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 The neurons in your brain make enough electricity to generate a low-watt light bulb.electricity Messages can fly from the nerves in 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!

Practice makes perfect pathways! Your neurons are joined by tiny pathways. When you do something a lot (like ride your bike) the pathways to help you ride the bike are strengthened. However, if don’t do something very often, the pathways become weak. Imagine an old pathway filled with grass and weeds Practice really does make perfect because it strengthens neural pathways..

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 can make you smarter. When you exercise, blood flow to the brain is increased. Your brain also releases hormones that can help you learn.blood So, get moving to get smarter..

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?

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

BA

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 fastest to slowest

Which is a reptile

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

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

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

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

Look carefully at the 4 pictures shown and order them alphabetically. They will then flash in the correct order.

Order alphabetically

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

Which is largest?

Which is smallest?

Which is largest and which is smallest?

Study the 6 number balloons which appear on the slide, order from smallest to largest. The balloons will then flash in the correct order.

Order smallest to largest

Order smallest to largest

Watch carefully as different shapes fly across the screen. After the shapes have stopped moving recall the order. The correct order will then appear at the stop.

Remember the pattern

Letters will appear on the screen. Identify the word which can be made by reordering the letters. The correct answer will then appear on the screen

Scrambled letters m e r o t n s monster

Scrambled Letters e t i c c l r y t e i electricity

s s c p h e i p a Spaceship

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