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A great way for students to check their work! Riddle Me This worksheets allow students to work both forwards and backwards, ensuring that their time is productive and that student work is celebrated! This riddle has students solving multi-step equations requiring them to combine like terms, and use the distributive property. Each numerical answer is translated to a key grid that provides another letter to the answer of the riddle: "What is the worst thing about outer space for a bodybuilder?"

RIDDLE ME THIS activities are student guided practice activities where each problem or expression provides a clue to a riddle! "Why did the cow keep jumping toward the stars?" helps students translate phrases using common mathematical terms into expressions that are commonly used in setting up equations in application problems.