Make a splash with a math skills resource! Starring characters from the children's story Mystery of the Muddled Marsh, several worksheets create interdisciplinary connections between science, language arts, and math. They cover a wide range of topics, including addition and subtraction of one and two digit numbers, making and analyzing bar graphs, and identifying lines of symmetry. 

Concepts

addition, bar graphs, graphs, number order, numbers, subtraction

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Additional Tags

number sequence, ordering numbers, symmetry, addition, subtraction, bar graph, math

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Instructional Ideas

• Provide the sheets as an option for early finishers, or supplement them into the standard math curriculum

Classroom Considerations

• A free copy of Mystery of Muddled Marsh is available online

Pros

• Includes examples and fill-in-the-blank numbers sentences
• Uses a children's story to engage learners and provide a meaningful context for applying math skills

Cons

• None

Common Core

1.OA.A.1 1.OA.B.4 1.OA.C.6 1.OA.D.8 1.NBT.C.4 2.OA.A.1 2.OA.B.2 2.NBT.B.5 2.MD.D.10 3.NBT.A.2 3.MD.B.3 4.NBT.B.4