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Kentucky, United States
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I’m Evelyn Christensen, a former teacher with a doctorate in math education. I love to create resources to make learning fun! I have 15 years of teaching experience, including most levels from kindergarten to graduate school. The majority of my teaching was at the elementary level, because that’s my favorite age.
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Preview of Venn Puzzlers Level B [Distance Learning]

Venn Puzzlers Level B [Distance Learning]

Challenging Venn diagram math puzzles based on nursery rhymes! A fun way to improve problem-solving skills, learn to use visual diagrams to organize information, strengthen abilities to analyze data and see relationships, and practice reading for details—all while exercising math skills. 48 puzzles (one per page). For grades 3rd-6th. Note: These puzzles were originally published by MindWare as Venn Perplexors Level B. Please visit my TpT store for more puzzles: Evelyn Christensen Puzzles-Math-an
Preview of Coin Clue Puzzles Level B [Distance Learning]

Coin Clue Puzzles Level B [Distance Learning]

A chance to make your money count for more! Make it count for fun and great thinking adventures with these challenging logic and math puzzles. Skills developed and exercised by these puzzles activities include: • analyzing statements about relationships • integrating two or more constraints on a system in the process of finding a solution • generating more than one solution to a problem • discovering redundant information in the problem solving situation • developing precise,
Preview of Coin Clue Puzzles Level A [Distance Learning]

Coin Clue Puzzles Level A [Distance Learning]

Delightful mind-stretchers that: • Reinforce names and values of coins and counting money • Provide practice with concepts of more/less, odd/even, before/after/between, ordinal numbers, and symmetry • Strengthen reading or listening skills • Encourage following directions • Build reasoning and logic skills The object of each puzzle is to put coins in a line to match the clues. The suggested age range is K-3. The book has 108 puzzles. Note: The puzzles were first published by Nasco
Preview of Coin Clue Puzzles - Making Change [Distance Learning]

Coin Clue Puzzles - Making Change [Distance Learning]

Cash in on fun learning while mastering the skill of making change. Knowing how to make change is important. Coin Clue Puzzles - Making Change is loaded with engaging puzzles designed to help students become proficient and confident when changing coins. Clever clues also build logic and deductive reasoning skills. First figure out the change (with the correct number of coins) that should be received from a purchase. Then add in some extra, designated coins. Finally, put all the coins in correct
Preview of Tan-Tastic Tangrams

Tan-Tastic Tangrams

Not your usual tangram puzzles. Most tangram puzzles use all 7 pieces and ask for only 1 solution. This book features puzzles that encourage problem solvers to be flexible in their thinking by asking for multiple solutions. We need good problem solvers in our world, and good problem solvers are able to tackle problems using lots of different approaches. The puzzles start very simply (2 tans) and help students understand the relationships among the pieces. This is key to being able to change th
Preview of Adventures with Area Distance Learning

Adventures with Area Distance Learning

Fun activities to ensure kids understand the concept of area and perimeter and don’t just memorize a formula. This book is full of intriguing figures (like rockets, castles, birds, and foxes) which look, at first glance, as if finding their areas would be really hard. The key, however, is in using problem solving skills to break the puzzle figures down into parts, and the book helps kids learn, step by step, that they really do have the ability to master the challenges! These puzzles were origi
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About the store

Experience

I’m Evelyn Christensen, a former teacher with a doctorate in math education. I love to create resources to make learning fun! I have 15 years of teaching experience, including most levels from kindergarten to graduate school. The majority of my teaching was at the elementary level, because that’s my favorite age.

Teaching style

I taught Montessori for 4 years and afterwards continued with a modified Montessori approach with lots of hands-on activities and individualized instruction.

Awards & shining teacher moments

Phi Beta Kappa. My Inchimals (published by Fat Brain Toys) won a Teachers' Choice Award, a NAPPA award, and a Creative Child award. My Aba-Conundrums (also published by Fat Brain Toys) won a Parents' Choice Award and a Creative Child award.

My own education history

BA in Mathematics + 7-12th teaching certification from Agnes Scott College. MA in Mathematics, EdD in Mathematics Education, Montessori certification, and teaching certification for grades K-6th from University of Kentucky.

Additional biographical information

I am also an author. More than 50 of my educational puzzle books and math games have been published by traditional publishers, with total sales of more than half a million copies. Feel free to visit my author website at http://evelynchristensen.com.