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Khan Resources for Teachers

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SAU9 K-12 Math Curriculum Overview (updated July 2024) 

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Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics exudes enthusiasm for
students, how they think, and how those thoughts coalesce into powerful
thinking classrooms. It’s also deeply practical, describing how everything
from the teacher’s questions to the arrangement of the furniture can add to
your students’ learning.

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Our Mission

Multiplicity lab was founded at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy to support the teaching of mathematics as an ambitious, expansive, and just pursuit. We connect research in the learning sciences and mathematics education to the daily practices of teaching by providing resources, routines, and tasks worthy of students' and teachers' time.

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Multiplicity lab was founded at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy to support the teaching of mathematics as an ambitious, expansive, and just pursuit. We connect research in the learning sciences and mathematics education to the daily practices of teaching by providing resources, routines, and tasks worthy of students' and teachers' time.

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Intro to a Building Thinking Classroom Strategies

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Listen to my interview with Peter Liljedahl (transcript):
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This post was supposed to be just for math teachers. I was going to share an instructional approach that, as dramatic as this sounds, has taken the math world by storm. The methodology is called Thinking Classrooms, and now that I have gotten a closer look at it, I can see that it could work in just about any content area. Built on 14 key practices, it's a way of teaching that gets students up on their feet, collaborating and thinking through challenging problems on a daily basis.

When I first saw a video of this strategy in action, I was immediately captivated. Take a look:

The more I learn about the Thinking Classrooms method, the better it gets. Thousands of math teachers are already using this approach, and it's spreading to other subject areas as well.

Joining me to talk about this on the podcast is Peter Liljedahl, professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, the creator of the Thinking Classrooms method, and the author of the book, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning ( Amazon | Bookshop.org). In our interview, which you can listen to above, Liljedahl talked with me in depth about the Thinking Classroom. Some key points are summarized below.

How Thinking Classrooms Got Started

Liljedahl began to formulate his approach after spending hours observing in dozens of different math classrooms. What he saw was not surprising: classroom after classroom of students who were not engaged and not actively learning.

"By and large students spend most of their class time not thinking, at least not in ways we know they need to think in order to be successful in mathematics." Liljedahl explains. "If they're not thinking, they're not learning. And everywhere I go classrooms look more alike than they look different: Teaching and learning in math classrooms adheres to a set of normative structures that date back to the dawn of public education over 170 years ago. We're going to have to break through some of these normative structures because they are actually creating environments that are not conducive to thinking."

What followed was a 15-year process figuring out how to break down these institutionally normative structures that were, as Liljedahl puts it, "holding non-thinking in place." Breaking those norms down means putting in place other practices that have now become foundational to the Thinking Classrooms approach.

The Practices

A Thinking Classroom is built on 14 practices, many of which were developed by looking at what was already happening in typical classroom, doing the exact opposite, and seeing what happened. Some of the key practices are summarized below.

Thinking Tasks

Unlike in a more traditional classroom, where the lesson might start with direct instruction from the teacher, a typical day in a Thinking Classroom starts with the teacher assigning thinking tasks for students to work on in groups, and direct instruction is only given on an as-needed basis.

"In a traditional classroom," he explains, "we show the students how to do it, then we do one together, then they practice it on their own, the classic I do, we do, you do, which promotes - whether you want it or not - a form of behavior called mimicking. So these students are just going to mimic their way through. In a Thinking Classroom, in order to get students to think rather than mimic, we have to remove the I do."

When they are first introducing this approach, teachers are advised to make the thinking tasks non-curricular, fun challenges that will help develop a culture of thinking. Once students are used to the format, the tasks become curriculum-based, often the same kinds of problems you'd find in the resources you'd normally use, but Liljedahl points out that they are carefully sequenced, "very carefully constructed," he says, "whereby the tasks are getting incrementally more challenging and are being given to students as their abilities are incrementally developing."

Vertical, Non-permanent Surfaces

Probably the most distinctive feature of a Thinking Classroom is the use of vertical, non-permanent surfaces, where students do the tasks, standing up, in groups of three.

Why vertical? "When it goes vertical, everyone has the same orientation to the work," Liljedahl explains. "When it's vertical, they can see each other's work, which promotes knowledge mobility and gives greater access to more ideas. When it's vertical, I can see everything. I don't have to wait for that quiz next Friday to see if the students understood it. I can see right now, and then I can intervene right now. I can't do that if they're horizontal."

But there's one more benefit of vertical surfaces that Liljedahl learned from interviewing students, one reason he felt eclipsed all the others. "It turns out that when students are sitting, they feel anonymous. And the further they sit from the teacher, the more anonymous they feel. And when students feel anonymous, they disengage. What standing up did was took away their anonymity. It made students not feel invisible, and then they didn't disengage."

The other important feature of these surfaces is that they are non-permanent. Unlike paper, which can't be reused, an erasable surface like a whiteboard or chalkboard turns out to be more conducive to thinking tasks. Liljedahl and his colleagues found this out through experimentation.

"If we compared a group working on a whiteboard versus a group working on flip chart paper," he says, "the group working on the whiteboards, they'll start within 20 seconds. They'll start making notations on the board. They'll try anything and everything because they feel like they can just erase it if it's wrong. The students who are tasked with working on flip chart paper, they will not make a single notation for upwards of three minutes, because 'This is not erasable. What I put here has to be perfect.' So there's a lot of agonizing, and that hesitation leads to a lower form of thinking."

Visibly Random Groups

Students collaborate on tasks in randomly assigned groups of three, and that randomization has to be visible. Liljedahl explains why on the Building Thinking Classrooms website:

"Whether we grouped students strategically or we let students form their own groups, we found that 80% of students entered these groups with the mindset that, within this group, their job is not to think. However, when we frequently formed visibly random groups, within six weeks, 100% of students entered their groups with the mindset that they were not only going to think, but that they were going to contribute. In addition, the use of frequent and visibly random groupings was shown to break down social barriers within the room, increase knowledge mobility, reduce stress, and increase enthusiasm for mathematics."

Another important feature is that each group only gets one writing instrument; this forces members to collaborate, rather than work in parallel.

Consolidation Practices

Once students have worked through the assigned tasks at the boards, they transition into what Liljedahl calls consolidation, activities that reinforce each individual student's learning.

"It turns out that there's a difference between what we call collective knowing and doing and individual knowing and doing. Working collectively at the whiteboards and working individually are actually very different modalities; there needs to be some sort of a transfer."

The consolidation practices that facilitate that transfer are:

guided gallery walks, where the teacher points out key elements of student work on the vertical surfaces

note making, where students construct their own meaningful notes: "They take their learning from the day and find a way to represent that in such a way that they can in part have a record, but more importantly go through that process of reification, where they are taking these ideas that started very informal and unstructured, became more formal and structured through the consolidation and now become even more formal and structured through their note making activity."

check your understanding questions, a form of self-assessment students do on their own to determine how well they have grasped the material

How to Get Started

The book (linked above) is a great place for math teachers to start, but if you're not a math teacher, that shouldn't stop you. "These practices are being enacted in every curriculum now," Liljedahl says. "Language arts, social studies, science. There are slight variances to it, but fundamentally what changes is what constitutes a thinking task, which is Chapter 1 of the book, and what constitutes a sequence of thinking tasks, which is Chapter 9. Everything else more or less stays the same."

Interested teachers should also join any one of the online communities of teachers who are already running Thinking Classrooms of their own. The largest is the Building Thinking Classrooms Facebook group, but Liljedahl says there are many others.

"Try it," he says. "The book gives you plenty of resources and ways to enact it in a way that's almost guaranteed to have some early success so that you can see for yourself what this looks like. I always say that my book has stories and data in it, but those are my stories and my data. The real data, the real stories that are going to impact your practice, that are going to sustain your practice, are the story and the data that happen in your own classroom, right. Give it a try. See what happens."

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The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl

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In too many classrooms, students aren't really thinking. It's time to try something different.

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Every three years the OECD administers and publishes the Programme for International Student Assessment, better known as PISA, which evaluates 15 year-old students around the world to determine how well their education system has prepared them for life after compulsory schooling. This test is important because it allows the performance of educational systems to be examined and compared on a common measure across countries. Currently 70 countries participated in the latest PISA.

In this report, they use their data to answer an important question: How much should I direct student learning in my mathematics classes?

For years, the most common teaching strategy has been teacher directed with a small - but vocal - contingent calling for a more student-oriented teaching. Which one is better? Unfortunately, it is not a simple "either/or" proposition. It would have been so nice if the data simply said "do THIS and not THAT". Rather, it is a bit more nuanced.

In a nutshell, however, a key finding is that as the instruction becomes more teacher-directed the more student learning relies upon using memorization skills. Conversely, the more student-oriented the instruction, the less students rely upon memorization and are increasingly able to elaborate upon their thinking.

My math colleague Randy put it this way...

If you are still teaching "I do, we do, you do" you are successfully teaching mimicry in the math classroom, nothing more. We know better. We need to do better.#mtbos #elemmathchat

- Randy Swift (@RandySwift9) October 15, 2022

When to use direct instruction versus student-centered instruction?
The PISA data indicate that direct instruction is slightly more successful in teaching students to solve the easiest mathematics problems. Yet as the problems become more difficult, students with more exposure to direct instruction no longer have a better chance of success. Students exposed to greater amounts of student-oriented teaching are more likely to solve the difficult problems on PISA.

When the goal is for students to learn and practice a discrete skill, then "I Do, We Do, You Do" direct instruction is likely the most effective instructional strategy.

But what if the goal is for students to persevere through the intricacies of a PERFORMANCE TASK? What if the goal is for students to think creatively about a solution method?

Direct instruction is unlikely to teach these things. This is why we also need student-centered instruction. Or call it inquiry instruction. Or "You Do, We Do, I Do". Or Explore First...Formalize Later.

Whatever this type of instruction is called, it necessarily creates space for productive struggle (shown to have an Effect Size of 0.75) followed by group discussion (ES = 0.82). There is plenty of evidence showing the value of allowing students to grapple with the new math concept PRIOR to instruction.

Start here...
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/02/25/bigger-gains-for-students-who-dont-have-help-solving-problems-struggle-to-learn/
Key findings:

Allowing learners to struggle will actually help them learn better, according to research on "productive failure" conducted by Manu Kapur, a researcher at the Learning Sciences Lab at the National Institute of Education of Singapore.

Two groups of students: the first were scaffolded carefully by the teacher and successfully solved the problems. The second group collaborated with one another without any prompts from the teacher. The second group was unsuccessful in solving the problem. "And when the two groups were tested on what they'd learned, the second group "significantly outperformed" the first."

If you are interested in learning more about how to decide when to teach a student-centered, inquiry-focused lesson versus a direct instruction lesson please contact us!

Duane Habecker

dhabecker@mcoe.org

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Flipping the script: You Do, We Do, I Do

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Math Workshop Launch Resources for Middle Grades

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Connected Mindset Mathematics Lessons by Grade  Level

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

1. How do talk moves encourage students to make connections with each other?

2. Which talk moves do you use in your classroom?

3. Which could you add?

4. What can you learn from Ms. Simpson about encouraging students to change their minds?

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Fourth grade teacher Lynn Simpson uses a variety of talk moves to encourage participation and collaboration. Lynn explains how asking students to repeat each others' thinking encourages deeper understanding. By adding on, students build off of their peers' ideas. Lynn describes how her class devised their own "agree" signal to use during discussions.

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Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success-a simple idea that makes all the difference. Research shows that when students develop what she has called a ' growth mindset' then they believe that intelligence and 'smartness' can be learned and that the brain can grow from exercise. The implications of this mindset are profound -- students with a growth mindset work and learn more effectively, displaying a desire for challenge and resilience in the face of failure. On the other hand, those with a 'fixed mindset' believe that you are either smart or you are not. When students with a fixed mindset fail or make a mistake they believe that they are just not smart and give up. Such students frequently avoid challenge, preferring instead to complete easier work on which they know they will succeed.

Key findings include:

The plasticity of the brain: ability and intelligence grow with effort and practice.

The importance of students' mindsets for learning: when students believe that everybody's ability can grow, their achievement improves significantly.

The importance of teachers' mindsets for teaching: when teachers believe that everybody's ability can grow, and they give all students opportunities to achieve at high levels, students achieve at high levels.

The effects of ability grouping in all its different forms: these grouping practices communicate damaging fixed mindset beliefs to students.

Fixed mindset beliefs contribute to inequalities in education as they particularly harm minority students and girls; they also contribute to overall low achievement and participation.

Articles

Ability and Mathematics: the mindset revolution that is reshaping education - Jo Boaler

Recent scientific evidence demonstrates both the incredible potential of the brain to grow and change and the powerful impact of growth mindset messages upon students' attainment. This article reviews evidence for brain plasticity, the importance of mindset and the ways that mindset messages may be communicated through classroom and grouping practices.

Read the full article here.

New evidence that students' beliefs about their brains drive learning
Susana Claro and Susanna Loeb report on a new study that uses data from five school districts in California that measure growth mindset for students in 3rd to 8th grade to assess the extent that students with stronger growth mindset learn more in a given year than those without. It finds that traditionally underserved students - including students in poverty, English learners, Hispanics, and African-American students - are less likely to hold a growth mindset. Yet, for all groups, students with a growth mindset learn more over the course of year than otherwise similar students who do not have a growth mindset. While this study is just a first step in assessing the effects of mindset on a large population of students and the role of schools in building mindset, the findings provide initial evidence that it may be beneficial to monitor the levels of growth mindset in the population and convey to students that the brain is malleable.

Growth Mindset and the Common Core Math Standards
December 3, 2013, Edutopia

A brief article on growth mindset, and its relationship with the Standards for Math Practice, and their importance in helping students become successful in math.

In offering a variety of instructional strategies and activities, growth mindset teachers maximize opportunities for multiple interactions with mathematics. A classroom steeped in the SMPs allows students to actively discover, interpret, analyze, process, practice and communicate -- all of which have the potential to move information from working memory into long-term memory, ultimately expanding brainpower and mathematics intelligence.

Read more here.

Find out more...

Courses

How to Learn Math - for all ages
How to Learn Math is a free class for learners of all levels of mathematics. There are 6 sessions, the first three are approximately 10 minutes long and the last three approximately 20 mins long. It combines really important information on the brain and learning with new evidence on the best ways to approach and learn math effectively. Many people have had negative experiences with math, and end up disliking math or failing. This class will give learners of math the information they need to become powerful math learners, it will correct any misconceptions they have about what math is, and it will teach them about their own potential to succeed and the strategies needed to approach math effectively.

Growth Mindset for Math - For Teachers
A free course that introduces teachers to a growth mindset and provides them with practices to help promote it in their classroom.

Find out more: MindsetKit.Org is a free set of online lessons and practices designed to help you teach and foster adaptive learning mindsets.

Children's Books

A number of children's books can help spark a conversation about growth mindset.

Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
by JoAnn Deak Ph.D. and Sarah Ackerley

Teaches children that they have the ability to stretch and grow their own brains. It also delivers the crucial message that mistakes are an essential part of learning. The book introduces children to the anatomy and various functions of the brain in a fun and engaging way.

The Dot
by Peter H. Reynolds (Author, Illustrator)

This book is about not believing in not believing in your self, starting small and then moving on and then surprising yourself in what you can do. The book is dedicated to his 7th grade math teacher.
Available in Spanish.
Disponible en español - el punto

Stuck
by Oliver Jeffers (Author, Illustrator)

A funny book about about being stuck, trying different and creative things, and getting unstuck.
Available in Spanish.
Disponible en español - Atrapados

Video

Jo Boaler on the Good and Bad of Mathematics Education

On February 25, 2013, Professor Jo Boaler delivered a SCOPE Brown Bag lecture in which she presented evidence from research and practice that many students in the United States go down a damaging path in mathematics. According to Boaler, this path affects about half the population and leads to low achievement and poor self-esteem.

Watch the video here.

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Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success-a simple idea that makes all the difference. Research shows that when students develop what she has called a ' growth mindset' then they believe that intelligence and 'smartness' can be learned and that the brain can grow from exercise.

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Class norms are a set of statements of value or behavior that support active and equitable participation in the classroom. They set expectations for all members of the classroom community, adults and students. Class norms are stated in a positive tone, apply to all situations all the time, and are few in number.

Why do I use this structure?
Class norms help students, and give them opportunities, to be accountable to the community and to act on the prosocial values of responsibility, respect, fairness, caring, and helpfulness. They support equitable participation, engagement with the practices of doing math, and establishment of a positive classroom climate.

When do I use this structure?
Establish classroom norms at the beginning of the school year and continue to reinforce them every day.

​Here are some sample math class norms you can use to generate discussion about class norms with your students.

Errors are gifts that promote discussion.

Use multiple strategies and multiple representations.

Answers are important, but they are not the math.

Ask questions until ideas make sense.

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Teaching involves developing the whole child, not only as good mathematicians but as good people-friends, colleagues, innovators, and citizens. Problem-solving is not only a quantitative challenge but a human one. We can engage students in deeply understanding what resolving problems entails and what it feels like, which is satisfying for children and adults alike.

The Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice specify that students solve real-world and mathematical problems by working effectively with peers; formulating, communicating and critiquing arguments; and persevering through difficulty. As students internalize these mathematical practices, they engage interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, also known as social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies.

Here, you'll find an explicit unpacking of the connections among the mathematical practices and SEL competencies, as well as supports for integrating them in your classroom instruction. These resources were created by panels of experts in mathematics education and in social and emotional learning, along with teams of educators serving as co-developers.

Integrating Social and Emotional Learning and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: Making the Case lays out the rationale for considering the strong connections among the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice and key social and emotional learning competencies.

Integrating Social and Emotional Learning and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: Describing an Ideal Classroom provides a brief historical perspective on the culture of mathematics classrooms and describes the shift required by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice with regard to your classroom culture and collaboration with colleagues.

Practitioner Spotlight/ Appendix to "Describing an Ideal Classroom" Table 2: Provides commentary with video clips on teacher Cathy Humphreys's lesson that describes the ways in which her students demonstrate social and emotional learning competencies as they engage with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice.

A Tool for SEL Evaluation: A tool that can be used as an additional lens through which to evaluate materials in support of strong student learning. The purpose of the tool is to determine how well your mathematics instructional materials support students' understanding and application of widely accepted social and emotional learning competencies.

Using Social and Emotional Learning to Develop Mathematically Proficient Students: Instructional Guides: Each of these guides focuses on one of a series of problem solving activities developed by the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS) that call for students to engage in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice.

The instructional guides, which surface key social and emotional learning competencies needed for the mathematical task, are designed to support you as you monitor and encourage student engagement in competencies called for by the practices. Each instructional guide provides facilitation suggestions that promote students' social and emotional learning competencies and support students' engagement in the Standards for Mathematical Practice. (These MARS tasks can be found in the performance assessment tasks section of this site.)

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Presentation on Getting Started with Math Talks

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Slideshow that explains the basics of getting started with math warm-up routines. The last slide of the presentation includes many resources for getting started with math warm-ups.

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Welcome to the Math Salamanders' Math Puzzles printable resource pages.

Here you will find a range of different math puzzle worksheets, math riddles and challenges to help you learn to apply your math facts to solve a range of puzzles and problems.

There are links to a wide range of puzzles including: number fill-in puzzles, number search puzzles, magic square puzzles, money and time puzzles.

This page contains links to other Math webpages where you will find a range of activities and resources.

If you can't find what you are looking for, try searching the site using the Google search box at the top of each page.

Math Puzzles Printable Sheets

Looking for some interesting and fun worksheets to try?

Do you need some math puzzles or math riddles to solve?

Look no further! The pages you need are below!

Using puzzles is a great way to check understanding and challenge learning. The puzzles below will test children's learning in different sorts of context, developing problem solving and thinking skills along the way.

Here is our selection of math puzzles printable sheets from kindergarten to 5th grade.

Using puzzles is a much more fun way of exploring the world of math!

Number & Strategy Puzzles

1st Grade Math Puzzle Worksheets

Here you will find a range of math puzzles aimed at first grade level. Each puzzle sheet has been carefully designed to help children understand some of the basic math concepts at this level.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

Add and subtract with numbers to 12;

Develop problem solving skills and reasoning.

All the fun math worksheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks for first grade.

Second Grade Math Puzzle Worksheets

Here are our second grade math puzzles. Each sheet has been carefully designed to support children of a 2nd grade level understand some of the basic concepts at this level.

Using the sheets will help your child to:

Add and subtract with numbers up to 20;

Develop problem solving and reasoning skills.

All the math puzzles printable worksheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks.

3rd Grade Math Puzzle Worksheets

Here are a range of math puzzles for 3rd graders. These sheets have been designed to consolidate, extend and support 3rd grade children in their understanding of addition, subtraction and multiplication.

Using the sheets will help your child to:

Add and subtract to 100;

Multiply with numbers to 5x5;

Develop trial and improvement strategies;

Develop problem solving skills.

All the 3rd grade sheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks.

4th Grade Math Puzzle Sheets

Here is our set of 4th grade math puzzles. Each sheet has been carefully designed to support children of a 4th grade level understand some of the basic concepts, and also to extend and challenge their learning.

Each puzzle sheet comes complete with answers.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

learn and practice their addition facts, including adding negative numbers and decimals;

practice their subtraction facts;

practice and apply multiplication and division facts;

develop problem solving skills and reasoning.

Using the puzzles in this section will help your child develop their problem solving and reasoning skills.

5th Grade Math Puzzles

Here you will find our selection of free 5th grade printable math puzzles. Each sheet has been developed to support and extend learning at a 5th grade level.

Concepts covered include adding decimals, negative numbers, multiplication and division facts (including decimals).

Using these sheet will help your child to:

learn and practice their addition facts, including decimals;

practice their subtraction facts, including decimals;

practice and apply multiplication and division facts;

develop problem solving skills and reasoning.

All the math puzzles printable sheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks for 5th grade.

Fun Math Puzzles to solve

It's great when kids have fun and are learning math skills without really thinking about it. These number fill in puzzles are a great way to develop thinking skills and getting kids to check all the possibilities.

Magic Square Puzzles to solve

We have a range of magic square puzzles for kids to solve, suitable from 1st grade and upwards.

Most of the sheets involve finding the missing numbers to create a magic square.

Our magic square sheets include:

Addition and subtraction of integers;

Addition and subtraction of fractions;

Using negative numbers;

Using decimals.

Number Search Puzzles

Number Search Puzzles are a great way to get children looking for numbers and developing number recognition skills.

They are also a good resource for developing short term number memory skills, and can be a good way to take the fear out of large numbers.

We have a range of different number search puzzles - from easier puzzles to trickier ones to work out.

With the easier puzzles, the numbers only go horizontally (left to right) or vertically downwards.

The numbers get progressively larger on the trickier puzzles, and the grids get larger.

Place Value & Rounding Puzzles

The following puzzles involve using place value and rounding skills to find the correct answer from a choice of 6 or 8 possible solutions.

Place Value Puzzles

The following riddles involve using a series of clues to find the correct answer from a selection of 6 or 8 different numbers.

The riddles cover place value up to 10,000 as well as square numbers, palindromes, odd and even numbers and decimals.

Rounding Challenges to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

Here is our rounding challenges collection which will give your child an opportunity to apply their rounding learning.

The challenges can be tackled individually or with a partner.

Each challenge involves using rounding knowledge and properties of numbers to work out the correct answer.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

apply their knowledge of rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000;

develop their problem solving skills;

develop their understanding about place value and properties of numbers.

All the rounding challenges support elementary math benchmarks.

Rounding Decimals Challenges to the nearest whole, tenth or 2dp

Here is our rounding decimal challenges collection which will give your child an opportunity to apply their decimal rounding learning.

The challenges can be tackled individually or with a partner.

Each challenge involves using rounding knowledge and properties of numbers to work out the correct answer.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

apply their knowledge of rounding to the nearest whole, tenth, or 2dp;

develop their problem solving skills;

develop their understanding about place value and properties of numbers.

All the rounding challenges support elementary math benchmarks.

Money Riddles & Challenges

1st Grade Money Riddles

Using puzzles is a great way to get children to learn about money in a fun and interesting way, and apply their counting money knowledge.

Using these 1st Grade money riddles will help your child to develop their money skills and their problem solving skills at the same time.

There are a range of sheets suitable for a range of abilities within 1st grade.

2nd Grade Money Riddles

Using riddles is a great way to get children to learn about money in a fun and interesting way.

Using these money riddles will help your child to develop their money skills and their problem solving skills at the same time.

There are a range of sheets suitable for a range of abilities.

Using the link below will take you to the 2nd-grade-math-salamanders.com site.

2nd Grade Money Challenges

In our Money Challenge section you will find a lot of printable money challenges that you can use with your child.

Once children have mastered the basics of counting money amounts and know their coins, they are ready for a higher level of challenge.

The Money Challenges will help your child consolidate their money learning so far, and extend it further with some open-ended challenges.

Using these math puzzles printable sheets will help your child to:

apply their existing skills to solve problems;

develop their problem solving and thinking skills.

Using the link below will take you to the 2nd-grade-math-salamanders.com site.

3rd Grade Money Challenges

On this webpage, you will find our 3rd grade Money Challenges.

These math puzzles printable sheets involve solving money problems and are a great way for kids to develop their reasoning skills and practice their counting money at the same time.

Time Riddles

Looking for an extension activity for children who can already tell the time?

Maybe you want an interesting starter activity for your lesson to get the class thinking?

These math puzzles printable time sheets will help to get your child thinking about time and solving problems involving time.

They are good at developing an understanding of the language used in time.

Fraction Riddles

Riddles are a great way to get children to apply their knowledge of fractions.

These riddles are a good way to start off a maths lesson, or also to use as a way of checking your child's understanding about fractions.

All the riddles consist of 3 or 4 clues and a selection of 6 or 8 possible answers. Children have to read the clues and work out which is the correct answer.

The puzzles can also be used as a template for the children to write their own clues for a partner to guess.

Geometry Riddles

Here you will find a range of fun math riddles that will entertain and occupy your child.

Each riddle is a mathematical problem that will hopefully prove both stimulating and interesting. Using riddles is a really good way to explore mathematical ideas and concepts in a fun way!

There are riddle pages available for both numbers and geometry.

Using these riddles will help your child to:

develop their understanding of geometry;

develop their understanding of language of geometry;

solve problems and use their reasoning skills.

All the math puzzles printable worksheets in this section support elementary math benchmarks.

Seasonal Puzzles and Challenges

We have started to create quite a few seasonal worksheets for events like Christmas, Easter and Halloween.

The links below will take you to our seasonal puzzle pages.

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The Math Salamanders hope you enjoy using these free printable Math worksheets and all our other Math games and resources.

We welcome any comments about our site or worksheets on the Facebook comments box at the bottom of every page.

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Welcome to the Math Salamanders' Math Puzzles printable resource pages. Here you will find a range of different math puzzle worksheets, math riddles and challenges to help you learn to apply your math facts to solve a range of puzzles and problems. There are links to a wide range of puzzles including: number fill-in puzzles, number search puzzles, magic square puzzles, money and time puzzles.

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Welcome to the Math Salamanders' Math Puzzles printable resource pages.

Here you will find a range of different math puzzle worksheets, math riddles and challenges to help you learn to apply your math facts to solve a range of puzzles and problems.

There are links to a wide range of puzzles including: number fill-in puzzles, number search puzzles, magic square puzzles, money and time puzzles.

This page contains links to other Math webpages where you will find a range of activities and resources.

If you can't find what you are looking for, try searching the site using the Google search box at the top of each page.

Math Puzzles Printable Sheets

Looking for some interesting and fun worksheets to try?

Do you need some math puzzles or math riddles to solve?

Look no further! The pages you need are below!

Using puzzles is a great way to check understanding and challenge learning. The puzzles below will test children's learning in different sorts of context, developing problem solving and thinking skills along the way.

Here is our selection of math puzzles printable sheets from kindergarten to 5th grade.

Using puzzles is a much more fun way of exploring the world of math!

Number & Strategy Puzzles

1st Grade Math Puzzle Worksheets

Here you will find a range of math puzzles aimed at first grade level. Each puzzle sheet has been carefully designed to help children understand some of the basic math concepts at this level.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

Add and subtract with numbers to 12;

Develop problem solving skills and reasoning.

All the fun math worksheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks for first grade.

Second Grade Math Puzzle Worksheets

Here are our second grade math puzzles. Each sheet has been carefully designed to support children of a 2nd grade level understand some of the basic concepts at this level.

Using the sheets will help your child to:

Add and subtract with numbers up to 20;

Develop problem solving and reasoning skills.

All the math puzzles printable worksheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks.

3rd Grade Math Puzzle Worksheets

Here are a range of math puzzles for 3rd graders. These sheets have been designed to consolidate, extend and support 3rd grade children in their understanding of addition, subtraction and multiplication.

Using the sheets will help your child to:

Add and subtract to 100;

Multiply with numbers to 5x5;

Develop trial and improvement strategies;

Develop problem solving skills.

All the 3rd grade sheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks.

4th Grade Math Puzzle Sheets

Here is our set of 4th grade math puzzles. Each sheet has been carefully designed to support children of a 4th grade level understand some of the basic concepts, and also to extend and challenge their learning.

Each puzzle sheet comes complete with answers.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

learn and practice their addition facts, including adding negative numbers and decimals;

practice their subtraction facts;

practice and apply multiplication and division facts;

develop problem solving skills and reasoning.

Using the puzzles in this section will help your child develop their problem solving and reasoning skills.

5th Grade Math Puzzles

Here you will find our selection of free 5th grade printable math puzzles. Each sheet has been developed to support and extend learning at a 5th grade level.

Concepts covered include adding decimals, negative numbers, multiplication and division facts (including decimals).

Using these sheet will help your child to:

learn and practice their addition facts, including decimals;

practice their subtraction facts, including decimals;

practice and apply multiplication and division facts;

develop problem solving skills and reasoning.

All the math puzzles printable sheets in this section support Elementary math benchmarks for 5th grade.

Fun Math Puzzles to solve

It's great when kids have fun and are learning math skills without really thinking about it. These number fill in puzzles are a great way to develop thinking skills and getting kids to check all the possibilities.

Magic Square Puzzles to solve

We have a range of magic square puzzles for kids to solve, suitable from 1st grade and upwards.

Most of the sheets involve finding the missing numbers to create a magic square.

Our magic square sheets include:

Addition and subtraction of integers;

Addition and subtraction of fractions;

Using negative numbers;

Using decimals.

Number Search Puzzles

Number Search Puzzles are a great way to get children looking for numbers and developing number recognition skills.

They are also a good resource for developing short term number memory skills, and can be a good way to take the fear out of large numbers.

We have a range of different number search puzzles - from easier puzzles to trickier ones to work out.

With the easier puzzles, the numbers only go horizontally (left to right) or vertically downwards.

The numbers get progressively larger on the trickier puzzles, and the grids get larger.

Place Value & Rounding Puzzles

The following puzzles involve using place value and rounding skills to find the correct answer from a choice of 6 or 8 possible solutions.

Place Value Puzzles

The following riddles involve using a series of clues to find the correct answer from a selection of 6 or 8 different numbers.

The riddles cover place value up to 10,000 as well as square numbers, palindromes, odd and even numbers and decimals.

Rounding Challenges to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

Here is our rounding challenges collection which will give your child an opportunity to apply their rounding learning.

The challenges can be tackled individually or with a partner.

Each challenge involves using rounding knowledge and properties of numbers to work out the correct answer.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

apply their knowledge of rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000;

develop their problem solving skills;

develop their understanding about place value and properties of numbers.

All the rounding challenges support elementary math benchmarks.

Rounding Decimals Challenges to the nearest whole, tenth or 2dp

Here is our rounding decimal challenges collection which will give your child an opportunity to apply their decimal rounding learning.

The challenges can be tackled individually or with a partner.

Each challenge involves using rounding knowledge and properties of numbers to work out the correct answer.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

apply their knowledge of rounding to the nearest whole, tenth, or 2dp;

develop their problem solving skills;

develop their understanding about place value and properties of numbers.

All the rounding challenges support elementary math benchmarks.

Money Riddles & Challenges

1st Grade Money Riddles

Using puzzles is a great way to get children to learn about money in a fun and interesting way, and apply their counting money knowledge.

Using these 1st Grade money riddles will help your child to develop their money skills and their problem solving skills at the same time.

There are a range of sheets suitable for a range of abilities within 1st grade.

2nd Grade Money Riddles

Using riddles is a great way to get children to learn about money in a fun and interesting way.

Using these money riddles will help your child to develop their money skills and their problem solving skills at the same time.

There are a range of sheets suitable for a range of abilities.

Using the link below will take you to the 2nd-grade-math-salamanders.com site.

2nd Grade Money Challenges

In our Money Challenge section you will find a lot of printable money challenges that you can use with your child.

Once children have mastered the basics of counting money amounts and know their coins, they are ready for a higher level of challenge.

The Money Challenges will help your child consolidate their money learning so far, and extend it further with some open-ended challenges.

Using these math puzzles printable sheets will help your child to:

apply their existing skills to solve problems;

develop their problem solving and thinking skills.

Using the link below will take you to the 2nd-grade-math-salamanders.com site.

3rd Grade Money Challenges

On this webpage, you will find our 3rd grade Money Challenges.

These math puzzles printable sheets involve solving money problems and are a great way for kids to develop their reasoning skills and practice their counting money at the same time.

Time Riddles

Looking for an extension activity for children who can already tell the time?

Maybe you want an interesting starter activity for your lesson to get the class thinking?

These math puzzles printable time sheets will help to get your child thinking about time and solving problems involving time.

They are good at developing an understanding of the language used in time.

Fraction Riddles

Riddles are a great way to get children to apply their knowledge of fractions.

These riddles are a good way to start off a maths lesson, or also to use as a way of checking your child's understanding about fractions.

All the riddles consist of 3 or 4 clues and a selection of 6 or 8 possible answers. Children have to read the clues and work out which is the correct answer.

The puzzles can also be used as a template for the children to write their own clues for a partner to guess.

Geometry Riddles

Here you will find a range of fun math riddles that will entertain and occupy your child.

Each riddle is a mathematical problem that will hopefully prove both stimulating and interesting. Using riddles is a really good way to explore mathematical ideas and concepts in a fun way!

There are riddle pages available for both numbers and geometry.

Using these riddles will help your child to:

develop their understanding of geometry;

develop their understanding of language of geometry;

solve problems and use their reasoning skills.

All the math puzzles printable worksheets in this section support elementary math benchmarks.

Seasonal Puzzles and Challenges

We have started to create quite a few seasonal worksheets for events like Christmas, Easter and Halloween.

The links below will take you to our seasonal puzzle pages.

How to Print or Save these sheets

Need help with printing or saving?
Follow these 3 easy steps to get your worksheets printed out perfectly!

How to Print or Save these sheets

Need help with printing or saving?
Follow these 3 easy steps to get your worksheets printed out perfectly!

Math-Salamanders.com

The Math Salamanders hope you enjoy using these free printable Math worksheets and all our other Math games and resources.

We welcome any comments about our site or worksheets on the Facebook comments box at the bottom of every page.

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Welcome to the Math Salamanders' Math Puzzles printable resource pages. Here you will find a range of different math puzzle worksheets, math riddles and challenges to help you learn to apply your math facts to solve a range of puzzles and problems. There are links to a wide range of puzzles including: number fill-in puzzles, number search puzzles, magic square puzzles, money and time puzzles.

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Routines - Where THERE'S A WILLS, there's a way

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Students use the chat box to type their initial notices and wonders. Teachers can then purposefully select student responses and copy/paste them into the slide template. As the whole group discussion unfolds, students who prefer typing over mic can still have their voice heard.

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The Progression of Fractions (Meaning, Equivalence, & Comparison)

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Choose your own maths adventure with our interactive tools that allow you to build a custom playlist of inspirational activities!

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Setting Up Positive Norms in  Math Class

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Same But Different is a powerful routine for use in math classrooms. The images can be used for teaching a way of thinking: grayscale thinking, categorical thinking; helping students to build a network of ideas and an approach for learning and thinking about mathematics.

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Would You Rather Math – ASKING STUDENTS TO CHOOSE A PATH AND JUSTIFY IT WITH MATH

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Teachers, sign up for my mini-workshop to learn about how to implement Would You Rather Math into your classroom routines. We will explore some sentence frames, what happens when things don’t go as planned, how to use the prompts in a remote learning setting, and much more. See you there!

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Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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Welcome to Splat! You are only moments away from a VERY POWERFUL, highly interactive number sense strategy that can be used at any grade level!

This post includes 50 (fifty!) free, downloadable PowerPoint math lessons!

Watch the video, download some (or all) of the lessons, and experience what happens when you unleash this resource in your classroom!

I've been excited to click the Publish button on this post for several weeks! It's time!
UPDATE: The Fraction Splat! Series (with 20 more downloadable lessons) is now available!
After reading this blog post, take a look at THE 12 MOST POPULAR MATH STRATEGIES AND DOWNLOADS ON THIS BLOG.

Splat Through 10
How many dots are under the Splat?

Splat Through 20
How many dots are under the Splat?

Multiple Splats
(Note: Splats that are the same color must cover the same number.)
Splat 3.1 - multiple splats Splat 3.2 - multiple splats Splat 3.3 - multiple splats Splat 3.4 - multiple splats Splat 3.5 - multiple splats
Instant Multiple Splat
(Note: An additional feature of this level is the opportunity to ask, "What could the total be?")

Splat 4.1 - Instant Multiple Splats Splat 4.2 - Instant Multiple Splats Splat 4.3 - Instant Multiple Splats Splat 4.4 - Instant Multiple Splats Splat 4.5 - Instant Multiple Splats
2-Color Splat
(Splats of different colors must have different values.)

Splat 5.1 2-color Splat Splat 5.2 2-color Splat Splat 5.3 2-color Splat Splat 5.4 2-color Splat Splat 5.5 2-color Splat Splat 6.2 Instant 2-color Splat Splat 6.3 Instant 2-color Splat Splat 6.4 Instant 2-color Splat Splat 6.5 Instant 2-color Splat
Instant 2-Variable Splat
(Splats of different colors must have different values. Splats of the same color must have the same value.)
Splat 7.1 Instant 2-variable Splat Splat 7.2 Instant 2-variable Splat Splat 7.3 Instant 2-variable Splat Splat 7.4 Instant 2-variable Splat Splat 7.5 Instant 2-variable Splat
Number Splat
(Note: Only the numbers circled on the screen may be used.)
Splat 8.1 - Number Splat Splat 8.2 - Number Splat Splat 8.3 - Number Splat Splat 8.4 - Number Splat Splat 8.5 - Number Splat Splat 9.1 - Instant Number Splat Splat 9.2 - Instant Number Splat Splat 9.3 - Instant Number Splat Splat 9.4 - Instant Number Splat Splat 9.5 - Instant Number Splat
Instant Number Splat with 2 Variables
(Note: Only the numbers circled on the screen may be used, and Splats of different colors must have different values.)
Splat 10.1 - Instant 2-Variable Number Splat Splat 10.2 - Instant 2-Variable Number Splat Splat 10.3 - Instant 2-Variable Number Splat Splat 10.4 - Instant 2-Variable Number Splat Splat 10.5 - Instant 2-Variable Number Splat
NOTE: I wrote each of these lessons using PowerPoint, so I recommend playing them in PowerPoint. If you do not have PowerPoint, you may want to download the PowerPoint viewer so that you can play the lessons.

UPDATE: The Fraction Splat! Series (with 20 more downloadable lessons) is now available!
Other Posts and Resources Which May Be of Interest Tiled Area Questions The Maze Hundreds Chart
Introducing Cube Connectors
Provide Massive Space to Notice
Primary Tile Questions
3 Powerful Tile Strategies (and 40 new downloadable pages)
Please take a moment to subscribe to the blog so you'll be notified each time new resources are posted!

I would treasure hearing about your experiences using Splat! to promote number sense in your classroom!

All my best,
Steve

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Splat! - Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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Welcome to Splat! You are only moments away from a VERY POWERFUL, highly interactive number sense strategy that can be used at any grade level!

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L'idée de ce site a pris naissance grâce à une conversation avec Tracy Zager et Chris Hunter. De plus, d'autres personnes en dehors de la conversation initiale ont inspiré, d'une façon ou d'une autre, ce site.
The idea for this site was born out of a conversation with Tracy Zager and Chris Hunter. Furthermore, other people, in one way or another, have inspired the creation of this site. ​

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Custom Number Talk Images Créer vos propres images! Voici une ressource de Berkeley Everett . Offert en format PowerPoint ou Google Slides, vous n'avez qu'à modifier les diapositives afin de...

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Explore these patterns with your students and watch their natural tendencies to see patterns morph into powerful algebraic thinking and reasoning. It’s an ideal routine to foster mathematical practice #7 - look for and make use of structure.

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How do I get started? 1 USE THE FREE MATH LESSONS Estimation 180 Tasks 3-Act Tasks 2 SUBSCRIBE Email Newsletter Podcast

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Number sense math puzzles for K-6

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Number mysteries K-6. Upload the slideshow to Google Docs. Great for growing estimation skills and learning properties of numbers.

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51 Esti-Mysteries - Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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Data talks are short 5-10 minute classroom discussions to help students develop data literacy. This pedagogical strategy is similar in structure to a number talk, but instead of numbers students are shown a data visual and asked what interests them. In a data talk the teacher does not have to be an…

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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!

Which One Doesn't Belong?

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Daily Math Routines from Teach at the Speed of Learning

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Same and Different Images

Lots of images to support students in developing the habit of comparing and connecting representations. Thanks Brian Bushart for pulling them together!

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Great tasks you can do in 10-15 minutes every day...click the image and they're yours.