5 Fun Christmas Math Riddles and Brain Teasers for Grades 1-8
Math teachers often struggle to keep their students engaged during the weeks leading up to winter vacation.
This is a time when your students are extremely excited and anxious about celebrating the holidays and keeping their focus is challenging.
But instead of fighting against your students’ enthusiasm, you can channel it into meaningful learning experiences by incorporating fun holiday-themed Christmas math activities into your lesson plans this month.
And to save you some time, today I am sharing 5 Fun Christmas Math Riddles and Brain Teasers for students in grades 1-8 (with answers included)!
These Christmas Math Activities are a great supplement to our super popular 12 Days of Christmas Math Challenges and 10 Free Christmas Math Activities for Your Kids.
All of the math riddles, puzzles, and brain teasers below are from holiday versions of activities from our best-selling 101 Math Riddles, Puzzles, and Kids Ages 10+!
5 Fun Christmas Math Riddles for Kids:
1.) Christmas Ornaments
Answer: Nick has 9 ornaments in total: 3 blue, 3 green, and 3 red.
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2.) Buddy and Hermey
Answer: When Buddy is 100, Hermey will be 97.
3.) How Much for Hot Cocoa?
Answer: Hot Cocoa costs $1.40 and a cookie costs $0.40.
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4.) Holiday Spending Spree
Answer: Dasher spent $120, Prancer spent $240, and Cupid spent $360
5.) How Many Squares?
Answer: There are 14 total squares (15 if you count the square at the center of the bow on the wreath)
All of today’s math riddles and brain teasers are holiday versions of the puzzles shared in our best-selling workbook: 101 Math Riddles, Puzzles, and Kids Ages 10+!
Here are some samples from the book:
101 Math Riddles, Puzzles, and Brain Teasers for Kids Ages 10+! is now available as a PDF download. You can get yours today by clicking here.
Did I miss your favorite math holiday riddle for kids? Share your thoughts, questions, and suggestions in the comments section below!
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By Anthony Persico
Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.