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Logic Puzzle 1: Mystery Math Ball Jennifer has receieved an invitation to a party, but she doesn't know where or when it is, or who is giving it. Use logic and deductive reasoning to discover the secret of the invitation in this mini-unit. Challenging (but not impossible!), this 4 page puzzle includes an explanatory answer sheet.
Experiment: Tower Building Challenge (upper elem/ middle) Rules and task description for building a tower from simple household materials. This is a great science/math combo lesson: students explore properties of balance and strength and try to balance a budget!
Math Rules: Properties The commutative, associative, and distributive properties are explained with examples.
Math: Addition Grids - Integers 1 Add positive and negative numbers vertically and horizontally to complete ten nine-square grids.
Word Problems: Logic and Math (middle school) Three pages of complex math problems draw on critical thinking skills and logic in order to find the correct solution.



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Logic Puzzle 2: School Rules! Logic puzzles help improve cognitive skills and deductive reasoning. Challenging (but not impossible!) brain exercises. Includes an answer sheet.
Logic Puzzle 3: A Bull in the China Shop Logic puzzles help improve cognitive skills and deductive reasoning. Challenging (but not impossible!) brain exercises. Includes an answer sheet.
Math: Addition Grids - Integers 3 Add positive and negative numbers vertically and horizontally to complete ten nine-square grids.
Math: Addition Grids - Integers 4 Add positive and negative numbers vertically and horizontally to complete ten nine-square grids.
Math: Addition Grids - Integers 5 Add positive and negative numbers vertically and horizontally to complete ten nine-square grids.
Worksheets: Math and Logic (upper elementary) "Carl, Joe, and Greg buy lunch. A hamburger costs $3, a hot dog costs $2, and a salad costs $2.50. Read the details and decide: Who ate what?" Use math and reasoning to solve the problems on these four pages.
Board Game: Train Addition (primary) -b/w Match the math problems (with sums to 15) to the answers to win the game.
Board Game: Train Addition (primary) -color Match the math problems (with sums to 15) to the answers to win the game.
Word Problems: Medieval Math (upper elem) "For lunch at the Renaissance Fair, Tyler and Amanda each buy a turkey leg and an apple dumpling. Each food item costs $3.50. How much do their lunches cost altogether?"
Word Problems: Cowboy Addition (upper elem) "Cowboy Tom helped at a roundup. He earned $1.50 for every cow he caught. The first week, he caught 99 cows. The second week he caught 273. How many did he catch altogether?" Five addition problems.
Word Problems: Cowboy Division (upper elem) "Cowboy Tom worked from seven in the morning until three in the afternoon yesterday building two miles of fence. He was paid $48. What was his hourly wage?"
Word Problems: Cowboy Multiplication (upper elem) "Cowboy Jake is afraid of rattlesnakes. He sees a lot of them on the ranch where he lives. In fact, he sees an average of thirty every year. About how many has he seen in the nine years he has lived on the ranch?"
Worksheets: Math and Logic (upper elem/middle) "Reggie baby-sits for three families. Each family has a different number of children. Read the details and decide: How many children does each family have?" Use math and reasoning to solve 12 problems.
Word Problems: Cowboy Subtraction (upper elem) "Cowboy Jake is competing in a rodeo. In the last event, a bull kicks him in the arm and breaks it, but he still wins $144 in all. How much does he have left after he pays a doctor $66 to put his arm in a cast?"
Math: Addition Grids - Integers 2 Add positive and negative numbers vertically and horizontally to complete ten nine-square grids.
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