Puzzle Talks are a great way to bring ST Math into your classroom and engage students in mathematical discourse and problem solving! Puzzle Talks focus on student thinking, strategy discussion, and mathematical connections. Each Puzzle Talk centers on one ST Math game.
Before introducing a Puzzle Talk to students, take time to review the Puzzle Talk Teacher Overview. This guide will show you how to use the Puzzle Talk Facilitation Guide and identify engagement strategies to support student discourse. For additional resources (such as a planner, standards correlation, etc.), visit this ST Math Puzzle Talk Resources page. Learn more and be sure to check out Focus On: Puzzle Talks in the ST Math Academy.
Puzzle Talks are getting a fresh new look! You will notice that some of the links below have an asterisk beside them, indicating that those puzzles have not been updated yet. Please continue to use these Puzzle Talks and, as they get updated, they will be revised on this site.
To do a Puzzle Talk find a lesson below, then sign in to your teacher account and bring up the game in ST Math.
Kindergarten
- Bird Expression Subtraction Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Bouncing Shoes with Numbers Puzzle Talk*
- Bouncing Shoes to 10 Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Bouncing Shoes Puzzle Talk*
- Composite Shapes Puzzle Talk*
- How Many Legs? Puzzle Talk*
- Match Shape Puzzle Talk*
- More, Less Parachute Puzzle Talk*
- Partners Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Push Box Addition Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Push Box Subtraction Puzzle Talk*
- Ten Frame Counting Puzzle Talk*
- Ten Frame Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Tug Boat Puzzle Talk*
First Grade
- Addition and Subtraction on the Number Line Puzzle Talk*
- Bar Graph Bridge Puzzle Talk*
- Bouncing Shoes with Numbers Puzzle Talk
- Bouncing Shoes Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Building Blocks Puzzle Talk*
- Pie Monster Addition Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Pie Monster Subtraction Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Push Box Symbolic Puzzle Talk*
- Push Box Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
Second Grade
- Create Multiple Rectangles Puzzle Talk*
- Fruit Monster Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- How Many Petals? Puzzle Talk*
- Missing Addend Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Number Line to 100 Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Number Line Trap Puzzle Talk*
- Time on a Line Puzzle Talk*
- Toll Bridge Puzzle Talk*
- Tug Boat Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
Third Grade
- Estimate Fractions on the Number Line Puzzle Talk*
- Equal Areas Puzzle Talk*
- Fair Sharing Symbolic Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Fraction Trap Puzzle Talk*
- Fraction Bricks Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Fruit Monster Puzzle Talk*
- JiJi Cycle Basket Puzzle Talk*
- Leg Drape Symbolic Puzzle Talk*
- Match Fraction Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Number Funnels Highest Place Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Number Funnels Tens Place Puzzle Talk*
- Fraction Order Fill Puzzle Talk*
- Perimeter Select Puzzle Talk*
- Scale Fraction Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Shape Types Puzzle Talk*
- Soccer Dot Plots Fractions Puzzle Talk*
Fourth Grade
- Alien Bridge Symbolic Puzzle Talk*
- Alien Bridge Puzzle Talk*
- Capacity Puzzle Talk*
- Crank Pies Fraction Multiplication Puzzle Talk*
- Estimate Fractions on the Number Line Puzzle Talk*
- Fractions and Decimals Grid Puzzle Talk*
- Fraction Multiplication on a Number Line Puzzle Talk*
- Fraction Bricks Puzzle Talk*
- JiJi Cycle Select Basket Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Number Line Trap Puzzle Talk*
- Perimeter Select Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Scale Fraction Addition and Subtraction Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Scale Fraction (Mixed Numbers) Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Symmetry Grid Puzzle Talk*
Fifth Grade
- Estimate Addition and Subtraction Number Line Puzzle Talk*
- Fraction Area Puzzle Talk*
- Helicopter Volume Puzzle Talk*
- Line Capture from Table Puzzle Talk*
- Multiplying with Parentheses Puzzle Talk*
- Number Line Equivalence Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Pie Monster Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
- Scale Fraction Visual - Abridged Version
- Unit Multiples Puzzle Talk*
- Unit Multiplication on the Number Line Puzzle Talk - Abridged Version
Sixth Grade
- Kaboomerang!! Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Negative Number Line Trap Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Percent Objects Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Seed Worm Puzzle Talk*
- Select Peanuts Per Elephant Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Variable Stack Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Wall Factory Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
Seventh Grade
- Fraction, Percent, Decimal Trap Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Integers on the Number Line Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Mean Absolute Deviation Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Ornaments Proportions Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Percent Coin Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Rolling Equations Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Stretch-a-Block Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
Eighth Grade
- Frac Wall (Solving Linear Equations) Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Graph Path Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Hungry Monsters Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Inverse Game Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Linear Balloon Match Equation Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Linear Transform Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Rolling Equation Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Variable Stacks (Solving Linear Equations) Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Variable Stacks (Two-Step Equations) Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide
- Variable Stacks with Like Terms Puzzle Talk - Facilitation Guide