Celebrate National Popcorn Day in Your Math Classroom with These Free Math Puzzles
Did you know that National Popcorn Day is celebrated on January 19th each year?
You can celebrate at home by snacking on some salty and buttery popcorn while watching your favorite movie.
And you can celebrate in your classroom by sharing some brand new Popcorn-themed math puzzles and activities for the elementary and middle school math levels with your students.
Today’s Popcorn Math Activities can be used to start your lessons (warm-up), as exit tickets (cool-downs), transitions, homework, and/or extra credit assignments.
1.) Popcorn Day Multiplication Puzzle
Multiplication Table puzzles work like a bingo-table where each symbol is the product of the corresponding row and column.
*Keep reading to get the answer key.
2.) Popcorn Day Area Model Puzzle
Area Model Puzzles require students to use their understanding of multiplication to figure out the value of each symbol in the area model, which represents the product of two values.
*Keep reading to get the answer key.
3.) Popcorn Day Think-Notice-Wonder Activity
Over the past few years, math teachers are incorporating more writing activities into their lesson plans—a trend that is being driven by the use of highly engaging Think-Notice-Wonder writing prompts that spark deep mathematical discussion and are highly effective as warm-up or cool-down activities.
Click here to learn more about how to use Think-Notice-Wonder activities with your students!
Are You Looking for More Free Math Puzzles for Grades 1-8?
Each of today’s Popcorn Math Activities is a sample from my best-selling workbook 101 Math Challenges for Engaging Your Students in Grades 3-8.
The book is available as a PDF download and you can also get a hard copy on Amazon (Free Amazon Prime Shipping Included; pages are in black-and-white).
And here are the answers to today's activities:
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