New Year Math Warm-Up Riddles for Classrooms
Warm up math brains with New Year riddles about clocks, calendars, and confetti counts. Great for bell ringers after winter break.
🧮 Bring math back with quick puzzles. These New Year math riddles make bell ringers lively.
⏰ Math Riddles (With Answers)
I’m a circle with numbers that count to twelve twice, helping you track minutes that pass in a slice. What am I?
I’m twelve little boxes plus some extras below, mark me each day to watch the new month grow. What am I?
Start at ten and count down to one; add them together—what have you done?
Confetti falls in groups of five; three groups land—how many arrive?
If fireworks boom at 8, 9, and 10, how many booms before it’s midnight again?
A streamer roll is 60 inches long. You cut it into 5-inch strips. How many strips belong?
You write 3 resolutions a week for 4 weeks straight. How many resolutions do you create?
The ball drops for 60 seconds, a tick every one. How many ticks before the countdown is done?
You have 24 cupcakes for a class of 20. How many extras when each gets one plenty?
A banner reads HAPPY NEW YEAR with 13 letters. If each letter costs 2 points, what’s the total altogether?
Use one riddle per day as a bell ringer to ease back into math.