St. Elizabeth's Big Brain Training Week: Unlock Your Amazing Brain

1. St Elizabeth’s Big Maths Brain Training Week

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

3. The neurons in your brain make enough electricity to generate a low-watt light bulb. • 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! Amazing Brain Facts

4. 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. . Practice makes perfect pathways!

5. . How we learn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwg8TeipfQ

6. 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. So, get moving to get smarter. . St Elizabeths Big Brain Training Week

7. 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.

8. Which colour wins?

9. Which colour wins?

10. Which colour wins?

11. Which colour wins?

12. Which colour wins?

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

14. Which is more? A B

15. Which is more? A B

16. Which is more? A B

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

18. Which is largest?

19. Which is smallest?

20. Order fastest to slowest

21. Which is a reptile

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

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

24. Say the colour of the word Green Purple Pink White Brown Blue Yellow Green Red White Orange Yellow Black Blue

25. Say the word Green Purple Pink White Brown Blue Yellow Green Red White Orange Yellow Black Blue

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

27. Order alphabetically

28. Order alphabetically

29. Order alphabetically

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

31. Which is largest? 63 22 98 44 77 97

32. Which is smallest? 16 -22 12 -26 2 -15

33. Which is largest and which is smallest? 104 84 14 74 84 4 24 54 34 64

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

35. Order smallest to largest 35 31 34 39 37 36

36. Order smallest to largest 92 40 73 16 56 21

37. 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.

38. Remember the pattern

39. Remember the pattern

40. Remember the pattern

41. 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

42. Scrambled letters e m s o r t n monster

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

44. Scrambled Letters e a h p s i s p c Spaceship

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