And if your brain gets tired, there are a variety of other goodies available, too. This puzzle looked easy when I first saw it in the newsletter from Everett Kaser. These puzzles combine humor, inspiration and fun to teach creativity. Develop your natural creative talent by enhancing lateral thinking skills as well as your ability to utilize inspiration and insight. The Houghton Mifflin Company provides Brain Teasers for different age groups and an article briefly describing how brain teasers and puzzles relate to math and how solving puzzles helps develop mathematical awareness as well as logical reasoning and analytical thinking skills.
Puzzle difficulty ranges from reasonably easy to fiendishly difficult.
Answers are provided. This site has a few interesting puzzles to try and a couple links to other puzzle places. Play these games and try to win. As you play, you will be developing tools for understanding numbers. Solving Task Centres Designed to assist teachers and students in problem solving, this site contains general information, reference materials, discussion list subscription info and some terrific puzzles from the Curriculum Corporation.