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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 Clip Clue Math Puzzles [Distance Learning]

Clip Clue Math Puzzles [Distance Learning]

Want to give your students’ brain cells a real workout? Then these are the puzzles for you! Use knowledge of sums, differences, products, fractions, symmetry, and order to create paperclip chains that match the clues. Great for gifted students and anybody who likes a challenge. A fun way to keep minds active during the summer or on trips. Appropriate all the way up to adults, so you can enjoy a family puzzle time. 66 puzzles. 24 pages. Note: 35 of these puzzles were originally published by MindW
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
Preview of Aba-Conundrums Level B Distance Learning

Aba-Conundrums Level B Distance Learning

Hone problem solving and critical thinking skills while becoming familiar with what’s probably the oldest math manipulative created by humans. That’s what Aba-Conundrums are all about! These 60 fun puzzles will stretch students’ thinking as they use clues to figure out secret abacus numbers. The puzzles are challenging, and students will find they need to ask themselves important critical-thinking questions such as: Did I read each clue carefully?Is that really what that clue says?Am I making
Preview of Aba-Conundrums Level A Distance Learning

Aba-Conundrums Level A Distance Learning

Hone problem solving and critical thinking skills while becoming familiar with what’s probably the oldest math manipulative created by humans. That’s what Aba-Conundrums are all about! These 60 fun puzzles will stretch students’ thinking as they use clues to figure out secret abacus numbers. The puzzles are challenging, and students will find they need to ask themselves important critical-thinking questions such as: Did I read each clue carefully?Is that really what that clue says?Am I making
Preview of Math Path Puzzles Level D [Distance Learning]

Math Path Puzzles Level D [Distance Learning]

An engaging route to learning, using math reasoning along the way. Start with the first number in a puzzle, fill in missing numbers, operation signs, or sometimes even the roads themselves, to end at the last number. The fun is in figuring out what will fit for the missing parts. Working both backwards and forwards, students develop an understanding of the relationships between addition and subtraction and between multiplication and division. Although I have listed the grade range as 5th-8th,
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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.