Winter Math Activities and Puzzles
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Looking to celebrate the winter season in your math classroom? Check out this collection of winter math activities and puzzles to bring some wintry fun inside!
Winter Math Activities
This post contains winter math activities for elementary, middle school math, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalculus, and Calculus.
Elementary Math
Winter Math Equation Puzzle Bulletin Boards
Leah TenEyck highlights a brilliant way to display puzzles to capture student interest.
Middle School Math and Algebra
Winter Mystery Coordinate Plane Activity with Tangram Puzzle
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!
Solving Equations Snowball Fight Activity
Turn your classroom into a snowball fight. Students will be begging to solve more equations so they can throw more snowballs.
Geometry
Reviewing Geometry Vocabulary with Snowflakes
Tina Cardone suggests using the process of teaching students to create paper snowflakes to teach or review geometric vocabulary terms.
Snowflake Geometric Construction Project
Stephen Caviness has his students practice their compass and straightedge skills by constructing beautiful snowflake images.
Snow Angle Assignment
Have a snow day? Challenge your students to make and photograph “snow angles” instead of “snow angels.”
Algebra 2 and Precalculus
Conic Section Snowman Art
Austin James embraces the wintery weather by assigning students to make snowman art using conic sections in Desmos.
Calculus
Winter Slope Field Activity
Make practicing slope fields fun with this snowman-themed slope field assignment for calculus!
Winter Puzzles
If you’ve been around my blog long enough, you will know that I LOVE math puzzles. I hope you will enjoy this collection of winter math puzzles.
Hands-On Puzzles
Logic Puzzles
Mazes
Word Puzzles
Miscellaneous Puzzles
Snow Globe Math 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.
Snowman Geometry Puzzle
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.
Snowman WODB Puzzle
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?
Snowflake WODB Puzzle 1
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.
Snowflake WODB Puzzle 2
NOMA Math shares a WODB puzzle with 4 snowflake clipart images.
Which snowflake doesn’t belong?
Snowman Language Puzzle
Miss Hughes shares an excellent little puzzle involving the snowman language.
Winter Games
Other Fun Winter Activities
Desmos Snowflake Magnets
Eniola Ajayi takes the snowflakes generated by students with Steve Phelps’ Desmos Snowflake Generator and turns them into beautiful snowflake magnets for students to keep.
Snow Day Prediction Calendar
If you teach in an area that has snow days, you might want to challenge students to predict when the first snow day of the year will be like Liz Mastalio.
Borax Snowflakes
Christmas might be over, but winter is still the perfect time to make borax snowflakes. Pictures do not do these sparkly snowflakes justice!
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!
