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Secret Code
In this division learning exercise, students divide one and two digit numbers and come up with a secret code at the end. Students complete 11 division problems.
Little 10 Robot
Operation Math Code Squad
Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is math skills practice. In this app, Mission Impossible meets basic number operation skills, and your students are the secret agents.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Challenge: Code Breaker
Here is a code-breaker multiplication and division game which has learners find the missing letter in equations, then solve and use those letters to "break the code," which actually is the answer to a riddle. Make math fun with a...
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Code Cracking
There is nothing more engaging than cracking a secret code! Middle schoolers will replace letters with numbers to solve problems. This game will help them to begin to understand algebra questions by finding the value of missing numbers....
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Goldentail's Rounding Railroad
In this number puzzle worksheet, students solve 24 equations in each of two sets of multiplication and division problems. They circle each answer and round them to the nearest whole number. They use the secret code that is shown in a box...
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Secret Code
In this division worksheet, 4th graders solve the 11 division equations and then match each number in the message with the division quotients. Students determine the message.
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Minnesota Muskrat's Worldwide Adventures
In this long division worksheet, 5th graders solve problems to decode a secret message. Students solve for 60 problems with some remainders and two digit quotients.
Math Salamanders Ltd.
Unit Fractions of Numbers 4
In this unit/fractions learning exercise, students find unit fractions of given numbers, then use a code grid to find a secret code word.
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Solving Single-Step Word Problems
Math wizards learn the five-step plan to solve math word problems. They investigate the five-step process for solving word problems, and examine the use of code words for each of the operations and solve a problem using the strategies.
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You Know the Answer: Math Riddle
Although the riddle is an outdated political reference, this math challenge is a good practice in operations and domain-specific vocabulary. Learners complete 18 problems, using multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition. Some...
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Detective Digis and the Computer Caper
Mathematicians participate in an hands-on activity to investigate the binary number system and write messages in binary code and have classmates decipher the messages. A said video on the topic does not seem to be available, but the...
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Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography
Pupils perform basic operations in modular (clock) arithmetic. Students encode and decode messages using shift and affine ciphers. Pupils apply their multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction skills.
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You Know the Answer
In this problem solving worksheet, 4th graders are given an answer to a question and must solve the mathematical problems to discover the secret question. Students solve for 18 problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Facts
This one page website from Scholastic offers two math facts games and a secret code idea all to help you remember your math facts.