BRAIN TEASER PARTNER SEARCH

The purpose of this exercise is to model effective communication and class participation in our mathematics
class, for us to have fun, and for us to get to know one another!

1. Find a partner.
2. Solve one of the following brain teasers.
3. Have your partner initial your worksheet to indicate agreement.
4. Find a new partner and begin the process again! You must have the initials of each member of the
class before you can return to your original partner.

WORD PUZZLES

Each of the following puzzles represents a common word or phrase. Can you figure it out?
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What’s black when you buy it, red If today is Tuesday, what is the day What can be driven but has no
when you use it, and gray when after the day before the day wheels and can be sliced yet
you throw it away? before tomorrow? remains whole?

When you have me, you feel like From the beginning of eternity, to If you started spelling out numbers
sharing me. But, if you do share the end of time and space, to the (one, two, three, and so on), how
me, you don’t have me. What am beginning of every end, and the far would you have to go until you
I? end of every place. What am I? found the letter A?

What are the next three in this If you find the clues, can you I’m where yesterday follows today,
series of letters? o, t, t, f, f, s, s, –, –, decode the answer? and tomorrow’s in the middle.
– BESCLTUCELSASCSLEUVEERS What am I?

You have a huge pail that, when

What belongs to you, but others it’s filled to the top with water,
What six-letter word can you make
use it far more often than you use weighs 100 pounds. What can you
with these letters? LIEG
it? add to the bucket to make it
lighter?

How can you throw a ball as hard

as you can and have it come
What can travel all around the
back to you, even if it doesn’t hit What one letter will complete this
world while staying in the same
anything, doesn’t have anything sentence? Tbernttbe?
corner?
attached to it, and isn’t caught or
thrown by anyone else?