St Elizabeth’s Big Maths St Elizabeth’s Big Maths Brain Training WeekBrain Training Week

Your Amazing BrainYour Amazing Brain

Can you finish these sentences?

The brain is…

Your brain needs…

Learning is when…

Amazing Brain FactsAmazing Brain Facts• Your brain is a big muscle

• There are little connections inside you brain. They send little signals using electricity

• 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 TrainingBrain 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!

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How we learnHow we learn

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwg8TeipfQ

St Elizabeths Big Brain St Elizabeths Big Brain Training WeekTraining 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.

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?

A B

Which is more?

A B

Which is more?

A B

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

BlueYellow

Purple

WhiteBrown

GreenRed White

Orange YellowBlack Blue

Say the colour of the word

Green

Pink

BlueYellow

Purple

WhiteBrown

GreenRed White

Orange YellowBlack Blue

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?

2263

97

44

98

77

Which is smallest?

76

16 6

86

26

7646

96

36

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 picture1 2

3 4

Identify the shadow picture

1

2

3

4

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?

Which colour wins?

Which colour wins?

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How can you ‘supersize’ your amazing brain?

•Puzzle Week•Challenge Corner

•Maths page: N-Rich Challenges