Kindergarten Number Sense Activities Math Riddles Set 1

Are you looking for an activity that will build early math skills and keep your young mathematicians engaged and thinking all year, whether at school or at home? This set of 100 number sense riddles for kindergarten is just what you need!

You'll save $ and get 200 RIDDLES when you purchase this set bundled with Kindergarten Number Sense Riddles Set 2 . Click here to see it!

* PLEASE NOTE: This is not a digital resource. These cards can, of course, be displayed on a laptop or tablet, but are designed to be used as separate printable cards, hundred charts, and recording pages.

Teachers, start your online lessons with a riddle! Use your snipping tool to create a jpeg of a riddle card and email it to families the day before, encouraging some discussion at home. Then talk about the solution together during your meeting. You'll get lots of talk about numbers!

Parents, choose 2-4 cards each day to read and discuss with your child to keep their kindergarten math skills sharp without lots of tedious worksheets: math vocabulary, mental math, and writing numbers, plus the skills listed below.

Here are the skills included in this set:
⭐ Sequence of numbers 0-100
⭐ Early addition (plus zero, plus one, plus two)
⭐ More than/less than/between
⭐ Counting by tens
⭐ Number patterns
⭐ Ten frames
⭐ Characteristics of 2D shapes

Each card has a three clue riddle for a number between one and 100. Solving the clues will help your students practice a wide variety of standards-based math skills!

There are so many ways to use these cards!
⭐ Expand your calendar activities by solving one or more riddles each day. For even more practice, circle the answers on a hundred chart.
⭐ Start a lesson with a warm-up riddle to build number sense.
⭐ Riddles are a great way to review math vocabulary.
⭐ Make this riddle set part of your 100th Day celebration!
⭐ Practice identifying key details by modeling how riddles are solved. This will lay the foundation for comprehension skills like making inferences and drawing conclusions, and help your students understand how these skills apply across the curriculum.

⭐ Got a spare moment to fill? Riddles make a great sponge activity!
⭐ Use a riddle as a starting point for your daily number talk. Challenge your students to come up with another clue for the number.
⭐ After you've worked together to solve a few math riddles, your students will enjoy writing riddles together. What a fun way to bring math into shared writing!
⭐ Make solving a riddle part of your Morning Meeting activities.

This resource includes…
♦ 100 riddle cards, printed two to a page
♦ Answer Key
♦ A themed hundred chart and a 120 chart, too, in case that's what your school is
using
♦ Two gameboard style charts to record whole class progress with the riddle cards,
with each in both color and blackline versions
♦ Two whole class graphs to use with the riddles, each with data analysis questions
♦ Bonus Center Activity! 35 number sequence strips for 1-100.

Here's what buyers have said:

"This is a fantastic resource! I put it on the door each morning and the kids have until math time to try and figure out the answer to the riddle. We then take it up as a class at the beginning of our math workshop. The kids can't wait to read and solve the riddle. They are so engaged. It is wonderful. Thank you!"

"I post these on my Morning Message and the kids LOVE them! They come into the classroom and go straight to the riddle!"

"This is a great resource to use as independent work that can easily be differentiated! I really love these and so do my students."

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