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Einstein is often quoted as having said "If I have an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes." Clearly Einstein understood how to attack puzzling problems. As teachers we face a host of puzzles on a daily basis. Every student we teach, thanks to their idiosyncrasies presents a unique puzzle. The interactions between students further complicates things. Our goals for our learners, their learning needs, the demands of the curriculum, pressures from beyond the classroom all result in puzzles for us to manage and to solve.

# Create your own puzzles. # Play your own and common puzzles. # Send puzzles to friends. # Put created puzzles on your web pages.

Mathematics game from Maryland Public Television designed for middle-school pre-algebra students. The protagonist, a kid who's just had his beloved pet abducted by Bigfoot and taken to a subterranean food mill, has to solve a series of math-based puzzles to get him back. The puzzles focus on proportions, ratios, fractions, and variables.

A number puzzle challenge. Add, subtract, multiply or divide to reach a target number. Good for problem solving. Colud be used on SMARTboard or IWB.

Click on the links below to access the Smartboard Lessons Number and Number Sense Computation and Estimation Measurement Geometry Probability and Statistics Patterns, Functions, & Algebra Problem Solving Puzzles Utilities

Three pages of interactive world maps made into a jigsaw. Great for the white board.

TaskMagic is a suite of authoring tools for creating interactive lesson content. It is a really quick and easy way for teachers to create a whole range of presentation and practice activities in just a few minutes.

This is a great game and really makes you think! It would be wonderful for pairs of younger students to work on together or as a whiteboard, whole class activity.

design a rollercoaster game