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Math Contest - Ole' Miss
Grades
3 to 12
In the Classroom
Include this link on your teacher web page or start class with it each week on a projector, giving extra credit to those whose names appear on the web page by the weekend!You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Analytical Problems And Puzzles - folj.com
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
If you don't have time to spend on these in class as often as you would like, print out a single lateral thinking or logic problem each week for your bulletin board and let the students argue about it all week. Or include this link on your teacher website for the students to access outside of class. This site is a life-saver for your study hall the day before a vacation!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World Geography Quizzes - Sheppard Software
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Be sure to put a link for these online games and quizzes on your teacher web page for the summer and throughout the school year. Students can use them to practice for your geography quizzes or as extra challenges. The different levels of dificulty will allow you to differentiate your instruction easily.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Matchstick Puzzles - zefrank.com
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
This is a great find for gifted students. Share the site on an interactive whiteboard or projector, and allow students to work on the puzzles in teams. Have the teams compete to see who can solve the puzzles the fastest, or complete the most. This site is tricky, but is an excellent enrichment activity for a unit on logic or geometry.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Random Sudoku
Grades
7 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Scrabble
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
This "just for fun" activity can be utilized as a meaningful reward for completing class work early. Channel students to this site for some vocabulary building during down-time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mankala - Roger E. Critchlow, Jr.
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Add this mind-stretching game of strategy to a unit on African history and culture. A nice activity to add to a celebration of Black History Month.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Ultimate Puzzle Site
Grades
4 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Jig Zone - jigzone.com
Grades
1 to 12In the Classroom
Combine a brain-warming activity with a bit of review, and create your own jig-saws for students to solve! First, access the section entitled "Turn your photos into puzzles," and select an image pertinent to a specific unit and upload it to the site. Once the jigsaw puzzle has been created, have students open the puzzle on individual computers and compete to see who can get the best time putting the image back together! The best images to use would be diagrams, or model images of a particular object. This site works amazingly well for science classes were students need to be familiar with specific images. An example would be have anatomy students re-construct skeletal images, etc. A clever way to get their minds thinking!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Word Morph - WordPlays.com
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Use this site as a learning station for students who may finish work early, and need something productive to do to avoid bothering other students. To make it competitive, keep a record board near the computer where students can log their high scores. Competing against each other may make students more interested to play for a new minutes at a time, and less likely to disturb others in testing situations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SAT Preparation Center - The College Board
Grades
7 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Thinking Machine 4 - Martin Wattenberg
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8 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Hangman
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4 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Nrich - Cambridge University
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1 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NPR Weekly Puzzle - National Public Radio
Grades
6 to 45Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cryptography - Historical Ciphers - Trinity College, Hartford
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Use this site as a quick lesson during a history or statistics class, in an attempt to teach students about how some ciphers were solved and how it affected history. Peruse a few of the ciphers as a class on the interactive whiteboard, as a challenge have students try to make or solve one on their own! Students can present their ciphers on the interactive whiteboard, and try to stump their peers!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Anyday
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
This site would make for a great creative writing project for students in a high school english class. Have students search for their birth date, and find one person on that list that they can focus their paper on. Have students research their historical person, eventually writing a analytical paper about the similarities and differences between their own life and that of their selected person. Teachers can focus more on similarities to make it more difficult and interesting - but it is a great way to get students thinking about comparing and contrasting.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Engineering Brain Ticklers -Tau Beta Pi - Tau Beta Pi
Grades
9 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Archimedes' Laboratory Puzzles
Grades
6 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MathsChallenge
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
These problems could be used in class as extra challenges or online rewards for completed assignments.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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