SamizdatMath

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

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

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

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!

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.