Leprechaun Lou's Mathematical Adventure

We are always looking for fun ways to incorporate learning activities into the holidays. This is an engaging activity that will have students practice reading and math for St. Patrick’s Day after reading an adventure story about a leprechaun.

This is a Mathematical St. Patrick’s Day Adventure titled Leprechaun Lou and the Elusive Pot of Gold. This resource is designed for 3rd – 4th grade math students. It may also be a great challenge for some of your 2nd grade students.

This can be used as an independent early finisher activity. You may also choose to have students complete it together during small groups or math centers on St. Patrick’s Day, or even complete it as a class.

Students will begin by reading a 2-page story. You may encourage students to pay close attention to the many numbers in the story and let them know that they will answer questions about many of these numbers afterwards.

There will be 13 math word problems for students to read and answer. In order to solve the equations, they will need to revisit the text (great practice with rereading and searching for text evidence!) Each problem will prompt students to write an equation to solve the problem. An answer key is included.

The last piece of this adventure is a writing prompt for students to respond to. They will be presented with a dilemma from Leprechaun Lou and will be writing about how to help Lou solve the dilemma.

I hope you enjoy!

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A 9 page printable PDF