Curated OER
History Detective: The Case of the Mysterious Trunk
Students role play as history detectives. In this historical inquiry lesson, students discuss what detectives do, analyze a trunk of "artifacts" and make conclusions about its fictional owner. Students complete six pages of related art,...
Curated OER
Brief Content 3
In this sentences and phrases worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences and phrases and choose the best word to complete them. Students complete 25 sentences and phrases.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Cuckoo Caper
The famous Clockenheimer Cuckoo is missing from Clockenheimer Clocks on Main Street! Help Math Maven get it back by solving a math riddle.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: Mystery at the Third Strike Sports Store
Solve a mystery using your reasoning skills. At this site use all the clues and figure out the winner of the Third Strike Contest.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Big Top Carnival Caper
Help the Math Maven figure out how much money it will cost to give a balloon to every tenth person riding the Ferris wheel. Includes a PDF.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Bell Clapper Caper
Help the Math Maven get the kids out of school on time. Someone has stolen the bell's clapper and if the bell doesn't ring at 3:00, the school doors will not open! You have to figure out the last question to ask the number one suspect.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: Mystery at the Peculiar Zoo
Use this site to sharpen your multiplication and division skills and solve a zoo mystery.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Time & Data: Days of the Week
Learn the mysteries of time and date with Dalia in Egypt.
Scholastic
Scholastic Math Maven's Mysteries: The Mystery of Pirate Ringold's Lost Treasure
In this Math Maven mystery, read the legend of Pirate Ringold and his treasure and help Frieda Finditall figure out how much gold there is left to find on this old ship. Your knowledge about addition and subtraction with fractions will...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Hatcher Hotel Heist
Help Math Maven solve this mystery! Items are missing from several hotel rooms, but some addition and subtraction clues have been left behind. Use your skills to figure out where the thief will strike next!
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail
Pat Tern has been buying items all around town using counterfeit money. Help Math Maven identify a pattern to catch her before she deposits fake money into the Cashflow Bank.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Skating Bus Driver
The bus is not running in Point Logos because Suzie, the bus driver, has decided to go try out the new "Rocket Skates," at Skate Palace. Help the Math Maven choose an algebraic equation that will tell when the bus driver will be finished...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"
Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Think Math
Think Math offers a collection of 43 KET-produced resources from Math at the Core: Middle School, including 17 Scale City videos and interactives about proportional reasoning, 14 Wild Fractions animations and games that feature visual...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Circumference: Ancient Stonehenge Math Mysteries
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students change the length of a radius to explore the circumference of a circle. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Secret of E. Quation the Great
Want to figure out a magician's secret for a cool balancing trick? Use your algebra knowledge to discover how this magic trick was done.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries
Scholastic.com offers information on how to use the Math Maven's Mysteries to enhance problem-solving skills, partly through class discussion. For the actual mysteries, click on Math Maven Home.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Mystery Math
Amaze your friends with this number trick! Mystery Math is a number game that allows you to guess another person's secret number. If you want to play Mystery Math with the computer, you will need a pencil, a piece of paper and a...
Math Playground
Math Playground: Puzzle Pic Addition Facts
Put together the puzzle to solve the mystery by solving addition problems.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Mystery Operations
This interactive activity allows you to change an equation's numbers in an attempt to figure out what operations are being used to control the answers.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Divisibility Rules
This is a complete lesson plan about the concept of divisibility and common divisibility rules. It briefly reviews the concepts of factor, divisor, and a number being divisible by another. Then, the "easy" divisibility rules by 2, 5, 10,...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ph Et: Function Builder
Play with functions while you ponder Art History. Explore geometric transformations and transform your thinking about linear functions, then have fun figuring out the mystery functions.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Dastardly Disguiser
Famous jewels have been stolen from the Country Music Hall of Fame! The Dastardly Disguiser is a suspect, but we need to find out just how many disguise combinations he can use.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Mystery Math
Students practice solving subtraction problems with multiple digits.