Winter Math Activities and Puzzles

Students will enjoy using a set of 12 pentominoes to build the shape of a penguin.

This Snowflake puzzle is one of my favorite winter puzzles. Can you place the snowflakes on the grid so that each row and column contain an even (not odd) number of snowflakes?

Can you find the nine hidden words related to winter in this word path grid puzzle?

Can you place each of the winter words into this free printable Winter Fill-In Word Puzzle?

Math with P Nik shares an excellent snow globe math puzzle involving snow people that must be reassembled so that the sum of the numbers in the snow person’s body equals the number printed on their hat.

In this geometric snowman puzzle from Ed Southall, you are challenged to find the radius of the smallest circle which makes up the snowman’s head.

Luke Walsh shares an image of a winter-themed giftbag which makes an excellent WODB (Which One Doesn’t Belong?) Puzzle.

Which snow person does not belong?

Ilona Vashchyshyn uses paper snowflakes to create a fun WODB (Which One Doesn’t Belong?) Puzzle.

This would be fun to do with student-created snowflakes.

NOMA Math shares a WODB puzzle with 4 snowflake clipart images.

Which snowflake doesn’t belong?

Students must graph the given ordered pairs and connect them in the order given. When the points are connected, a mystery picture will be revealed that students must then build using a standard set of tangrams.

This puzzle combines two of my favorite things: math activities and puzzles!

Turn your classroom into a snowball fight. Students will be begging to solve more equations so they can throw more snowballs.

Tina Cardone suggests using the process of teaching students to create paper snowflakes to teach or review geometric vocabulary terms.

Stephen Caviness has his students practice their compass and straightedge skills by constructing beautiful snowflake images.

Have a snow day? Challenge your students to make and photograph “snow angles” instead of “snow angels.”

Austin James embraces the wintery weather by assigning students to make snowman art using conic sections in Desmos.

Make practicing slope fields fun with this snowman-themed slope field assignment for calculus!

Add some fun to your snow day or classroom with this winter-themed dots and boxes game.

Bring some winter fun to your classroom with this seasonal version of the classic dots and boxes game.