40 Fabulous Math Mysteries Kids Can T Resist

Building serious math skills has never been so much fun!

Who doesn't love a mystery? Students will have a blast reading the adventures of kid detectives Zara and Mendel and their dog, Digit, and helping them solve intriguing math puzzlers along the way. In this collection of comical mysteries, students meld reading strategies, such as text marking, with essential math skills to tackle real-world problems. A delightful way to practice whole-number computation, fractions, measurement, geometry, algebraic reasoning, and so much more!

Intriguing math practice pages that reinforce skills in place value, odd and even numbers, addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division facts. Students solve problems and then use a key to color and reveal a mystery picture. Riddle clues on each page add to the fun! Unique and intriguing mystery format engages all learners. Self-checking activities encourage independent practice. Gives students the repeated math practice they need. Meets NCTM Standards!

Directed to teachers, facilitators, and counselors, offers more than 170 cooperative activities for classrooms, summer camps, and family occasions designed to improve children's problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate.

Kids stop, think, and predict as they solve skill-building word problems.

Stories and activities to build math problem-solving skills.

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Here are 51 interesting, true-to-life situations to motivate teenagers to apply math skills for solving everyday problems. For example, in the story "The Challenge" students use decimals and averages as they compare rival football teams' statistics. In "An Interesting Loan", they get practical experience working with money as they help Mike figure out how to pay for a new dirt bike. Each reproducible story is followed by three increasingly difficult groups of problems that focus on the same math topic, making it easy for students of all ability levels to develop the math skills being stressed in the lesson.