St Elizabeth’s Big Maths Brain Training Week

Your Amazing Brain Can you finish these sentences? The brain is… Your brain needs… Learning is when…

Amazing Brain Facts Your brain is a big muscle There are little connections inside you brain. They send little signals using electricityelectricity The signals can fly from your body to your brain at more than 150 mph. Whew! Your brain sends more messages everyday than all the phones in the world. Now that’s a lot of texting!

Brain Training How do we make muscles big and strong? Your brain gets stronger the more you USE it and CHALLENGE it with puzzles and problems. This week you are going to workout your brain to make it bigger, faster, stronger and better!.

How we learn.

St Elizabeths Big Brain Training Week If you THINK you are not good at maths, start practicing. Chances are, you’ll get better ! Exercising your brain can make you smarter. When you exercise, blood flow to the brain is increased which helps you to learn.blood Make sure you run around at break and lunch times during brain training week Get moving to get smarter!.

Choosing A or B, identify which side contains the largest amount of money! The box of the correct answer will then expand.

Which is more? AB

AB

AB

By looking at the 4 pictures identify which picture represents the question asked. The correct answer(s) will then flash.

Which is largest?

Which is smallest?

Order smallest to largest

Order fastest to slowest

Follow the instruction and say either the colour of the word or the word which is written.

Say the word Green Pink Blue Yellow Purple White Brown Green Red White Orange Yellow BlackBlue

Say the colour of the word Green Pink Blue Yellow Purple White Brown Green Red White Orange Yellow BlackBlue

Say the colour of the word Blue Pink Orange Purple Red Green

Study all the numbers shown and identify either the largest or smallest number. The answer will then flash.

Which is largest?

Which is smallest?

Look carefully at the picture in the centre of the slide. Study the 4 shadow pictures and identify which number 1, 2, 3 or 4 matches the picture in the centre. The correct picture will remain.

Identify the shadow picture

Follow the coloured balls as they fly into the basket and identify which colour wins at the end! The answers will then appear at the top of the slide.

Which colour wins?

St Elizabeths Big Brain Training Week How can you ‘supersize’ your amazing brain? Puzzle Week Challenge Corner Maths page: N-Rich Challenges