May Language Thinking

Posted May 3, 2024

  Imagine you live in a world with only 20 words. You can use these 20 words as much as you want, but you cannot use any other words at all. In the comments, list the 20 words you’d pick.  Explain why you’d choose those words.    

May Critical Thinking: BREAKOUT – Tweet All About It

Posted May 1, 2024

The birds are busy getting ready for spring. It has been a long winter, and it is time to have some fun. They are so excited, and they are all tweeting at once. CLICK HERE to help them sort out the tweets and break out the Spring!    

May Creative Thinking

Posted May 1, 2024

If you send someone a single rose you are sending a message of love. You can send all kinds of messages with flowers. Florigraphy is the language of flowers. Hundreds of flowers and trees have been given meanings. Here are some of them. Imagine that you are making a bouquet to describe someone you look […]

May Math Thinking – Grade 7/8

Posted May 1, 2024

Sitting on a train, Aman looks at the train numbers on his two tickets. If he adds the two numbers he gets 81. One of the numbers is 3 more than the other number. If he multiplies the last two digits of the two numbers what does he get?

May Math Thinking – Grade 7/8

Posted May 1, 2024

A camping club took a ten-day camping trip in the mountains. Twelve people signed up for the trip. The club members purchased supplies for the 12 hikers with the understanding that supplies would be divided equally among the twelve on a daily basis. On the morning the hike was to begin 3 additional people joined […]

April Critical Thinking: BREAKOUT – Witty and the Seasons

Posted April 4, 2024

Witty is exploring the seasons with STEAM in mind – Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics. CLICK HERE to try this BREAKOUT!  

April Math Thinking – Grade 7/8 – Locker Drama

Posted April 1, 2024

A school with 3400 students has 3400 lockers, all of which are closed. The 3400 students start down the hall one at a time. The first student opens every locker. The second student closes all the lockers that are multiples of 2. The third student changes (closes an open locker or opens a closed one) […]

April Math Thinking: April Fool’s Day Puzzle

Posted April 1, 2024

In the sum pictured above, the digit 1 is still a numeral. However, every other digit has been replaced by a letter. What is the original sum? (This isn’t an April Fool’s Day prank- there is one valid answer to this question!)  

April Language Thinking – Grade 7/8

Posted April 1, 2024

You have been chosen to make the final decision about where your end-of-the-year class trip will be. What destination would you choose for your class? Write a persuasive paragraph convincing your classmates that your choice is best.    

April Math Thinking – Grade 7/8

Posted April 1, 2024

Three grade eight Math students were given the following problem: A three-digit number 2A4 is added to 329 and gives 5B3. If 5B3 is divisible by 3, then what is the largest possible value of A? One student thought A could be 1. Another student thought A was 5. The last student thought A was […]

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