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Differentiated Real World Math Projects | Open-Ended Problem Solving Tasks
This bundle brings together 7 differentiated open-ended math projects for 4th grade and 5th grade students — each one a low floor high ceiling real-world problem solving task available at two levels of challenge. This isn't a worksheet collection. It's a thinking collection. Save up to 30% compared to purchasing individually.Each project puts students in a real situation — managing a budget, planning a meal, making strategic decisions — and asks them to figure out what to do, show their work, an
3rd - 5th
Arithmetic, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
4.MD.A.2
, 3.NBT.A.2
, 4.NBT.B.4
+7
Sleepover Differentiated Math Project | Open-Ended Problem Solving | 4th 5th
This differentiated open-ended math project challenges 4th grade and 5th grade students with real-world problem solving centered around planning the perfect sleepover. Students apply money skills, elapsed time, basic multiplication, and multi-step problem solving through a low floor high ceiling task — at two levels so every learner is challenged. This isn't a worksheet. It's a thinking task.Your students are going to plan an entire sleepover — choosing movies, ordering food, managing a budget,
3rd - 5th
Arithmetic, Math, Money Math
CCSS
3.MD.A.1
, 4.MD.A.2
, 3.NBT.A.2
+5
MEGA Math Mazes Bundle: 1st-6th Grade Morning Work, Test Prep, Spiral Review
Our multi-grade level Math Mazes bundle is perfect for morning work, test prep, and spiral review. Review 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th grade math skills with this multi-grade level bundle of 240 Math Mazes. We include 2 options: no-prep worksheets & google slides Teacher Feedback: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“My kiddos LOVED this! It was a fun twist on doing the same math, and they didn't even know they were reinforcing their learning! Thanks so much :) Math time is a happier time in my room now!” - Jenny R
1st - 6th
Math, Math Test Prep
Rebus Puzzles Brain Teasers Critical Thinking Bell Work Grade 7 8 9 10
Challenge your Grade 7, 8, 9, and 10 students with 80 unique Rebus Puzzles, also called Wacky Wordies, that build critical thinking & problem-solving skills through wordplay and visual logic. Available in both printable PDF & Google Slides™ formats, this bundle is ready to use with zero preparation. Answer keys included for all 80 puzzles. No time to read the description? Click View Preview to get a bigger view! What Are Rebus Puzzles? Rebus puzzles (Wacky Wordies) challenge students to deco
7th - 10th
English Language Arts
AP Art History Go Fish Game | 250 Works Review Activity | Test Prep/Connections
AP Art History Go Fish: Connections Game – Review Activity for the 250 WorksMake reviewing the 250 works of art engaging, interactive, and academically meaningful with this AP Art History Go Fish: Connections Edition game! This activity transforms a familiar card game into a structured review that reinforces key art historical concepts, vocabulary, and connections across time periods, themes, media, and artistic traditions. Students play using classic "Go Fish" rules while practicing higher-lev
9th - 12th
Art History, Visual Arts, World History
CSI Mystery Reading Comprehension | Inference & Logic Problem-Solving Activity
Build essential inference, logic, and critical thinking skills with this classroom-favorite CSI Basics Bundle, featuring BOTH the Printable and Digital versions. Perfect for Grades 4–7, this Crime Scene Investigation starter set introduces students to the foundations of deductive reasoning, evidence analysis, and crime scene protocol using engaging, kid-friendly activities. Whether you teach in a 1:1 digital classroom, need an easy-prep enrichment lesson, or want a flexible hybrid l
4th - 7th
English Language Arts, Forensics, Informational Text
CCSS
RL.4.1
, RL.5.1
, RL.6.1
+7
Visual Puzzles | Bell Ringers, Early Finisher, STEM, STEAM, Problem Solving
Start your class with a brief 5 minute puzzle activity and challenge your students to visually problem solve and help expand their critical thinking skills! Solving visual puzzle problems have been proven to improve visual-spatial reasoning, enhanced problem-solving skills, increased attention to detail, improve memory, and patience. This "pack" includes: One worksheet with five problems for each day of the weekAnswer sheet and hints to help students solve problemsDigital Google Slides version
5th - 12th
Other (Arts), Other (Science), Visual Arts
Mysteries & More Thinkercise Puzzles for Problem Solving - PDF & Google Formats
***NEW! 2020 Revision*** Added additional files for links to Google Slides version and individual PDF copies of each Thinkercise for easy virtual learning integration! Perfect for challenging students during remote teaching :) 20 Single-Page Sheets of Mystery-Themed Problem Solving Puzzles! And MORE… --Each Thinkercise mystery-themed page includes five different puzzle formats – focusing on linguistic, visual, logic, and mathematical multiple intelligences. --Depending on digital resources avail
3rd - 5th
For All Subjects, Math
Visual Puzzles 2 | Bell Ringers, Early Finisher, STEM, STEAM, Problem Solving
Start your class with a brief 5 minute puzzle activity and challenge your students to visually problem solve and help expand their critical thinking skills! Here's a second version with five new puzzles. Solving visual puzzle problems have been proven to improve visual-spatial reasoning, enhanced problem-solving skills, increased attention to detail, improve memory, and patience. This "pack" includes: One worksheet with five problems for each day of the weekAnswer sheet and hints to help student
6th - 12th
Other (Arts), Other (Science), Visual Arts
EDITABLE Student-led Project Work Schedule
Empower your students to design their own work schedule for a larger project. Students will use this worksheet to create goals for each workday and reflect on their work habits.
7th - 12th
Other (ELA), Writing
Christmas Math Fluency Task Cards for early finishers, enrichment, station work
Enhance your holiday season with these engaging Christmas-themed math fluency task cards! Perfect for enrichment, station work, differentiation, or early finishers, these festive cards will add a touch of seasonal cheer to your math activities. Designed to challenge and inspire students, these task cards feature a variety of math skills wrapped up in a joyful Christmas package. From addition and subtraction to multiplication and division, these tasks are crafted to keep students excited about le
2nd - 5th
Math
Morning Work/Daily Warm-Up/Skills Sampler: Printable Google Slides for PreK-2
Use this editable & customizable worksheet to reinforce foundational skills in a playful, more creative way! Practicing the basics doesn't have to be long or boring. On a single 8.5x11" sheet, kids will practice name and date, letter and number formation and sequencing, counting to 20 using ten frames, and tracing or writing and reading words, phrases or a short sentence.Their favorite part will be using their creativity to briefly turn a letter or number into an object or scene by drawing.I
PreK - 2nd
English Language Arts, Math
CCSS
K.CC.A.2
, K.CC.A.3
, K.CC.B.5
+3
Solving Polynomial Equations | Find Zeros, Use Factoring, Apply Multiplicity
Solving Polynomial Equations: Zeros, Factors, Multiplicity | Algebra 2 Worksheet + Answer KeyThis comprehensive, editable Algebra 2 worksheet gives your students structured practice in solving polynomial equations by factoring, identifying zeros, and applying multiplicity. Designed with clarity and rigor, this resource helps students build a strong foundation in polynomial analysis—without the need for graphing. Whether used as independent practice, review, or an assessment tool, this worksheet
8th - 11th
Algebra, Algebra 2, Math Test Prep
CCSS
HSA-APR.B.3
, HSA-REI.B.4
Also included in: Algebra 2 Polynomial Functions Bundle | Editable Worksheets + Keys
Independent Reading Project - 2 min. speech - pitch your novel to the school
This creative, fun project works for any independent novel or even short story! The task is to deliver a 2-minute live persuasive speech convincing you, the English Department representative, that their independent reading novel deserves a place in the school’s English curriculum.This is a great connection to the real world, especially higher-level academia and the workforce, as it is in the style of a real curriculum proposal or academic defense. Included are: detailed directions, an opt
9th - 12th
Literature, Novel Studies, Reading
Math for Smarty Pants Pack #2 Print & Digital | Fast Finisher Brain Teasers
Keeping your early finishers challenged and working doesn't have to take extra time and effort on your part! This early finisher and gifted packet is no-prep with 27 ready-to-go brain teasers that are perfect for math extensions, math centers, individual and collaborative work, or math warm-ups. Click here to grab 130 Early Finisher activities and receive a HUGE discount!Detailed instructions are given including examples so that your students can work independently. The brain teasers are foc
3rd - 5th
Math
CCSS
MP1
, MP2
, MP3
+5
15 Easy-Moderate Printable Strategy Games + Slides™ Logic Critical Thinking
Build logic, strategy, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with this engaging collection of 15 printable pencil-and-paper strategy games — also included in Google Slides™ format for digital learning, centers, fast finishers, sub plans, homeschool, math enrichment, and partner work! These games are designed to be: ✅ Easy to learn ✅ Challenging to master ✅ Low-prep and reusable ✅ Fun for a wide range of ages and abilities Perfect for: Early finishers Math centers Gifted educatio
3rd - 6th
For All Subjects, Not Subject Specific, Other (Math)
CCSS
3.MD.B.3
, 4.MD.C.5
, K.OA.A.1
+21
Rebus Puzzles 2 Google Classroom Digital Version
Rebus Puzzles 2 are a fun critical thinking activity. Students must problem solve to figure out the word puzzles. Great logical reasoning puzzles to do with partners, or use as a warmup or bell ringer. This is a digital version of this resource for use with Google Slides. Students can type directly on the worksheet. Just choose which slides to assign in Google Classroom. You decide whether or not to provide the answer keys. If you want to print a hard copy of the worksheet, you can remove the "t
6th - 9th
English Language Arts
Missing Addends Word Problems - 2nd & 3rd Grade Missing Parts Word Problems
This set of 20 missing addend word problems (or missing part word problems!) reflects vital problem solving standards for grades 2 and 3. Problems ask students to decide whether or not to add or subtract and have the "missing addends" in various places in the problem. (Ex. 45 + __ = 74) Problems are included in FOUR formats:with multiple copies on a page to be cut out and glued into a math journalon reproducible pages to use as practice sheets (2 problems per page)on full sheet pages that giv
2nd - 4th
Basic Operations, Math Test Prep, Other (Math)
CCSS
2.NBT.B.5
, 2.NBT.B.6
, 2.NBT.B.7
+3
Rebus Puzzles 1 Google Classroom Digital Version
Rebus Puzzles 1 are a fun critical thinking activity. Students have to problem solve to figure out the word puzzles. Great logical reasoning puzzles to do with partners or use as a warm-up or bell ringer. This is a digital version of this resource for use with Google Slides. Students can type directly on the worksheet. Just choose which slides to assign in Google Classroom. You decide whether or not to provide the answer keys. If you want to print out a hard copy of the worksheet, you can simply
5th - 8th
English Language Arts
No Prep Enrichment Packets! Decimal, Fraction, Area Puzzles, Algebraic + LEVEL B
Print and go challenge pack includes 50+ challenging and creative tasks to boost problem solving skills, number sense and mental math in a fun way! Your fast finishers will love the puzzles and creative options and will likely struggle through a few! FINALLY! :) I have them arranged into 5 packets of 10 tasks each with cover sheets. The Mega Bundle includes ALL of the spiraled packets like this one and all 200 scaffolded tasks that are labeled A-E and are also organized by TOPIC so you can ea
4th - 8th
Mental Math, Place Value
Build Your Own Clock! No-Prep Hands-On Activity for Learning to Tell Time
This no-prep hands-on activity gives students the chance to build their very own clock with working hands! The student compares their work with a real clock in the classroom to determine where to paste each number and which hand is the minutes or hour hand. Then, using a brad (and maybe a bit of help from the teacher!) they can attach their clock hands to the clock face and use this tool to begin to make their own times. My students LOVED quizzing each other with these and getting to make it the
K - 3rd
Applied Math, Telling Time
School Logic Puzzles 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th Grade Brain Teasers - Print and Digital
These back to school logic puzzles are great for developing critical thinking and deductive reasoning. Use them as morning work, fast finishers activities or brain teasers. You will receive six different school logic puzzles and their answers. They are printable and also have a Google Slides version where students will drag and drop pre-populated Xs and Os to solve the puzzle. It also includes a tip sheet on how to solve logic puzzles. Back to School Logic Puzzle Themes (ranked easiest to hardes
4th - 7th
Other (ELA)
1st Grade Math Worksheets: Math Review Mazes, Test Prep, Interactive Notebook
Make math review fun with this GROWING bundle of 1st grade Math Mazes! Use during math stations, math homework, morning work, early finisher activities, or math test prep. ‼️Click the PREVIEW button & download 12 FREE Math Mazes‼️*Use during math intervention for upper elementary studentsOnce you purchase, you will gain access to the remaining Google Slides for FREE!Currently Included: Set 1: Operations & Algebraic Thinking (12 print & digital mazes) I can solve word problems involving addition
1st
Basic Operations, Math, Math Test Prep
CCSS
1.MD.A.1
, 1.MD.A.2
, 1.MD.B.3
+20
Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Performance Color Analysis
Enjoy Kendrick Lamar's historical Super Bowl performance and venture into the color symbolism and contextualization of his performance. This activity works well as an introductory to color symbolism in The Great Gatsby, but also functions well on its own as well!
10th - 12th
Balanced Literacy, Dance, Music
CCSS
CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
, CCRA.R.6
+7
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