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Teaching Students Mathematical Reasoning Skills
Students can build upon their basic math skills and become higher order thinkers when we encourage the following principles.
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Travel Problems
This worksheet is actually an entire chapter focused on math problems involving, shortest path, minimum connector, traveling salesman, and Chinese postman problems. There are multiple activities, exercises, and examples to get students...
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Elvis Presley Number Puzzles
In this Elvis Presley Puzzles worksheet, students link to three different puzzles regarding numerical facts concerning the life of Elvis Presley. Complete solutions are provided for each puzzle.
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Sudorku
In this sudoku puzzle worksheet, students evaluate 28 expressions with answers resulting in values of 1-9. Students solve the sudoku puzzle by filling in the missing numbers.
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Nim With Cards
In this math worksheet, students solve word problems by playing a card game. The first person to reach 31 wins the game.
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Baseball Lineup
In this deductive resoning worksheet, students use 9 clues do determine which player plays each position on a baseball team.
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Math Made Me, Glad
In this math puzzle, each letter stands for a number. Students find the numbers to substitute for each letter so the words "math made me glad" add up to "momma." Eight solutions are shown on the answer key.
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Weekly Math Challenge
Students solve a new math challenge every week. In this math center activity, students explain the process of solving the weekly challenge. Students are assessed on what is included in their challenge notebook. Students earn rewards for...
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Secret Code Spotlight
In this secret math code learning exercise, learners solve 14 equations and apply the color value for each line according to the key. Students write the final total and the secret coded letter from another key. Learners read the message.
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Search for Eighteen
In this math puzzle worksheet, students solve 12 triangle math puzzles. Each triangle must equal eighteen with all numbers being used once with any operation.
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Fifty Dollar Word$ From Ms. Smiley's Class
In this math code worksheet, 5th graders analyze 6 words that have an exact value of $50 according to the code. Students encode each word using the values in the key and use any of the four basic math operations to show a final value of...
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Fifty Dollar Word$
In this math code worksheet, students analyze 6 words that have an exact value of $50. Students encode each word with numbers from the key and use any of the four math operations to show a value of $50.
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MMC Cross Number Puzzle
For this cross math puzzle, students solve the problems and then fill in the answers in the cross number puzzle going across and down in shapes of the letters MMC. Students solve 36 problems.
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Use the Clues
In this reasoning instructional activity, 2nd graders, after looking over the example, read 3 clues 3 times to find the 3 numbers that make each sum in 3 boxes.
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Logical Thinking With Shapes
For this logical thinking with geometric shapes worksheet, students write directions for transforming one shape into the next on a web. They write phrases such as "make two sides parallel" or "make all the sides the same length" while...
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Video Viewers
In this video viewers worksheet, 3rd graders solve 2 word problems dealing with watching videos, read and analyze 4 clues in order to fill in a chart correctly involving 5 people and the types of videos they watch.
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Part Patterns
In this patterns worksheet, 3rd graders study and analyze the 6 patterns on the left of the worksheet. Students then look at the pictures on the right and circle the picture that comes next.
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Find the Fake
In this division problems worksheet, 3rd graders look at 7 rows of division problems and determine which one of the four on each row does not belong with the other three. Students circle their answers.
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Go-Togethers
In this math analogies activity, 3rd graders circle the appropriate multiple choice answer that best completes 6 math analogies. Students complete one analogy.
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Story Time
In this number sentences activity, 2nd graders look at 4 number sentences and tell a story about each one. Students draw a picture about each of their stories.
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Sum Machine!
In this addition activity, 2nd graders find the sum of 14 addition math problems involving three-digit whole numbers. Students write 1 original addition problem that can be solved.
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Smart Shopping
For this exact change worksheet, 3rd graders look over a price list and circle each item that Danielle can buy with 3 quarters, 2 dimes, a nickel and a penny. Students find five groups of items that Danielle can buy together with the...
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Look-Alikes
In this number look-alike activity, 2nd graders look at the numbers in 2 stars, determine how they are alike and write another number in the middle that belongs to each group of numbers. Students make and fill in 2 additional stars using...
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Fill It Up
In this filling in a chart worksheet, 3rd graders write a specific number in 15 boxes that fits the rule for each column and row. Students can use any number only once.