These New Year's and winter math activities to challenge your high flying 2nd and 3rd grade students with advanced math problem solving FUN this January. Includes printable winter math worksheets + digital Google Slides versions! These January math challenges & brainteasers have engaging holiday and winter themes students love, and are a perfect way to extend and enrich your advanced second and third grade mathematicians' learning!

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You'll be set for the whole month with 25 NO PREP printable + virtual math activities and answer keys you can use for second and third grade math centers, homework worksheets, fast finishers, number talks, New Year's activities, Zoom meetings, math enrichment contracts, small groups, or whole class problem solving.

January themes include: New Year's, penguins, sledding, football, yeti, polar bears, and snow

Recommended as a challenge for 2nd and 3rd grade students.

Included in this pack:

12 Math Challenges

• Penguin Feast (Guess and check, organizing data, adding one and 2-digit numbers to 100)
• 2015 NFL Stats (Logical thinking, adding and subtracting 3-digit numbers)
• Record Snowfall (Place value with 4-digits, adding multiple 1-digit numbers)
• Snow Totals (Patterns, adding and subtracting with one-half from whole numbers)
• Hot Cocoa Combos (Combinations, organizing data)
• Highest Scoring Super Bowl (Guess and check, adding & subtracting 2-digit numbers)
• Super Bowl Blowout (Guess and check, adding & subtracting 2-digit numbers)
• Snowball Switch #1 (Logical thinking, guess and check, adding multiple 1-digit numbers)
• Snowball Switch #2 (Logical thinking, guess and check, adding multiple 1 and 2-digit numbers)
• Sledding #1 (Multiplying 2-digit numbers, easier)
• Sledding #2 (Multiplying 3 and 1-digit numbers, converting miles to feet, more difficult)
• New Year’s Party Plans (Elapsed time, logical thinking)

All math challenges come with a lined page for written responses focused on strategies students used to solve the problem

13 Brainteasers

• Polar Bear Picnic (Logical thinking, guess and check)
• Yeti Yard Sale (Logical thinking, adding and subtracting money up to $10.00)
• New Year’s Equations (Mixed operations, writing equations totaling 1-100)
• Snow Days (Logical thinking, calendar math) 2 versions included (fill-in-calendar/create-a-calendar)
• Snowball Sums #1 (Logical thinking, guess and check, adding 2-digit numbers less than 20, easier)
• Snowball Sums #2 (Logical thinking, guess and check, adding 1 and 2-digit numbers, more difficult)
• Super Bowl Balancing #1 (Addition and subtraction to 20, balancing equations, easier)
• Super Bowl Balancing #2 (Addition and subtraction to 100, balancing equations, difficult)
• SNOW Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
• JAN 1st Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
• WINTER Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
• FROZEN Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
• SNOWFLAKE Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, most difficult)

Also includes

• Student resource page with common conversions and extra info students might need to help solve these problems.
• Link to an interactive Google Slides version
• Google Slides FAQ and tutorial videos
• Answer keys for every problem

Check out the preview to see all challenges, brainteasers, and answer keys.

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Katie

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