicking!
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Four Triangles Puzzle

For Students K - 1st Standards
Sharpen your logic and and pattern recognition skills with this four triangles puzzle. The solution is available to check your work.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Famously Difficult Green Eyed Logic Puzzle?

For Students 9th - 10th
One hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gendler walks us through this green-eyed...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Pixo Cross

For Students 5th - 6th
Pixo Cross is an addicting puzzle game for the whole family! Your goal is to reveal the hidden picture in each level. Simply, click to fill the cells in the level. There are numbers placed along the outside of the puzzle that tells you...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: 2048

For Students 4th - 6th
2048 is a challenging number puzzle for kids and grown ups. The object is to join the numbers to get the 2048 tile. Use your arrow keys to move tiles. When two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one!
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Jelly Slice

For Students 3rd - 6th
Jelly Slice is a unique brain and puzzle game in which you use your fingers or mouse to slice the jelly and collect the stars through challenging levels. There is only one rule: Slice the jelly so that each slice contains only 1 star....
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Jelly Collapse

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Jelly Collapse is a physics-based puzzle for kids of all ages. Tap chains of like-colored jellies to collect them and reach the goal!
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ABCya

Ab Cya: 10 X 10 Ice Cream Adventure

For Students 3rd - 6th
10 x 10 is a fun puzzle game for the whole family! Help Mr. Pebbles score points by dragging the ice cream into the grid to fill up vertical and horizontal lines. There are lots of tasty ice cream treats to help you along the way!
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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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Disfruta Las Matematicas

Disfruta Las Matematicas: Puzzles De Logica

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains many logic puzzles. It could be used as fun supplementary materials. Solutions are also provided.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Seven Pots of Plants

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this one page website sharpen your logic skills while working on this flower pot labels mix up challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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Other

Exidor's Logic Puzzle Place

For Students 9th - 10th
This lighthearted personal website (Exidor is a character from the old "Mork and Mindy" TV show) provides a multitude of logic puzzles and brain teasers, along with links to similar sites. Solutions provided for each puzzle.
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Other

Sudoku Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers many uses for Sudoku, including free online puzzles, free puzzles for school publication, and it gives the history of Sudoku.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sudoku Puzzles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson concerns Sudoku puzzles and Latin squares, as well as their relationships and differences. Students learn about both of these puzzles, and hopefully become hooked in the logic...
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Other

Puzz.com's 1001 Best Puzzles: Brain Training Games: Analogies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These four self-scoring analogy tests include a number of open ended analogies to challenge your logic skills.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Logic Puzzles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a series of logic puzzles. Students use the information provided to find the solution to each puzzle.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Matchstick Puzzles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sliding Puzzle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students use the interactive drawing tools in Activstudio to develop their geometric sense by solving a sliding puzzle using different colored squares.