Math teachers and parents are put to the test during the holiday season—a time when kids are anxious, easily distracted, and often struggling to stay on task.
Rather than work against your students’ anticipation and excitement, you can channel their enthusiasm for the holidays into meaningful math learning experiences by including some fun holiday-themed activities into your upcoming lesson plans.
Whether you plan on celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the winter season as a whole at home or in your classroom, you can share any of our holiday-themed math puzzles with your students this holiday season.
Each puzzle challenges students to use their math skills to find the values different holiday-themed symbols and icons. The puzzles can be downloaded as printable pdf worksheets that are easy to share and are suitable for students in grades 3-8.
All of the puzzles below are samples from the holiday puzzle calendars available on the Mashup Math membership website.
Enjoy!
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Download Instructions: You can download any of the challenges by right-clicking the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping each image to your desktop.
Day One of Twelve ☃️
▶ Math Skill: Elementary Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 3-6
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Two of Twelve 🦌
▶ Math Skill: Elementary Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 3-6
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Three of Twelve 🌲
▶ Math Skill: Elementary Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 3-6
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
Holiday Puzzle Preview
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Day Four of Twelve 🍪
▶ Math Skill: Intermediate Order of Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Five of Twelve 🥞
▶ Math Skill: Intermediate Order of Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Six of Twelve 🏂
▶ Math Skill: Intermediate Order of Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Seven of Twelve ❄️
▶ Math Skill: Intermediate Order of Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
Holiday Puzzle Preview
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Day Eight of Twelve 🧤
▶ Math Skill: Intermediate Order of Operations
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Nine of Twelve ☕
▶ Math Skill: Multi-Step Problem Solving
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Ten of Twelve 🐧
▶ Math Skill: Multi-Step Problem Solving
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Eleven of Twelve 🦊
▶ Math Skill: Intermediate Multiplication
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 4-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
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Day Twelve of Twelve ⛄
▶ Math Skill: Advanced Multiplication
▶ Suggested Grade Levels: 5-8
▶ PDF Worksheet: Click here to download
▶ Answer Key: Access all of our holiday-themed math puzzles and answer keys on our membership website.
