These Christmas math puzzles are an easy way to engage your students in genuine and meaningful math conversations about math properties while fostering their algebraic understanding. They will give your students the opportunity to use their understanding of basic mathematical operations and problem solving skills to discover the value of each festive symbol. These Christmas logic puzzles are perfect for advanced 5th graders and most middle school math students.

This set includes:

• 12 unique logic puzzles with varying degrees of difficulty
• two different size options (small and full-page)
• an answer sheet for students and an answer key

Ideas for Use in the Classroom
Allow students to get up from their seat and walk from puzzle to puzzle to try and solve each one taped to the wall.

Create a trickier scavenger hunt by printing and hiding the smaller puzzle cards around the room to make the actual search for the card a bit trickier. Or place the smaller puzzle cards at each desk/table for students to solve as a warm-up when they come in the classroom.

Differentiation

If you find that these are too tricky for your students, try giving them the value of one of the symbols and see if they can discover the others!

Here's what one teacher said about math logic puzzles:

"Using these as warm up problems and the kids are loving them! I love the math talks that come with working problems like these out, it opens up discussion about different problem solving strategies and how to find your mistakes. Thank you!"

Happy Teaching!