Number puzzles, spatial/visual puzzles, cryptograms, Sudoku, Kokuro, logic puzzles, and word games like Frame Games are all a great way to teach math and problem-solving skills to elementary and middle school students. In these two new collections, puzzle master Terry Stickels provides puzzles and brain games that range from simple to challenging and are organized by grade level and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) content areas. Each book offers over 300 brain games that will help students learn core math concepts and develop critical thinking skills. The books include a wide range of puzzle types and cover a variety of math topics, from fractions and geometry to probability and algebra.
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1. Below is a partial Magic Square using the numbers 1-16. The rows, columns, and diagonals must each total the same sum. Place the final four numbers in the appropriate squares.
2. Try your luck at these three analogy puzzles. An analogy compares two things to two others. Here is an example:
This is read as “9 is to 10 as 81 is to . . .” and the answer is 100.
Now find the missing numbers or words in the following analogies:
3. What is the missing number in the sequence below?
4. The numbers in the center of the pyramids are related to the numbers at each corner. What is the missing number in the middle of the last pyramid?
5. Alphametics are puzzles where each letter stands for a different digit. Here are two alphametics. No word can begin with a zero. We’ve started you out with some of the letters.
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6. Tom walks half a distance at 4 mph and runs back the other half at 12 mph. What is his average speed for the entire trip?
7. If 32 people were to enter a statewide singles tennis tournament, how many matches would be played, including the championship?
8. Below is a sequence where the difference between each successive pair of numbers is 6. What is the 500th number in this sequence?
9. The seven sets of numbers below all have a certain logic that is the same in all seven numbers. See if you can determine the relationship and come up with the final digit of the last number.
a. 1 3 8 2 1
b. 5 1 3 4 2
c. 6 0 0 2 7
d. 9 2 0 4 0
e. 2 5 1 1 6
f. 4 4 4 0 3
g. 7 0 3 1 ?
10. In a laboratory, two sub-atomic particles are being crashed into each other as part of an experiment. Particle #1 is moving directly toward particle #2 at 15 mers a second. Particle #2 is moving directly toward particle #1 at a speed of 25 mers a second. The particles are 1,000 mers apart when they begin moving. What will be the distance between them 1 second before they crash?
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11. Find the hidden word or phrase.
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