Are Your Kids Ready to Celebrate National Comic Book Day?
Did you know that September 25th is Comic Book Day!?
This fun holiday celebrates comic books and comic characters from all around the world!
You can celebrate at home by reading some of your favorite comic books and comic strips including Spider-Man and Calvin and Hobbes!
And you can celebrate in your classroom by sharing some super fun comic book character-themed math puzzles with their students in grades K-8!
Whether you’re teaching your kids at home, remotely, or in the classroom, you don’t want to miss this opportunity to celebrate ice cream day in your math classroom.
The following activities are best used for warm-ups (anticipatory sets), cooldowns and exit tickets, and transitions. They are especially good for helping your students develop problem-solving skills, mathematical reasoning, and applying the order of operations.
I like to share fun math puzzles like today’s at least once per week to keep my lessons fresh and exciting, and my students love them!
Today’s Comic Book Day Math Puzzles for grades K-8 are sample puzzles from the best-selling workbooks: The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6 and 101 Daily Math Challenges for Students in Grades 3-8.
The activities are tiered by difficulty using the following system:
(answer keys to follow)
Level 1 Puzzle (for Grades K-2)
Extra Resources: Which One Doesn't Belong? Free Math Activities for Grades 1-8
Level 2 Puzzle (for Grades 3-5)
Free Math Resources: Free Math Coloring Worksheets for 3rd and 4th Grade
Level 3 Puzzle (for Grades 6-8+)
And here are the answers to the Ice Cream Day Math Puzzles:
Level 1: Hulk=7, Wonder Woman=16, Spiderman=23, ?=46
Level 2: Hulk=8, Wonder Woman=9, Spider-Man=7, Iron Man=7, ?=47
Level 3: Hulk=77, Wonder Woman=52, Spider-Man=4, Iron Man=19, ?=1
Sharing fun math puzzles with your students is just one effective strategy for improving student engagement. Subscribe to our mailing list here to get more free daily resources, lesson plans, ideas, and insights for K-12 math teachers in your inbox every week.
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By Anthony Persico
Anthony is the lead educator and founder of Mashup Math. He lives in Denver, Colorado and is also a YouTube for Education partner. Follow him on Twitter at @mashupmath.
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