Resources for Educators
Fractions of Fun
Reinforce concepts and encourage learner engagement with a collection of math games, science experiments, and cross curricular activities. In one fun resource, learners sort objects, keep a diary of everyday fractions, play a game using...
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A Collection of Logic Number Puzzles on the Hundred Board
What's my number? Spark mathematical thinking and have some fun with thirty number puzzles that pose a series of questions to guide learners towards number discovery.
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Math Squares
It's Sudoku for beginners! Well, not exactly, but these math squares offer a fun way to practice addition for your learners. Each of the sixteen 3x3 squares has four numbers filled in. Scholars add the numbers across and down, then use...
Education Development Center
Area and Multiplication
Take some intellectual fun and apply it to the concept of multiplying expressions together. A guide models how to break two numbers into an area model to multiply together in pieces similar to FOILing. The rest of the puzzles consist of...
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Likely Outcomes
A coin toss is a simple and fun way to help youngsters discovery probability. Preferably in partners, they first predict what would happen if they tossed two coins 48 times. How often would two heads show up? Two tails? How about one of...
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Probability Crossword
Make probability fun and test your learners' knowledge of math probability vocabulary. Print out this crossword puzzle and see if they know enough about outcomes and experiments to fill in the blanks. The answer key is attached in...
KenKen Puzzle
KenKen® Puzzle
Think inside the box with KenKen® puzzles to provide some problem solving practice. These puzzles are similar to Sudoku, but require computation inside designated boxes. There are multiple puzzles with a range of difficulties to...
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Product Puzzle
Make multiplication facts a little more fun using a crossword puzzle! Learners solve twenty-eight problems and fill in the puzzle as they go. The advantage is that they know if they have done something wrong because of discrepancies in...
Noyce Foundation
Double Down
Double the dog ears, double the fun. Five problems provide increasing challenges with non-linear growth. Topics include dog ears, family trees and population data, and geometric patterns.
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Number Sense and Numeration: Multiples, Factors and Square Roots
A great resource for any math teacher covering multiples, factors or square roots; this worksheet walks young mathematicians through the logic behind factoring and square roots with a systematic set of problems which gradually increase...
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Math Club Worksheet #30 - Visual Stretches
In this visual math puzzle worksheet, students work in groups to find the answer to 6 math puzzles. They work with geometric shapes and symbols.
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Math Club #19: Brain Twisters
In this brain twisters learning exercise, 7th graders work in groups to solve 7 puzzles using logic and problems solving skills.
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Math Analogies
In this math analogy worksheet, students complete the analogy by writing in the last item based on the relationship between the first two items.
Illustrative Mathematics
Seven to the What?!?
Sometimes what seems like the easiest problem is really the most difficult. Your class is first going to reach for their calculators, but will realize the number is too large to evaluate. Now what? This is where the fun and the logical...
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Math Puzzle: Numbers 0-4
In this math puzzle activity, students fill in numbers 0-4 in squares equaling the same sum going across and down. Answers are included on page 3.
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Animal Jr. Christmas Worksheet
In this Christmas animal math worksheet, students solve 36 single and double-digit addition problems and then follow the coloring key and color in each sum a different color.
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Regents Exam Questions GG 26: Contrapositive 2
In this contrapositive worksheet, students read logical statements. Afterwards, they write equivalent statements as well as the inverse and converse of statements. This three-page worksheet contains 14 statements. Answers are listed...
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Pre-Calculus Sudoku Puzzle
In this pre-calculus worksheet, student solve 35 multiple choice problems and then place the answers in a Sudoku puzzle form. This worksheet would be a great warm up or fun test review.
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Boardwalk Fun
For this word problem worksheet, students read about the preferences for each of the kids Colleen, Amy, Brian, and Jimmy. The kids all plan to visit a different place first. Students determine which place the kids will visit first by...
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Solving a Simple Maze
It is a-maze-ing how lost one can get. Teams reconstruct a simple maze and solve it. Participants create an algorithm that a robot would follow in order to solve the maze as well. The activity includes an extension directing pupils to...
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Elvis Presley Number Puzzle
In this Elvis Presley worksheet, students first determine four numbers form clues about Elvis' life. Next the students use those four numbers to correctly determine nine numbers in a square. Hints as well as a full solution are provided.
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The Family Tree
In this patterns practice worksheet, students read a 3-paragraph excerpt regarding a family tree and respond to 1 graphic organizer question and 1 short answer question.
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Shape Addition and Subtraction
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, learners use the key with 10 shapes that have a corresponding number. Students solve 6 problems in which the geometric shapes alone are shown in an addition or subtraction problem. Learners...
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Addition: How Many Ways?
In this addition worksheet, students make number sentences out of the 4 numbers given to them. Students are given numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8 and can use each number 3 times.