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Operation Spaghetti
Find the math in recipes. Young chefs will follow a recipe and investigate the total cost for materials. They measure amounts of food necessary for the recipe and compute the per person cost.
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Missing Hundred Square
Kids are presented with the problem of finding the missing numbers to each of nine 100s squares. They'll need to subtract and add to make each puzzle equal 100. Great challenge or daily warm-up activity.
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Math Puzzle Worksheets: Math Box Addition
In this math box addition worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 13 boxes as they use their addition skills to solve the math puzzle.
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #13
For this addition puzzle worksheet, students complete a 12 space grid in which rows and columns equal the numbers given. Students supply the missing addends.
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #27
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students complete a 12 space addition square in which all rows and columns add up to equal the numbers given. Students fill in the missing addends.
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #29
For this addition puzzle worksheet, students complete a 12 space grid in which rows and columns add up to be the numbers given. Students fill in the missing addends.
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #19
For this addition math puzzle worksheet, students insert the correct digits in a puzzle grid so that the rows, columns and diagonals add up to the numbers given.
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It All Adds Up- Math Square Puzzle
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students solve a math square in which rows and columns are added to equal the number provided at the end of each row. Students insert the digits in the puzzle to make correct addition sentences.
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It All Adds Up Math Puzzle
In this math puzzle worksheet, students solve a 10 space addition puzzle in which the rows and columns add to be the number given at the end of each row.
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It All Adds Up: Puzzle #11
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students fill 10 blanks in the rows and columns of a puzzle grid. Students add across and down; sums must equal the number given at the end of each row. Students may not repeat any digits in a row or...
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Math Square Puzzle
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students fill in 10 blank spaces on a math puzzle grid. Students make each row and column add up to be the sum at the end of each line of the puzzle.
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Number Puzzles: Finding ways to solve them
There are four different word problems (number puzzles) for learners to solve. Each one requires them to think critically about the operation they'll need to use and encourages class discussion. Use as a warm up or prior to a lesson on...
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Math Series: Number Patterns
The focus of this math instructional activity is representing numbers in different ways. Young mathematicians practice putting numbers into sets, and arriving at answers in new ways. For example, they are asked to, "Show me how to get 7...
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Climbing Math 2
In this math puzzle worksheet, learners use their addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication skills to solve this math puzzle.
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Float and Sink
In this float or sink worksheet, 8th graders solve 1 science/math puzzle about displacement of water; the answer is available online.
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Math Puzzle: Three Cubes
In this math puzzle: three cubes activity, 8th graders solve the puzzle by making cubes with 2 digit numerals on each side, then finding 3 ways for 3 sides to add up to 100, the answer is available online.
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Measure Exactly 8 Liters of Water
For this measure exactly 8 liters of water worksheet, 6th graders read the problem and solve the question of measuring 8 liters with only a 6 liter and an 11 liter bucket.
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Missing Dollar: the Bargain Hotel
In this missing dollar: the bargain hotel worksheet, 6th graders solve the math puzzle about paying for the hotel room using logic and problem solving.
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Math Puzzles: Connected Loops
In this math puzzles: connected loops activity, 6th graders read an explanation of the puzzle, then solve by figuring out how to connect the loops, answer is available online.
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More Trees in a Row
In this more trees in a row activity, 6th graders review one similar puzzle then solve a new one about planting 10 tress in 4 rows of 5.
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Math Puzzle: Getting There and Back
For this math puzzle worksheet, students determine how wind speed affects a round trip plane trip using 3 different scenarios of wind, air and ground speed.
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Comparing Themes Across Texts
Read various texts to compare the themes across each text. Learners write a journal entry describing the most beautiful scenery they've seen and use a map of the United States to locate the Sequoia National Park and Muir Woods. They then...
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Question of the Week
Use this presentation as a means to spark discussion and promote critical-thinking skills in your classroom. Learners read and discuss a series of questions such as whether animals can talk. This presentation provides a good way to have...
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Associative Property
Here is a new twist on teaching the associative property of multiplication. The author of this presentation makes an analogy between the associative property and a couple getting married. The numbers, like people, are separate, but when...