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Primary Logic Puzzles Sampler

Logic puzzles provide opportunities for students to develop skills in logical thinking, problem-solving, making inferences, drawing conclusions, recognizing similarities and differences, and comparing and contrasting. This freebie contains 3 different types of logic puzzles in both a PDF document and a link to a Google Slides™ document.

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Your students will love all of these fun and engaging ways to learn about money.

Fun & Engaging Ways to Teach Money

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These creative ideas for teaching biographies include graphic organizers to help students remember information from biographies and informational text.

3 Creative Ideas for Teaching Biographies Your Students Will Love

There is so much power in teaching our students about history using biographies. We can all learn from the success and failures of others. But

Gifted Girls: Strategies for Underachieving Gifted Students

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Teaching Logic to Elementary Students – The Why and How

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Students love to play games in the classroom. At least mine always have! However, the hardest part for me has been to combine learning and

PASSION PROJECTS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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MATH MINDSET: FOSTERING MATHEMATICAL MINDSETS IN YOUR CLASSROOM

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Perfect Square is a Perfect Book to Introduce Geometry

Recently I bought the book perfect square by Michael Hall. It is the story of a square who was perfectly happy, but throughout the week

KenKen – Great Math Puzzles to Challenge Your Students!

I have discovered an absolutely wonderful website called KenKen. People say KenKens are like Suduko puzzles on steroids. So exactly what is a KenKen? It’s