Back to School Puzzles

by Ms. A's Place

Price: 350 points or $3.5 USD

Subjects: games,fineMotorSkills,ot

Grades: 14,13,1

Description: Challenge your students with this engaging Back-to-School Boom Deck designed to promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This deck includes 10 interactive puzzles, offering students the option to complete each one with or without a guiding grid. Puzzles are an excellent way to support cognitive development, fine motor coordination, memory, focus, and patience. Upon completion of each puzzle, students receive a positive affirmation, reinforcing effort and encouraging a growth mindset. Although puzzles are primarily enrichment-based, this resource supports the development of foundational skills aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice, including MP.1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, and MP.7: Look for and make use of structure. These standards emphasize persistence, logical reasoning, and recognizing patterns—all essential skills that are strengthened through puzzle-solving activities.