Factors and multiples can be a confusing challenge! When your students solve these fun math mystery enrichment riddles for factors and multiples within 100 in math centers or for independent practice, they'll build critical thinking skills and math skills, too!

These math riddles are a unique way to keep the fun in math while growing your students' abilities in multiplication, division, and critical thinking skills.

Here's how these math mystery riddles work!

Choosing from four numbers on each card, your students will determine Super Sleuth's Secret Number by using math clues to eliminate three of the options. With each riddle task card they complete, your students will determine factors and/or multiples for four numbers. They'll have a great time and won’t even realize that they’ve completed 96 examples in all, and with so much more fun than an average worksheet can provide!

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

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Here's what's included in this factors and multiples resource!

✅ 24 riddle cards, printing at four per page

✅ The same 24 riddles in full page format, ready to use on your interactive board or on digital devices with your favorite apps

✅ A student recording page and answer key

✅ A challenging set of three printable full page riddles for your most advanced students to create independently.

✅ A card game, "The Greatest Factor"

✅ A ten-question self-correcting Easel assessment

✅ Suggestions for more ways to use these cards in your math centers.

The mixed practice in this set will really help you see who "gets it"!

Here are some ways that you might use these math task cards in your teaching!

* Use in a math center (math rotation) for individual or partner work

* Use the full-page riddle cards on your interactive board for whole class review or to focus attention at the beginning of a math lesson

* Display a card with your document camera as an engaging focus to start 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 – a volunteer can work with individual students or partners and complete as few or as many as time allows!

* Use for math intervention, RTI, or tutoring - keep the fun in learning math!.

Here's what teachers are saying about this factors and multiples resource!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gale said, "My students were excited to use this resource for enrichment when they had completed the regular programming work that was assigned. My students were very engaged in the topic while using this resource. It was fun and very thorough and allowed us to cover necessary outcomes very efficiently and effectively."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kelly said, "I used these with my fourth graders to review factors and multiples. They provided the right amount of challenge. The format was interesting to my students because it was different than traditional worksheets."

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