This download is for those students and their teachers who enjoy solving somewhat twisted, definitely unusual (aka “tricked out”) word math problems. An equal combination of language arts and basic math skills. Participants must begin with common data, such as

Add BACK WORDS FOR BACK TO SCHOOL to your bag of tricks for getting the new school year off to a happy start. First, is a two-part activity that requires students to interpret clues and identify fifty terms or phrases

       This back-to-school brain teaser doubles as a vocabulary builder. Students must interpret definitions and clues to identify words that contain the sound ooh, such as school rule, cool, and classroom. Answers to the first set of forty items

  Phrases, titles, product names, and exaggerations constructed with numbers–we quote them, hear them, see them, but seldom stop to think how useful they are. In this brain teaser, they are the stars. Treat your students to a view of

Howl-o-ween Puns is mostly for fun, but learning is also an intended benefit in this free download. Students can check out the condition of their punnybones by reading Halloween-related riddles and spotting the pun in the collection of possible answers.

  How does one change “grim lips” into “pilgrims?” With anagrams, of course. Thanksgiving Anagrams challenges students to rearrange the letters of some rather strange terms to create ordinary words and phrases associated with Thanksgiving. This free download is organized

Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students must wade through the verbal muck and identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes–all written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into