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Who is Naoki Inaba? Naoki Inaba is a prolific Japanese puzzle author of over 400 original logic puzzles. Inaba has a lovely website full of free PDF puzzles. The only issue is that the website is entirely in Japanese. His puzzles have been featured in both the New York Times and The Guardian. Since his…
Middle School Math Activities Find Helpful and Free Resources for Teaching Math to Middle School Students in Sixth through Eighth Grade. Middle School Math Teaching Tools Middle School Math Resources by Topic I have sorted my middle school math resources into six main categories: Number System and Operations Build fluency with operations on whole numbers,…
High School Math Activities Find Helpful and Free Resources for Teaching Math to High School Students. Featuring Resources for Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, Precalculus, Statistics, and Calculus. High School Math Teaching Tools High School Math Subjects All of my high school math activities are sorted by subject. If you teach an integrated curriculum,…
Make Algebra 2 fun with this collection of free printable hands-on Algebra 2 activities!
Make learning the order of operations fun with this collection of free printable activities, games, and teaching resources.
Make teaching place value fun and interactive with this collection of free printable place value games, activities, and teaching resources.
Practice your place value skills with these zero puzzles from Naoki Inaba. Add zeros to the end of some of the digit cards in order to form a true equation.
These angle loop puzzles from Naoki Inaba challenge you to create a closed loop that matches all of the angle measurements that it travels through.
Put your knowledge of order of operations to the test with these Gemini “Twin” puzzles from prolific Japanese logic puzzle creator, Naoki Inaba.
This collection of free middle school and high school geometry activities are sure to bring an element of hands-on learning and fun to your classroom!
Want to incorporate math puzzles into your classroom to help your students build their critical thinking and problem-solving skills? As a busy teacher, your time is limited. That’s why I created this collection of free printable math puzzles to make it easy to incorporate some puzzling fun into your classroom. Even though I put this…
Can you put your knowledge of arithmetic sequences to the test to solve this arithmetic sequence puzzle worksheet?
3-5 Upper Elementary Math Resources Find Helpful and Free Resources for Teaching Math to Students in Third through Fifth Grade. 3-5 Math Teaching Tools 3-5 Math Resources by Topic I have sorted my upper elementary math resources into six main categories: Multiplication and Division These activities help students master multiplication and division facts, explore factors,…
K-2 Lower Elementary Math Resources Find Helpful and Free Resources for Teaching Math to Students in Pre-K through Second Grade. K-2 Math Teaching Tools K-2 Math Resources by Topic I have sorted my lower elementary math resources into six main categories: Number Sense and Counting Help young learners build a strong foundation in understanding numbers,…
This collection of order of operations puzzles will give your students plenty of puzzling fun while applying the order of operations to a large number of numerical expressions.
I taught Algebra 1 to high school students for six years. Over the course of those six years, I blogged about many of the Algebra 1 activities I created for them to do. I hope you enjoy this round-up of 169 fun and engaging Algebra 1 activities. Let me know if you find an activity…
Looking for fun and engaging geometry puzzles? Here is a collection of 27 free printable geometric puzzles that I have used in the past with my high school math students. Most of these puzzles should be appropriate to use with individuals ranging in age from upper elementary school or middle school to adults. My students’…
Looking for engaging factoring activities for your Algebra 1 or Algebra 2 students? Check out these creative and hands-on factoring games and puzzles that will help make factoring fun!
Finish the year strong with this collection of end of year activities for math class. These fun end of year math activities will keep students’ brains active until the very last day.
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Welcome to the Algebra & Functions teaching resource index! Teaching algebra and functions can be a challenging task, which is why we’ve compiled these resources to make your job easier. This section of the Math Teaching Resource Index offers an extensive range of resources, including lesson plans, engaging activities, challenging worksheets, and assessments. Whether you’re…
Sankaku puzzles are a geometric based logic puzzle that focuses on finding the area of a triangle. The goal of each puzzle is to connect three dots to form a triangle with the specified area.
I am really liking these quadratic area puzzles from Chritsopher (Bow Tie Teacher on twitter) that are posted for free on TES. They are inspired by Naoki Inaba‘s Area Maze puzzles with a quadratic spin on things. For next year, I think I would like to do some sort of activity at the beginning of…
These number ball puzzles from Naoki Inaba involve placing the specified numbers in each row and column. Cells with circles must be used. Cells with X’s may not be used.
Hidoku Puzzles (also known as hidato puzzles) have been one of my go-to puzzles in my file cabinet of puzzles for several years now. I have had great success with getting students interested in these puzzles who haven’t been interested in other logic puzzles like Sudoku or KenKen. Somehow, these puzzles have never made an…
You’ll need some logical thinking in order to fill in the missing circles on these step puzzles from Naoki Inaba so the numbers on each line form an arithmetic sequence.