Problem Solving Games and Activities
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Problem Solving Activities
Copyright©2005-15. Council Rock School District.
(Site designed by Charyl Kerns Hills & supported by Council Rock's Math Specialists)
Great activities for the Standards for Mathematical Practice.6/17/15
Skyscraper Caper | Holiday fun from DreamBox. |
SEEDS Together | Help Beau in Ghana make a transformation. |
Construction Fall + | Plan ahead to make structures fall. |
Sandcastle Builder | Test your building skills without the mess of sand. |
Surf's Up | Primary maze. |
$100 Word Calculator | Continue the search from Dana's Fun Night. GO DANA!! |
Animal See Saw | Don't tip the scale in this Count ON strategy game for 2. |
Lemonade Stand | Test your business sense in honor of Alex's Lemonade Stand. |
Math Cats | Great math thinking games. |
Rush Hour | M. Riedel's version of this logic sliding puzzle. |
Traffic Jam | Help people exchange places from Math Forum. |
Wally's Stock Ticker | Learn about stocks. |
Wonderopolis | Each day a new question is posed. |
Classics | |
Chinese Checkers | |
Illuminations Concentration | Multiple math concept versions. |
Copy Cat Jack! | New spin on Simon. |
Hare & Hounds | French board game. |
IQ | Classic solitaire peg game. |
Marbles | Classic strategy game with a new twist. |
Memory Concentration | Memory concentration game. |
Nine Men's Morris | Classic strategy game. |
Pegjumper | Classic solitaire peg game. |
Senet | From the British Museum-an ancient Egyptian game. |
Simon | Classic memory game. |
Summer Slide | Timed summer slide puzzle. |
Snakes & Ladders | Classic counting board game for 1 or 2. |
Sokoban | Strategy game from Japan. |
SET | A game of attributes & visual perception. |
New York Times SET | 4 new puzzles daily. |
Quiddler | Short word game. |
Xactika | Card game of predictions & estimation. |
Bridges | |
Brainbasher Bridges | Daily logic puzzle connect the islands. |
Chess | |
Chess | |
Chess Boss | Interactive chess against opponents. |
Hangman Chess | Play to learn chess terms. |
Connect 4 | |
Connect 4 | Electronic version. |
Dots Game | |
Dots Math Game | Connect dots to close off squares. |
Invent! | |
Inventors' Workshop | Log in at PBS to create inventions. |
I Was Wondering | Science games promoting women scientists. |
Kakooma | |
Greg Tang's | 5 challenging levels with various operations. |
Kakuro | |
Brain Basher Kakuro | Daily timed puzzle with combinations given. |
Kakuro Online | 4 challenging levels to play on the computer. |
Kakuro | Another interactive version with 3 levels. |
Kenkuro | |
KenKen | NY Times 6 new puzzles daily. |
KenKen Classroom | Ken Ken up to 9 x 9. |
Mathdoku | More Ken Ken with 4 levels. |
Logic | |
Frog Puzzle | Devise a strategy to cross frogs. |
Goat Crossing | Safely cross the goats. |
Guess My Number | Primary number riddle game. |
Pico.. | Guess the number with Pico, Fermi, Bagels. |
Puzzler's Paradise | Interactive logic problems. |
Mancala | |
Mancala Snails | Challenge a friend or computer with this African strategy game. |
Mancala Online | Version from Math Playgroud. |
Nim | |
Disc Nim | Nim with 36 discs. |
Nim | Challenge the computer with 16 Nim playing pieces. |
Proton Nim | Nim with protons. Try on various levels. |
Matchstick Nim | Try 3 levels of Nim with 21 matchsticks. Reversed versions can also be played. |
Scaredy Cats | Nim with cats in a 4 x 4 array. Created by W. Petti. |
Numbrix | A consecutive number logic puzzle. |
Pentominoes | |
Pentominoes | Electronic version. |
Pentomino Challenges | Electronic pentomino puzzles. |
Pentomino Square | Create a square with pentominoes. |
Pic-a-Pix | |
Pic-a-Pix | Logic puzzles from Conceptis. |
Shikaku | |
How-To | Tutorial to help. |
Shikaku Room | Create your own puzzle & solve. |
Sudoku | |
Count On Sudoku | 5 levels of daily puzzles. |
JigSawdoku | Use color in this 6 x 6 puzzle. |
Kids Shape Sudoku | Printable shape Sudoku puzzles. |
Sudoku | 4 challenging levels to play on the computer or print out. |
Sudoku Spoiler | Solves any Sudoku puzzle & times itself. |
Tetris | |
Math Cats Tetris | Another electronic version. |
Toothpick Puzzles | |
Learning Tree Puzzles | Matchstick (toothpick) puzzles from the UK. |
Venn Diagrams | |
Oops Hoops | I SPY challenge with hoops. |
Yahtzee | |
Electronic Yahtzee | Solitary interactive version. |
Problems & Puzzles | |
AIMS Puzzle Corner | Try a variety of puzzles here. |
Bedtime Math | Great daily differentiated problems for the love of math. |
Creativity Challenges | PBS Parent Creativity Challenges. |
Figure This! | Math challenges by topic. |
Kidprintables Brain Teasers | Ages 8 and up. |
Math Olympiad | New problem monthly. |
Mathwire | Problem resources for gr. 3 & 4. |
nrich | Monthly enriching games, puzzles, articles, etc. |
Number Fix | Great writing for meaning ideas. |
Math Contest | Math Contest from Ole Miss. |
Math or Magic | |
Amazing Age | An age card trick. |
Calendar Magic | Learn a calendar trick. |
Magic Gopher | Decide math or magic. |
Mysterious Mind Reader | Follow online directions for some "magic." |
Problem Solving Activities
Copyright©2005-14. Council Rock School District.
(Site designed by Charyl Kerns Hills & supported by Council Rock's Math Specialists)
Great activities for the Standards for Mathematical Practice.6/20/14
Skyscraper Caper + | Holiday fun from DreamBox. |
SEEDS Together | Help Beau in Ghana make a transformation. |
Construction Fall + | Plan ahead to make structures fall. |
Sandcastle Builder | Test your building skills without the mess of sand. |
Surf's Up | Primary maze. |
$100 Word Calculator | Continue the search from Dana's Fun Night. GO DANA!! |
Animal See Saw | Don't tip the scale in this Count ON strategy game for 2. |
Lemonade Stand | Test your business sense in honor of Alex's Lemonade Stand. |
Math Cats | Great math thinking games. |
Rush Hour | M. Riedel's version of this logic sliding puzzle. |
Dr. M's Rush Hour | Another version of this classic. |
Another Rush Hour | More Rush Hour. |
Traffic Jam | Help people exchange places from Math Forum. |
Wally's Stock Ticker | Learn about stocks. |
Classics | |
Chinese Checkers | |
Illuminations Concentration | Multiple math concept versions. |
Copy Cat Jack! | New spin on Simon. |
Hare & Hounds | French board game. |
IQ | Classic solitaire peg game. |
Marbles | Classic strategy game with a new twist. |
Memory Concentration | Memory concentration game. |
Nine Men's Morris + | Classic strategy game. |
Pegjumper + | Classic solitaire peg game. |
Senet | From the British Museum-an ancient Egyptian game. |
Simon | Classic memory game. |
Summer Slide | Timed summer slide puzzle. |
Snakes & Ladders | Classic counting board game for 1 or 2. |
Sokoban | Strategy game from Japan. |
SET | A game of attributes & visual perception. |
New York Times SET | 4 new puzzles daily. |
Quiddler | Short word game. |
Xactika | Card game of predictions & estimation. |
Bridges | |
Brainbasher Bridges | Daily logic puzzle connect the islands. |
Chess | |
Chess | |
Chess Boss | Interactive chess against opponents. |
Hangman Chess | Play to learn chess terms. |
Connect 4 | |
Connect 4 | Electronic version. |
Dots Game | |
Dots Math Game + | Connect dots to close off squares. |
Invent! | |
Inventors' Workshop | Log in at PBS to create inventions. |
I Was Wondering | Science games promoting women scientists. |
Kakooma | |
Greg Tang's + | 5 challenging levels with various operations. |
Kakuro | |
Brain Basher Kakuro | Daily timed puzzle with combinations given. |
Kakuro Online | 4 challenging levels to play on the computer. |
Kakuro | Another interactive version with 3 levels. |
Kenkuro | |
KenKen | NY Times 6 new puzzles daily. |
KenKen Classroom + | Ken Ken up to 9 x 9. |
Mathdoku | More Ken Ken with 4 levels. |
Logic | |
Frog Puzzle | Devise a strategy to cross frogs. |
Goat Crossing | Safely cross the goats. |
Guess My Number | Primary number riddle game. |
Pico.. | Guess the number with Pico, Fermi, Bagels. |
Puzzler's Paradise | Interactive logic problems. |
Mancala | |
Mancala Snails | Challenge a friend or computer with this African strategy game. |
Mancala Online | Version from Math Playgroud. |
Nim | |
Disc Nim | Nim with 36 discs. |
Nim | Challenge the computer with 16 Nim playing pieces. |
Proton Nim | Nim with protons. Try on various levels. |
Matchstick Nim | Try 3 levels of Nim with 21 matchsticks. Reversed versions can also be played. |
Scaredy Cats | Nim with cats in a 4 x 4 array. Created by W. Petti. |
Numbrix + | A consecutive number logic puzzle. |
Pentominoes | |
Pentominoes | Electronic version. |
Pentomino Challenges | Electronic pentomino puzzles. |
Pentomino Square | Create a square with pentominoes. |
Pic-a-Pix | |
Pic-a-Pix | Logic puzzles from Conceptis. |
Shikaku | |
How-To + | Tutorial to help. |
Shikaku Room + | Create your own puzzle & solve. |
Sudoku | |
Count On Sudoku | 5 levels of daily puzzles. |
JigSawdoku | Use color in this 6 x 6 puzzle. |
Kids Shape Sudoku | Printable shape Sudoku puzzles. |
Sudoku | 4 challenging levels to play on the computer or print out. |
Sudoku Spoiler | Solves any Sudoku puzzle & times itself. |
Tetris | |
Math Cats Tetris | Another electronic version. |
Toothpick Puzzles | |
Learning Tree Puzzles | Matchstick (toothpick) puzzles from the UK. |
Venn Diagrams | |
Oops Hoops | I SPY challenge with hoops. |
Yahtzee | |
Electronic Yahtzee | Solitary interactive version. |
Problems & Puzzles | |
AIMS Puzzle Corner | Try a variety of puzzles here. |
Bedtime Math | Great daily differentiated problems for the love of math. |
Creativity Challenges | PBS Parent Creativity Challenges. |
Figure This! + | Math challenges by topic. |
Kidprintables Brain Teasers | Ages 8 and up. |
Math Olympiad+ | New problem monthly. |
Mathwire | Problem resources for gr. 3 & 4. |
nrich | Monthly enriching games, puzzles, articles, etc. |
Number Fix | Great writing for meaning ideas. |
Math Contest | Math Contest from Ole Miss. |
Math or Magic | |
Amazing Age | An age card trick. |
Calendar Magic | Learn a calendar trick. |
Magic Gopher | Decide math or magic. |
Mysterious Mind Reader | Follow online directions for some "magic." |