New Years Math Activities and Puzzles
Help ring in the new year of 2025 with these new years math activities and puzzles for the classroom.
Help your students ease back into the school year after winter break with this collection of New Year’s math activities. I have created these puzzles and activities to use with high school math students, but most of them would be appropriate for the upper elementary or middle school math classroom as well.
2025 Yearly Number Challenge
The 2025 math challenge is a simple to explain puzzle that will keep you captivated for hours. Using the digits in the current year exactly one time each, can you write a mathematical expression for each digit between 1 and 100? You may use any mathematical symbol or operation of your choosing.
2024 Puzzle (2025 Puzzle – Coming Soon!)
Celebrate the new year with a fun 2024 puzzle! Can you arrange the strips in the provided grid to form the digits in 2024? This puzzle is available in two levels and is sure to provide a fun challenge for students and adults alike!
2024 Pentomino Puzzle (2025 Version Coming Soon!)
The 2024 Pentomino Puzzle puts a fun twist on a classic pentominoes puzzle by having holes in some of the pieces. Can you build a 5×6 rectangle using pentominoes pieces so that the year 2024 is still visible?
Keep Change Start Stop New Years Reflection Form
Start the new year with some reflection about the previous year ore previous semester. You and your students will benefit from reflecting on what you want to KEEP, CHANGE, START, and STOP as you enter 2025.
