In this activity students will be Math Detectives and use their knowledge of place value and number sense to read the clues and figure out the mystery number! There are 3 levelled puzzles that increase in difficulty. Once students understand the format of the Number Detective Challenge, they can create their own challenge for their friends to solve.

This is a great activity to reinforce place value concepts and students enjoy the challenge. It can be used for your full class or as a differentiated activity for enrichment students. This activity is ideal for grade 2-3 students.

Product Includes:

3 levelled Number Detective Challenge Puzzles

Answer Key for all puzzles

1 draft template for students to plan their own puzzle

1 good copy template for students to finalize their puzzle and display it!

* Please note this resource is in PDF format. For distance learning purposes, students will need to print the worksheets themselves. I posted it in Google Drive for my students and they easily accessed it*

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