Perplexors: Higher Order Thinking prep +Reading and math Skills

Perplexors are word puzzles that require close reading and or math skills plus deductive reasoning to solve the problems.

​ Introduce Perplexors the first weeks of school next year as group activities, then you can incorporate them into your lesson plans throughout the year any time you need:

 An Additional Center Activity in your mix
AN EMerGency sub Assignment
A dispersal Assigment
A team-building Activity to practicE in Groups
Enrichment Assignment for Compacted students
An Extra Assigment for Odd Schedule days, etc:

 Since my last lesson idea post was very standardized EOG prep, I thought this was a good time to mention two math and reading skills resources you can incorporate into class that will help your student not just with standardized testing skills but also with logic and higher order thinking skills that will help them well past the time their standardized test taking days are over.

Ms. Lyttle and Ms. Malone saw Perplexors in use during their PL visit to Park Road Montessori's sixth grade.

Perplexors offer free samples and here is the Link To Purchase  if you like the samples. Specific types of perplexors such as Grid perplexors, Venn Diagaram perplexors and more books are available on Amazon and elsewhere.

Perplexor Tutorials are available on Youtube:

Basic level Math Perplexor Sample:

bakers_get_the_bues_perplexor.pdf
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Expert Level Math Perplexor Sample:

expert_level_math_perplexor.pdf
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Basic level Perplexor sample

basic_level_perplexor_dog_race.pdf
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Level D Perplexor Sample 

report_card_fun_perplexor_level_d.pdf
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Here's an embedded perplexor for you to see:

starving_artists_perplexor.pdf
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