Digital Math Challenges for Smarty Pants #1 | Google Slides™

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Leah Popinski - Sum Math Fun
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Grade Levels
3rd - 5th, Homeschool
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  • PDF
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  • Internet Activities
Pages
30 slides (25 Challenges) and a PDF with Tracking Sheet, Answer Key, and Extension Option
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This was a really fun math center. My students loved it! I loved that it was no prep and self-checking! :)
I wanted to challenge my higher level math students during small group instruction and they loved it! They embraced the challenge and worked together to solve the puzzles.
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Description

This is the perfect resource to engage your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students in interactive digital math challenges that work with Google Slides! It can be easily added to your Google Classroom or Google Drive! These challenges are rigorous and require students to use and review what they know to find solutions.

⭐ This is the digital only version. If you would like the PRINT and DIGITAL versions together in one pack, you can find them by clicking this link.

They will use problem-solving and reasoning skills to solve each of the 25 challenges that are ideal for distance learning and online classrooms.

Examples and detailed instructions are given so that students can work independently.

✹ The term "Smarty Pants" is not used in any student material.

What do I receive?

Each product comes in the form of a PDF, which contains a link to the Google Slides™ resource, as well as teacher/parent instructions, a student tracking sheet, an option for students to create their own challenges, and an answer key.

What do I need?

This resource works great with laptops, iPads, and Chromebooks. If using iPads, the Google Slides™ app will give you the best experience.

How do I use this?

This paperless resource can be used independently, with partners, in small groups, and even whole group as a class lesson/activity.

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Have fun Mathing!

-Leah

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30 slides (25 Challenges) and a PDF with Tracking Sheet, Answer Key, and Extension Option
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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.
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.
Look for and make use of structure. Mathematically proficient students look closely to discern a pattern or structure. Young students, for example, might notice that three and seven more is the same amount as seven and three more, or they may sort a collection of shapes according to how many sides the shapes have. Later, students will see 7 × 8 equals the well remembered 7 × 5 + 7 × 3, in preparation for learning about the distributive property. In the expression 𝑥² + 9𝑥 + 14, older students can see the 14 as 2 × 7 and the 9 as 2 + 7. They recognize the significance of an existing line in a geometric figure and can use the strategy of drawing an auxiliary line for solving problems. They also can step back for an overview and shift perspective. They can see complicated things, such as some algebraic expressions, as single objects or as being composed of several objects. For example, they can see 5 – 3(𝑥 – 𝑦)² as 5 minus a positive number times a square and use that to realize that its value cannot be more than 5 for any real numbers 𝑥 and 𝑦.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. Mathematically proficient students notice if calculations are repeated, and look both for general methods and for shortcuts. Upper elementary students might notice when dividing 25 by 11 that they are repeating the same calculations over and over again, and conclude they have a repeating decimal. By paying attention to the calculation of slope as they repeatedly check whether points are on the line through (1, 2) with slope 3, middle school students might abstract the equation (𝑦 – 2)/(𝑥 – 1) = 3. Noticing the regularity in the way terms cancel when expanding (𝑥 – 1)(𝑥 + 1), (𝑥 – 1)(𝑥² + 𝑥 + 1), and (𝑥 – 1)(𝑥³ + 𝑥² + 𝑥 + 1) might lead them to the general formula for the sum of a geometric series. As they work to solve a problem, mathematically proficient students maintain oversight of the process, while attending to the details. They continually evaluate the reasonableness of their intermediate results.

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