Math Sudoku
- Grades
- Grades 4–6
- Pages
- 6
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Math
- Topic
- Sudoku, Math expressions
- Resource types
- Activities, Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
Product description
From the author
A sudoku with a mathematical twist! The starting clues are mathematical expressions; the remaining squares are blank. Students must solve the expression first before completing the puzzle. In the second activity, students will write their own expressions to make a puzzle using one of four supplied number-board templates!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Evaluate math expressions involving GCF, fractions, exponents, and square roots to determine a digit 1-9.
Apply Sudoku logic to complete a 9x9 grid so each row, column, and 3x3 box contains every digit once.
Write original math expressions, including fractions, exponents, and factorials, that evaluate to a specified digit.
Teaching tips
Start with Activity 1 (solving the pre-built expression Sudoku) before assigning Activity 2, which requires students to author their own expressions.
Edit the MustInclude directions field on the Make Your Own Math Sudoku page to match whatever unit topics the class has recently covered, as the teacher notes suggest.
Have students swap their completed Activity 2 boards with a partner to solve each other's puzzles as a peer-check step.
Skills covered
Mixed math-expression evaluation — students solve expressions involving GCF, fractions, exponents, and square roots to find each digit.
Sudoku logic — students apply row/column/box uniqueness rules to complete a 9x9 grid.
Original expression writing — students write their own math expressions for a target digit, incorporating fractions, exponents, and factorials.
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How does the puzzle-making activity work?
Students choose a supplied Sudoku board as a template, write expressions for its given numbers on the planning page, and transfer those expressions to the matching cells of a blank board.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
Sudoku logic
Order of operations
GCF
Exponents
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