Keep your students excited about learning with this fun set of pirate themed critical thinking math challenge riddle cards, designed to build critical thinking & mental math skills. An ideal challenge for your early finishers!

Here's how these challenging math riddle cards work!

Choosing from the nine possible answers on each of the cards, your students will determine the Pirate's Secret Number by using a variety of math clues plus critical reasoning to eliminate eight of the options.

What does this math review set include?

• 24 printable riddle puzzle cards in color, printed with four cards on each page
• The same 24 printable cards in black and white, as an option to save your ink
• 24 jpegs with one riddle on each page, for easy use on your digital devices with your favorite apps
• An easy prep one-page board game to practice mental math skills with adding two-digit numbers

What math skills are included in these activities?

♦ Add and subtract two-digit numbers, with and without regrouping

♦ Compare numbers using > and < symbols

♦ Distinguish even and odd numbers

♦ Know the value of US coins and use them in problem-solving

How can I use these addition, subtraction, and place value activities with my class?

♦ Use in a math center for individual or partner work

♦ Use for whole class review with your document camera

♦ Use as a skills review rotation, with students moving to stations around the
classroom individually or with a partner to solve the riddles

♦ Use for morning “bell ringers”

♦ Use as enrichment or for early finishers

♦ Use the full page versions as morning work - engage your students right
from the start in fun and productive activities to prepare them for the day!

♦ The slides are a great way to introduce the cards, and to model the critical
thinking skills required to solve them, like identifying key details, making
inferences, and drawing conclusions.

♦ Project a slide for something new and different in daily number talks!

Here's what teachers are saying about these pirate math challenges!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Donnalyn said, "I loved this resource! It was just challenging enough to keep my students engaged without becoming discouraged. Thanks so much!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mary Ann said, "My students LOVE these! The cards have been a great review of certain concepts, and an introduction to others. I like that these are challenging to my students, but not beyond their ability to figure out."

✅ SAVE when you buy these riddles in this bundle of 96 riddle task cards for math and critical thinking! CLICK HERE to see Math Enrichment Riddles for Addition, Subtraction, & Place Value - Critical Thinking Challenge!

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