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Baseball Player Mystery Puzzle
After solving each multiplication sentence square, pupils color the numbers according to the key. What does the mystery picture make? Class members take a swing at problem solving to find out.
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Counting Coloring Puzzle
If your kids enjoy color-by-number, they will be excited about this worksheet! Using a color key, they match numbers on a picture of a bee by coloring them the corresponding shade. There is a trick here: although the number 10 is listed...
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The Pythagorean Puzzle
An engaging hands-on activity is presented. Learners of all ages are addressed in thie unique plan. K-5 learners identify, name, and define a rectangle, square, triangle, and the concept of area. Older learners prove the Pythagorean...
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Turtle Coloring Puzzle (Addition and Subtraction Facts to 5)
Combine addition and coloring with this simple worksheet featuring a picture of a turtle. Learners color by number, but they must find the sum or difference of simple addition and subtraction problems to find each number. There are 13...
Illustrative Mathematics
Make Your Own Puzzle
Puzzling over what geometry activity to teach next? Look no further. This simple activity teaches young mathematicians how shapes can be decomposed into smaller figures, and how smaller figures can be assembled into larger shapes. To...
Generation Rx
Medication Safety Patrol: Pharmacy Crossword Puzzle
Nine pages set to a pharmaceutical theme offers scholars the chance to complete five activities. Worksheet pages include a crossword puzzle, drawing, an object sort, and math puzzles using addition, multiplication, and division.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Tangram Cutout
Challenge the spatial thinking of your young mathematicians with this printable tangram puzzle. Using different sized triangles, squares, and parallelograms, children must figure out how to fit all the shapes together to create a square.
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Count Forward from a Given Number Puzzle Worksheet
Practice counting on from a given number using this puzzle worksheet. There are 10 starting numbers in the first column, and learners follow them through four columns, counting by ones to find the next number. Although the instructions...
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Mitten Math: Multiplication of 10
Learners complete multiplication-by-10 problems, then match the problems to the answers in mittens. They complete ten problems and color the mittens according to the key.
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Math Puzzle Picture
The key to solving this puzzle lies in the addition skills of young learners. The first step is to answer a series of decimal addition problems organized in a 4x5 grid. Then cut apart the page of puzzle pieces, each one including an...
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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Color Sudoku
In this Sudoku worksheet, students solve a puzzle by filling in the numbers 1-9 so that each number appears only once in each row going across and down and in each block of 9 squares. The numbers 1-9 also appear once in each color.
Mascil Project
Teaching Geometry Through Play
Puzzle your way through to a new understanding of area. Scholars learn about the area of polygons through equidecomposability, the idea that polygons that can be decomposed into the same set of pieces have the same area. By using...
Coloring Squared
Halloween Pumpkin Multiplication
A 19x20 grid showcases 380 multiplication problems that young mathematicians must solve to create a colorful picture. In this case, it's a pumpkin! Green, black, orange, and red-orange colored crayons are necessary to create a beautiful...
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Arctic Take 6
The magic number is six! Using a 6x table, young math stars practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing two-digit numbers with the number six. This worksheet also touches on making tessellations with hexagons.
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Color Tile Riddles
In this color the tile riddles worksheet, students solve and complete 6 different puzzles that include various riddles to solve. First, they determine the number that is represented by what color according to the information given. Then,...
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Jigsaw Puzzle
In this jigsaw puzzle instructional activity, students trace the letters around each shape, color each shape and then cut out the 12 pieces of the puzzle. Students shuffle the pieces together and then put the jigsaw puzzle back together.
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Chocolate Puzzles #2
A series of math puzzle worksheets are embedded in this simple plan which has learners solve mathematical calculation, and follow a coloring key in order to come up with the word, "chocolate." All of the puzzles are embedded in the plan....
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Reducing Fractions Coloring Puzzle
For this fraction worksheet, students practice reducing fractions. They color portions of a picture puzzle according to the colors listed at the bottom of the page. They color all of the fractions that reduce to 1/4 in pink, 1/2 in...
Education Development Center
Language of Algebra
Don't rush into algebra, let learners visualize, guess, and predict their way to a successful math career. The introductory unit incorporates beginner algebraic concepts with shapes instead of variables. Young mathematicians use a...
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Multiplication Puzzle
In this multiplication worksheet, young scholars match up 12 multiplication math problems puzzle pieces to 12 pieces of another puzzle with the answers on them.
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Sudoku Puzzle
In this Sudoku worksheet, students solve a puzzle by filling in the numbers 1-9 so that each number appears only once in each row going across and down and in each block of 9 squares. The numbers 1-9 also appear once in each color.
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Sudoku Puzzle
For this Sudoku worksheet, students solve a puzzle by filling in the numbers 1-9 so that each number appears only once in each row going across and down and in each block of 9 squares. The numbers 1-9 also appear once in each color.
Curriculum Corner
Ice Cream Booklet
On the days leading up to summer, use a booklet of practice skill sheets in the classroom. Beginner pupils should be able to master the skills they've learned in math and reading before they head home for the summer, like counting to 30,...