Addition gets more complicated when there are more addends with more digits! Your second grade and third grade students will love to practice adding 3 two-digit numbers with the riddle cards, games, and worksheets in this set!

On each of the 48 riddle cards, your students will determine the Secret Number by using a variety of clues to eliminate three options, choosing from the four possible answers on each card.

Here are the resources in this bundle:

* Cool in School Math Riddle Activities for Adding Three Two-Digit Numbers

* Shark's Sums Math Riddle Activities for Adding Three Two-Digit Numbers

Here's what you'll get!

• 24 cool in school riddle cards in color, printing with four cards on each page
• The same slides in full-page format
• A student recording page and answer key, for independent use in a math center or just to make your teacher life a bit easier! :)
• A themed 120 chart to provide extra support as needed
• A worksheet format of the riddles, with six pages of riddles and an additional four pages for math and writing, with students writing to justify their answers. These are great practice for standardized tests!
• A themed one page addition game for your math rotations or centers
• 24 shark riddle cards in color, printed with four cards on each page
• A student recording page and answer key, for independent use in a math center
• A shark-themed 120 chart to provide extra support as needed
• A shark-themed one page addition game perfect for your math centers!

The worksheets are currently only available for the Cool in School set.

Here are some options for using this bundle.

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

♦ The full-page riddles 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 full-page riddle to use for something new in daily number talks!

♦ Use the worksheets as classwork or homework. Cut them apart and use as exit tickets. Perfect to add to your plans for a substitute teacher, and ideal to send with students who have planned extended absences for family vacations, etc.

*** Please note: The riddles in Cool in School are identical to those in Elf's Secret Number, a seasonal math riddle set. In addition to different graphics, the Elf's Number set does not include the worksheets.

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