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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 Logic Puzzles Level A [Distance Learning]

Clip Clue Logic Puzzles Level A [Distance Learning]

Paperclips have never been such a fun way to exercise your brain. Read the clues, use your logic, and sequence a chain of colors to match the clues. In the second half of the book, find two solutions for each puzzle; then write a clue to go with each solution. Great for gifted students and anybody who likes a challenge. A fun way to keep minds active during the summer or on trips. 65 puzzles. 33 pages. Note: these puzzles were originally published by Dale Seymour Publications in Clip-Clue Puzzle
Preview of Clip Clue Logic Puzzles Level B [Distance Learning]

Clip Clue Logic Puzzles Level B [Distance Learning]

Wow! Paperclips have been transformed into the exercise equipment for your brain’s fun workout session. Read the clues, use your logic, and sequence a chain of colors to match the clues. But then it gets more challenging! Sometimes you find two solutions for each puzzle, or you look for unneeded clues, or you might even find a puzzle with no solution. 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
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 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 Venn Puzzlers Level A Distance Learning

Venn Puzzlers Level A Distance Learning

These fun activities involve sorting words and pictures into sets and subsets using Venn diagrams. They help children: • develop their abilities to see relationships. • distinguish similarities and differences. • classify a variety of objects and words. • build reading vocabulary and logic skills. • have practice with concepts such as living/non-living, plants/animals, hot/cold, big/little, soft/hard, etc. The first half of the book has pictures with words; the second half has just wo
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 Michigan Puzzles

Michigan Puzzles

Add some challenge and zip to your students' study of Michigan with these 30 fun, educational puzzles that tie in with the state's history, culture, economy, and geography. The book is interdisciplinary, tapping into the students' knowledge of math, logic, words, factual information, and visual problem solving. The puzzles range in difficulty from fairly easy to complex, which make them ideal for homeschooling, family fun times, and classrooms that have a range of ability levels. They can be a
Preview of Minnesota Puzzles

Minnesota Puzzles

Add some challenge and zip to your students' study of Minnesota with these 30 fun, educational puzzles that tie in with the state's history, culture, economy, and geography. The book is interdisciplinary, tapping into the students' knowledge of math, logic, words, factual information, and visual problem solving. The puzzles range in difficulty from fairly easy to complex, which make them ideal for homeschooling, family fun times, or classrooms that have a range of ability levels. They can be ass
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 Word Wrappers Level A Distance Learning

Word Wrappers Level A Distance Learning

Fun reading and word challenges! Small words wrapped within longer words await students’ ingenuity in identifying them, correctly spelling them, and strategically locating them in sentences to produce logical statements. This resource includes 30 pages of 8 puzzle sentences on each page. In addition to being great fun, the puzzles can also help improve reading skills. Good readers are often able to figure out unknown words by logically considering possibilities based on context and sentence s
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,
Preview of Tactic Twisters Level B

Tactic Twisters Level B

Do you or your kids enjoy maze-like puzzles that require your best logic skills? Then these140+ challenges will give you a fun workout. Think your way through them as you twist, turn, bend, and loop around to discover the correct paths. The book has four different styles to sharpen your problem-solving skills. These puzzles were originally published by MindWare as a book by the same title. I hope you'll also check out my other puzzles and resources at: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store
Preview of Texas Puzzles

Texas Puzzles

Add some challenge and zip to your students' study of Texas with these 30 fun, educational puzzles that tie in with the state's history, culture, economy, and geography. The book is interdisciplinary, tapping into the students' knowledge of math, logic, words, factual information, and visual problem solving. The puzzles range in difficulty from fairly easy to complex, which make them ideal for homeschooling, family fun times, or classrooms that have a range of ability levels. They can be assigne
Preview of Word Wrappers Level B Distance Learning

Word Wrappers Level B Distance Learning

Fun reading and word challenges! Small words wrapped within longer words await students’ ingenuity in identifying them, correctly spelling them, and strategically locating them in sentences to produce logical statements. This resource includes 30 pages of 8 puzzle sentences on each page. In addition to being great fun, the puzzles can also help improve reading skills. Good readers are often able to figure out unknown words by logically considering possibilities based on context and sente
Preview of Kentucky Puzzles Distance Learning

Kentucky Puzzles Distance Learning

These 30 fun, educational puzzles tie in with Kentucky’s history, culture, economy, and geography. Let them add some challenge and zip to your students’ study of the state. The book is interdisciplinary, tapping into the students' knowledge of math, logic, words, factual information, and visual problem solving. The puzzles range in difficulty from fairly easy to complex, which make them ideal for homeschooling, family fun times, or classrooms that have a range of ability levels. They can be assi
Preview of Tactic Twisters Level A

Tactic Twisters Level A

Do you or your kids enjoy maze-like puzzles that require your best logic skills? Then these140+ challenges will give you a fun workout. Think your way through them as you twist, turn, bend, and loop around to discover the correct paths. The book has four different styles to sharpen your problem-solving skills. These puzzles were originally published by MindWare as a book by the same title. I hope you'll also check out my other puzzles and resources at: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store
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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.