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Promote critical thinking with problem-solving games that challenge students to find solutions. This collection includes logic puzzles, strategy games, and real-world scenarios. By integrating these games into your lessons, you can enhance analytical skills and encourage innovative thinking.
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Two review sheets support a Find Someone Who routine using prior-grade mathematics. Model how partners exchange papers, solve a problem and compare responses, then rotate partners using the supplied directions. Use the completed checking pages to revisit questions afterward.
This activity is great for helping students to understand how to apply the multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers to real world problems. It is a great way to get students thinking about how they can use math in their everyday lives.
Combine a classroom exchange activity with review of fifth-grade math. Students find classmates to solve problems involving fractions, decimals, geometry, and order of operations. Two sixteen-problem versions, answer keys, and step-by-step directions support running the activity and discussing the solutions afterward.
Engage 5th/6th grade students in an 8-day Christmas-themed math mystery activity where daily math tasks (decimal division/multiplication, elapsed time, data lookups) each reveal a clue toward finding Santa's hiding spot.
The 5th Grade Order of Operations Scavenger Hunt This is a dynamic pedagogical tool designed specifically for the fifth-grade mathematics curriculum .
Review a range of 6th grade math skills (ratios, unit rate, order of operations, percent, equations, inequalities, fraction/decimal operations, coordinate plane distance, GCF) through two slide-driven bingo review games.
Do you need some new ideas for your 6th grade math unit to meet the Common Core State Standards for Expressions and Equations? Here is a ready-to-go bundle with seven fun real-life activities to incorporate into your unit plan.
Review Grade 8 math skills (right-triangle side length via Pythagorean theorem/trig, coordinate-plane distance, parallel-line angle pairs, comparing numbers in radical/decimal/mixed form, rate-time-distance, unit cost, approximate position of a radical on a number line) through a teacher-led BINGO game format.
Review Grade 8 math skills (distance-rate-time, unit price, systems of equations, slope of a line from a graph/equation/two points, y-intercept from a graph) through a teacher-led BINGO game format.
A 10-station Thanksgiving-themed escape-room activity (PowerPoint format) in which students solve a sequence of puzzles -- word unscrambles, matching, a number cipher, math word problems, riddles, a letter hunt, a word search, story sequencing, and a final riddle -- to find where the Thanksgiving feast has 'disappeared' to.
Digital, self-checking Christmas-themed escape room reinforcing evaluating algebraic expressions and order of operations.
This resource was developed to meet the requirements of the 7th Grade Geometry Standard below: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.B.5 Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a multi-step problem to write and solve…
Activity Introduction An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about STEM. Archimedes’ Puzzle Do you like STEM subjects? what is your favorite one? Have you ever tried to plant a seed? If yes, tell us more about it.
Pi and the Lost Digits Escape Room: Fun Way to Master Circles! Take your middle school math classes to a whole different dimension with this unforgettable Pi and the Lost Digits Escape Room! No prep is required, but this interactive activity will make your students do some serious calculations regarding circles: area, circumference, and…
This back-to-school themed digital escape room is the perfect tool to engage and motivate your middle schoolers while they review grade-eight math concepts! With a captivating storyline and various math problems to solve, this escape room is designed to make learning fun and interactive. This escape room is packed with 50 carefully…
A digital self-checking Google Sheets activity for practicing finding the area of circles, delivered as a mystery-picture-reveal game.
A themed math 'escape room' activity where students solve math problems at stations to earn code digits and unlock a final code, for Grade 2 review.
This resource is a Comparing Whole Numbers Mystery Challenge. This is an active engagement activity that your math students will love. You will receive set up directions to prepare for the mystery challenge.
Practice solving one- and two-step addition/subtraction word problems within 100 using a game format.
A collaborative, holiday-themed escape room combining reading, math, and puzzle-solving skills for upper-elementary students.
A classroom scavenger-hunt unit review covering 7th-grade Expressions & Equations standards (distributive property, factoring, equivalent expressions, solving equations/inequalities, multi-step real-world percent problems).
A holiday-themed, code-cracking escape room activity for early-elementary students practicing early math, phonics/vocabulary, and problem-solving.
Reviews 6th-grade statistics standards (measures of center and variability) through a cut-and-glue scavenger hunt activity, with an accompanying digital (Google Slides) version.
A 'Find Someone Who' bingo-style math game reinforcing fraction concepts (identifying, comparing, adding, and converting fractions).