Christmas Problem Solving Activities for Enrichment or Early Finishers

Description

These Christmas problem solving activities will keep your students engaged in learning during the busy holiday season! Fun Christmas math questions are engaging for students to complete and easy for teachers to prepare. Great enrichment or early finisher activity!

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This resource includes 4 challenging Christmas themed math problems!

Christmas lights and the circumference of the Earth
Gifts for every child in the world packed into Santa's sleigh
Candy canes and reindeer
Walking from your home to the North Pole

Each problem includes:

Illustrated and colorful question sheet
Helpful hints sheet
Student planning and recording sheets
Bonus question that builds on the original question.
Suggested answers and solution process ideas (there are many ways to solve each problem)

These problems encourage:

critical thinking
problem solving skills
close reading
research
gathering data
organizing information and calculations
communicating math ideas

Great to use for:

whole class learning
small groups
enrichment
homework
winter break math challenges

The math problems are "Fermi Math" types of questions. A Fermi math problem is a multi-step problem involving large numbers that can be solved in a variety of ways. Students will need to use estimation, rounding, planning, formulas, and organization skills to work their way towards an answer.

Christmas Problem Solving Activities for Enrichment or Early Finishers

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Highlights

Digital downloads

PDF

Grades

4th - 6th

Subjects

Math, Other (Math)

Standards

CCSSMP1

CCSSMP2

CCSSMP4

Description

Please click on the green PREVIEW button to see what is included in this high interest resource!

This resource includes 4 challenging Christmas themed math problems!

Christmas lights and the circumference of the Earth
Gifts for every child in the world packed into Santa's sleigh
Candy canes and reindeer
Walking from your home to the North Pole

Each problem includes:

Illustrated and colorful question sheet
Helpful hints sheet
Student planning and recording sheets
Bonus question that builds on the original question.
Suggested answers and solution process ideas (there are many ways to solve each problem)

These problems encourage:

critical thinking
problem solving skills
close reading
research
gathering data
organizing information and calculations
communicating math ideas

Great to use for:

whole class learning
small groups
enrichment
homework
winter break math challenges

Questions & Answers

Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSSMP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

CCSSMP4

Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.