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The Best Math Brain Teasers

Math brain teasers are a fun way to encourage critical thinking skills, logic and problem solving. Here are links to the best books and websites.

Check out these books:
755045: Math Brain Teasers, Level 1, Daily Warm-Ups Math Brain Teasers, Level 1, Daily Warm-Ups
By Susan Conover / Walch Education

Your teenagers wouldn't run a marathon without stretching their muscles first. These activities and brain-teasers help their minds warm up---so they can confidently tackle whatever comes next! The 180 quick challenges reinforce concepts including geometry; money; measurement; data analysis, statistics, combinations, and probability; plus fractions, ratios, decimals, and percents. Answer key included. 205 reproducible pages, softcover.

22219: Math Problem-Solving Brain Teasers Math Problem-Solving Brain Teasers
By Teacher Created Resources

Intriguing activities supplement classroom lessons while stretching students' minds.

913091: Have Fun with Math Have Fun with Math
By Louis Grant Brandes / Walch Education

These reproducible puzzles, picture graphs, mazes, brain teasers, puns, coded messages, and number odditites give you an abundant supply of enrichment materials. The activities will delight your students and make them want to do math.

Topics in this book cover:

  • whole numbers
  • fractions
  • decimals
  • powers and roots
  • metric measures
  • perimeters, areas, and volumes
  • miscellaneous questions, problems, and tests
  • pre-algebra
Use these activities to complement your regular class work, for review lessons, as sound substitute materials, as class rewards, for extra-credit assignments, and to make productive use of spare moments of class time. A bibliography and answers are included. Grades 7-12.

If you are interested in online brain teasers, check out these links:

Braingle Brain Teasers- General math, rated by difficulty level and fun level.

AnotherBraingle Brain Teasers- Probability problems, rated by difficulty and fun levels.

Internet 4 Classrooms- Links and descriptions for brain teaser websites.


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