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36 printable pages to help your students develop their problem-solving skills. The goal of each page is to divide the zoo animals into separate enclosures by drawing two, three, four or five straight lines (fences). On some pages, students separate the predators from their prey (panther and sheep), while on other pages each hungry animal is enclosed with its food source (a bird with a worm, a spider with a fly, a penguin with a fish). Students can use wooden skewers (from Walmart or the Dollar Store) to help them solve the problem before marking the page with a pencil. As students place a skewer here or there, they employ the strategy of Guess and Check. The increasing difficulty level within this packet will surely capture the attention of your students, and an answer key (with nine solutions on one page) will keep you from pulling your hair out.
Take a look at the Preview to see nine sample pages from level four of this packet. And if you would like more math activities, then click on one of these links:
Triangles and Circles and Rectangles
Identifying Polygons: Plane and Solid Figures
Problem Solving: Building Fences at the Zoo
Cubes, Cylinders and Rectangular Prisms
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36 printable pages to help your students develop their problem-solving skills. The goal of each page is to divide the zoo animals into separate enclosures by drawing two, three, four or five straight lines (fences). On some pages, students separate the predators from their prey (panther and sheep), while on other pages each hungry animal is enclosed with its food source (a bird with a worm, a spider with a fly, a penguin with a fish). Students can use wooden skewers (from Walmart or the Dollar Store) to help them solve the problem before marking the page with a pencil. As students place a skewer here or there, they employ the strategy of Guess and Check. The increasing difficulty level within this packet will surely capture the attention of your students, and an answer key (with nine solutions on one page) will keep you from pulling your hair out.
Take a look at the Preview to see nine sample pages from level four of this packet. And if you would like more math activities, then click on one of these links:
Triangles and Circles and Rectangles
Identifying Polygons: Plane and Solid Figures
Problem Solving: Building Fences at the Zoo
Cubes, Cylinders and Rectangular Prisms
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