SamizdatMath

Nadia Geddit wanted to get into her building, but she forgot the code to the lock. However, she did remember some clues about the code. These are 5 clues about the code: 1) The sum of the fifth digit and the third digit is 14. 2) The fourth digit is one more than the second digit. 3) The first digit is one less than twice the second digit. 4) The sum of the second and third digit is 10. 5) The sum of all five digits is 30. What 5 digits must Nadia press to make the lock open? How wo

October 3, 2014: Please note, this is now 87 fun filled pages, and includes everything below with additional activities: Activity: Dude, Where's My Locker? These are 10 different "clue games" about multiples and factors to find a locker. Includes a Do It Yourself sheet so your students can make their own problems and share them. Activity: Let's pick a number - my friend walks into the classroom with a jar of tiles labeled 1 - 100. She is blindfolded and makes the following offer: "If I pick ou

Winning Touch is a partner activity where students use tiles to fill in the products on a multiplication board. Each student starts with 4 tiles, and then a "shared" tile is chosen to be placed on the board to begin the game. Each student takes turns finding a combination of factors that will allow a tile to be placed on the board (for example, if the student has a tile marked "18", s/he can play it on 9 and 2, 2 and 9, 3 and 6, or 6 and 3. However, the tile must touch another tile that is alrea

Yes, you saw it with rats, turkeys and reindeers; fact it, you're eventually going to buy one of these, so why not snowmen and snowballs? NO JOKES PLEASE! Okay, the concept is simple: take the snowballs numbered from 1 - 6 and arrange them on the three sides so that each side adds up to 9. Rearrange them and they add up to 10. Do it again, and they add up to 11. Then do it one more time and they add up to 12. Record your results and see for the patterns that emerge in the corner numbers. Want

You've got the links, here are 75 different pattern puzzles for you to print out in full color, complete with answers. Set them up as math centers by putting the solutions on the back of the problem, use them as "problem of the day" or send them home with a bag of links for parents to solve with their kids. This set has 3 different types of pattern problems: • Problems where the student "continues" the pattern shown on the card; that is, the pattern shows the first 5 - 8 links that establishes

Jacob Lawrence was perhaps the preeminent painter of the Harlem Renaissance. During his lifetime, he produced among the most striking works that depicted everything from the northern migration of African Americans during the 1920s, to the daily life of the community in Harlem. His paintings incorporate many mathematical ideas, including patterns and geometry, as well as ratio and proportion. This activity makes use of a portion of his 1945 painting The Shoemaker to analyze Lawrence's use of dist

Our hero Samantha Sagacious: Number Detective, returns with 10 new mysteries, but this time she has a new tool at her disposal: the 1 - 100 chart. Your students will love solving each of these mysteries one at a time, either solo or in pairs at learning centers. Comes complete with answer key, and a set of "Do It Yourself" riddles that your students can create (and send to me!) for publication. Samantha Sagacious Rocks!

The game is simple, but the strategy will keep your students engaged for hours: roll 3 dice, choose 2, add the numbers together and cover up that number on the board. Except things aren't so easy: if you roll a 1, 1 and 6, should you combine 1 + 1 = 2, or 1 + 6 = 7? This game opens up some nice opportunities to discuss winning strategies using probability. A follow-up game, "The Big Cover Up," also uses 3 dice, but to make things even more fun, players have to choose between combining 1, 2 or 3

Do you have pattern blocks? Traditionally, we know the triangles as sixths, rhombi as thirds and trapezoids as halves. But what if we changed this a bit? Suppose the trapezoid was not 1/2, but 1/4? What would that make the green triangles? What would "1" look like? If you want to deepen your students' understanding of fractions using manipulatives and having children work together on a very engaging and challenging set of tasks, then you'll want to buy this. This unit, complete with lesson pla

These are among my favorite "hands on" puzzles to have my kids learn addition facts, or do remediation for those who are having problems "catching on." There are 10 different "bean puzzles" which can be cut out and glued to a paper plate. Number them 1 - 10 so kids can keep track of which ones they've completed (1 is the easiest, 10 is the most tricky.) Students complete the puzzle by taking dried kidney beans (or bean shaped counters) and distributing them in each pan so that two pans add up to

10 Christmas Pattern Puzzles, from the very easy to the very hard. Students cut out "stamps" at the bottom of the page and place them in the missing space. Watch out: there are more stamps than there are places to put them. And, at a fellow TpT member's suggestion, includes answer key!

This is a set of 10 different pattern puzzles with a Thanksgiving theme. Print out on card stock and cut out the answer pieces on the bottom, attach to the puzzles and let the kids go at it. Graded from very easy (puzzles 1 & 2) to very tricky (8 - 10). Great for math centers, individual or paired work, or just to keep yourself sane from eating too much candy corn.

Patterns are an essential part of the elementary math curriculum; these charming pattern puzzles are fun for kids: print on card stock, cut out the pieces and have the kids place them in the missing slots.

This set of 10 Halloween Themed Math Pattern Puzzles is perfect for partner work or math centers: print them out, leave out a pair of scissors and a glue stick and let your student decipher the patterns and figure out where to place the missing pieces. To make things more interesting, the puzzles go from easy (3 x 3 grid, 1 missing piece) to very complex (5 x 5 grid, 4 missing piece.) This includes 2, 3 and 4 part patterns.

Okay, okay, I know what you’re thinking: what’s the big idea? Isn’t this just like your other Halloween Pattern Puzzle, and really, does the world really need another one of those? And why did you switch graphics halfway through? Herewith: this is a more “crafty” kind of puzzle, in that you can have the kids cut out and put the correct stamps on the puzzle, then you can personalize it with a photo of the student in the middle, or maybe a drawing he/she made, or maybe you can put your own photo