Looking for an activity that will keep the fun in fourth grade and fifth grade math? Here’s a set of 24 math task cards that will strengthen your students’ skills at using exponents and expressions for square numbers through 100.

Choosing from four numbers, your students will determine the Aliens' Secret Number by eliminating three of the options. With each riddle task card they complete, your students will evaluate and match expressions like 7X7, 7 squared (written on the cards in exponential form), and 49. They'll have a great time and won’t even realize that they’ve completed 72 in all!

This is a great set to provide an early introduction to simple use of exponents. You'll find it to be useful as challenge work for advanced third graders, right through fourth and even fifth grade.

Because the alien graphics in this set aren't seasonal, you'll find yourself using this resource at any time during the school year, whenever you need it!

A hundred chart for extra support, student recording page, answer key, and themed board game are also included.

Here are some ways that you might use the task cards in your classroom:

► Use in a math center for individual or partner work

► Use with your document camera for whole class review or to focus attention at the beginning of your math lesson

► Use as a skills review rotation (aka "Scoot"), individually or with partners, with students moving to stations around the classroom to solve the clues

► Use for morning “bell ringers”

► Use as challenge work or for early finishers

► Use as an activity with classroom volunteers – they can complete as few or as many as time allows!

► Print in black and white to use in interactive notebooks. Give one card to each student and have them write about their thinking in solving the riddle.

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Thanks for your interest in this resource! If you're ready to build a larger collection of math riddles, so you'll always have them on hand for new topics as well as spiral review, this set is also included in this money-saving bundle!

Upper Elementary Math Riddle Task Cards Bundle

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