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.
2025 Digit Grid Puzzle
Celebrate the new year with a fun 2025 puzzle! Can you arrange the strips in the provided grid to form the digits in 2025? This puzzle is available in two levels and is sure to provide a fun challenge for students and adults alike!
2025 Maze Worksheet
Ring in the new year with this fun and challenging 2025 maze worksheet. Can you find a single path that travels through each of the digits in 2025?
2025 Hidoku Logic Puzzle
Celebrate the beginning of 2025 with this fun and free printable set of hidoku logic puzzles shaped like the digits in 2025.
2025 Factor Tree Puzzle
Celebrate New Years and review factors, prime numbers, and divisibility with this free printable 2025 Factor Tree Puzzle.
2025 Square Edge Matching Puzzle
Can you rebuild the 3 x 3 square so that the year 2025 is formed in this 2025 New Years Square Edge Matching Puzzle?
2025 Pentomino Puzzle
The 2025 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 2025 is still visible?
2025 Dots and Boxes Game
Celebrate the new year with this 2025-themed dots and boxes game.
Earn a bonus point for each square you finish that contains the year 2025 in it!
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.
Puzzle Solutions
Puzzle solutions are available on a password-protected solution page. I do not openly post the puzzle answer keys because one of my goals as a resource creator is to craft learning experiences for students that are non-google-able. I want teachers to be able to use these puzzles in their classrooms without the solutions being found easily on the Internet.
Please email me at sarah@mathequalslove.net for the password to the answer key database featuring all of my printable puzzles and math worksheets. I frequently have students emailing me for the answer key, so please specify in your email what school you teach at and what subjects you teach. If you do not provide these details, I will not be able to send you the password.
Not a teacher? Go ahead and send me an email as well. Just let me know what you are using the puzzles for. I am continually in awe of how many people are using these puzzles with scouting groups, with senior adults battling dementia, or as fun activities in their workplace. Just give me enough details so I know you are not a student looking for answers to the puzzle that was assigned as their homework!
