Celebrate Pi Day on March 14th with this fun Pi Day Word Search for your middle school or high school math students.
Word Puzzles
Looking for help celebrating e Day (February 7th) with your high school math classes? Check out this e Day word search puzzle.
In this winter holiday-themed word puzzle, you must carefully arrange the letter trio cards to spell a variety of Christmas related words. Can you solve this Christmas challenge from Erich Friedman? Puzzle Instructions Combine the letter trios to spell out some words associated with Christmas. Each trio of letters will be used exactly once. For …
In this fun Thanksgiving word puzzle, you must carefully arrange the letter trio cards to spell a variety of Thanksgiving related words. Will you and your students be up to this Thanksgiving challenge?
Bring some spooky fun to your classroom or party with this fun Halloween triples word puzzle. Can you reassemble the trios of letters to form words related to Halloween? Puzzle Instructions Combine the letter trios to spell out some words associated with Halloween. Each trio of letters will be used exactly once. For example, COB …
How well do you know your math vocabulary? This Math Triples Puzzle will test your ability to piece together various three letter word fragments to create mathematical terms. Puzzle Instructions Combine the letter trios to spell out some words associated with mathematics. Each trio of letters will be used exactly once. Puzzle Inspiration This puzzle …
Back in September, I ran across this tweet from Penny Dell Puzzles. Change one letter in each word so that all five words have something in common: BLANK, BLOWN, GREET, MELLOW, and WRITE. Add another to the list that follows the pattern. I was amused by this puzzle, so I decided to put it up …
In this which side of the line letters puzzle, the challenge is to determine on which side of the line does the letter “r” go. I ran across this puzzle in The Big Book of Mind-Bending Puzzles by Terry Stickels and decided it would make a great puzzle to put up in my classroom. A …
While reorganizing my filing cabinets just before the end of the school year, I ran across a double letters puzzle that I had printed and laminated but never used with students. This had to be remedied! I added magnets on the back of each piece so it could be easily posted on the dry erase …
Solve this captivating island puzzle from Donald Knuth as you arrange the thirteen provided letters to trace out the names of each island on the grid.
Taking inspiration from Lisa Richardson, I decided to magnetize the puzzle pieces and place them on my dry erase board instead of laying them on a puzzle table like I have done in the past. Check out previous blog posts here and here. I’m super excited with the results of magnetizing these puzzles with disc …
Taking inspiration from Lisa Richardson, I decided to magnetize the puzzle pieces and place them on my dry erase board instead of laying them on a puzzle table like I have done in the past. I placed adhesive disc magnets on the back of each piece. Check out previous blog posts here and here. I’m …
Taking inspiration from Lisa Richardson, I decided to magnetize the puzzle pieces and place them on my dry erase board instead of laying them on a puzzle table like I have done in the past. I placed adhesive disc magnets on the back of each piece. Check out previous blog posts here and here. I’m …
Yesterday, I posted this word find puzzle for students to tackle on my whiteboard. This puzzle has absolutely zero mathematical connections, but I think it’s still a fun one to tackle. I’m excited to see what students do with this puzzle. The word find puzzle involves a grid of letters. You can start with any …
Today I’m excited to share this Hidden Animals Puzzle with you from Frank Tapson. This year, I am teaching 4 sections of Algebra 2 and 2 sections of Pre-Calculus. Having four sections of one subject is always interesting because I find that keeping four different classes at approximately the same spot in the curriculum to …
I want to share a new Double Letters Puzzle with you today. This whole potential strike business and the frustration of not knowing if I will be teaching next week or marching around the capitol building has left me extremely exhausted. As a result, my motivation to get blog posts written has almost disappeared. This …
Usually, my puzzle table features a math-y puzzle of sorts. This week is different. I’ve chosen a word/letter-based puzzle from Puzzle Box, Volume 2. I’ve posted plenty of puzzles on my blog from Puzzle Box, Volume 1 and Puzzle Box, Volume 3, so I decided it was finally time to show Volume 2 some love! …
Yesterday, I added the four seasons puzzle to our puzzle table. We’re currently working on a Valentine’s project that involves creating a Valentine for each teacher/staff member (total of 26) who works in our building (a combined middle school/high school). So, the puzzle table has been doubling as an arts/crafts table. If you look closely …
Just a quick puzzle post today to share the north east south west puzzle with you because it’s already past my bedtime! This has been a crazy week because I’ve been spending almost all of my spare time prepping for a 2.5 hour workshop I’m giving this Saturday on interactive notebooks. The participants will actually …