Are Your Kids Ready for These Halloween Math Activities?

Are You Ready to Celebrate Halloween with Your Math Students This Year?

Are your students excited to celebrate Halloween this year?

If so, then you can channel their enthusiasm for this spooky time of year towards learning math with some brand new Halloween-themed two truths and one lie math activities for grades 3-8.

Go ahead and share these activities at any point during your math lessons this month to boost student engagement and bring some holiday festiveness into your classroom. You may also like our 13 Days of Spooky Math Puzzles and these fun hands-on Halloween math activities for all ages. Enjoy!

The following Halloween Math Activities for elementary and middle school students are samples from my best-selling PDF math workbooks: 101 Two Truths and One Lie! Math Activities for Grades 3-5 and 101 Two Truths and One Lie! Math Activities for Grades 6-8.

Two Truths and One Lie (2T1L) math activities revolve around your students being presented with three facts, images, or statements (only two of which are true). The objective is for students to identify which statement is false and justify why (verbally, in writing, or both).

2T1L activities are an excellent strategy for boosting student engagement, sparking mathematical thinking, and opening small-group or full-class discussions. They are great for warm-up and cool-down activities during the first or final minutes of class.

Click here to learn more about how you can use two truths and one lie math activities to engage your students.

Free Halloween Math Activities for Grades 3, 4, and 5

(keep reading to get puzzles for grades 6, 7, and 8)

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3rd Grade

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4th Grade

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5th Grade

Answer Key: 3rd Grade: 3 | 4th Grade: 2 | 5th Grade: 2

You can learn more about 2T1L activities and access more free samples here.

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Free Halloween Math Activities for Grades 6, 7, and 8

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6th Grade

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7th Grade

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8th Grade

Answer Key: 6th Grade: 2 | 7th Grade: 2 | 8th Grade: 1

You can learn more about 2T1L activities and access more free samples here.

Looking for more Two Truths and One Lie Math Activities?

You can now share 101 Daily Two Truths & One Lie! Math Activities for Grades 3, 4, & 5 OR Grades 6, 7, & 8 with your kids with our brand new PDF workbooks!

Here are a few more free samples that you can download and share with your kids (right-click to download each graphic and save it to your computer):

• 3rd Grade: Sample A | Sample B

• 4th Grade: Sample A | Sample B

• 5th Grade: Sample A | Sample B

Looking for more for grades 3, 4, & 5? Download your 101 ‘Two Truths and One Lie!’ Math Activities for Grades 3, 4, & 5 eBook!

• 6th Grade: Sample A | Sample B

• 7th Grade: Sample A | Sample B

• 8th Grade: Sample A | Sample B

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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.

Math Baseball: Free Learning Activities for Grades 1-8

Are Your Kids Ready for These Fun Math Baseball Puzzles and Activities?

Take advantage of your math students’ love for baseball by channelling their enthusiasm for the American past time into fun and engaging learning experiences.

In addition to having your students use their math skills to calculate popular baseball statistics, you can share the following baseball math activities in your upcoming lesson plans. Enjoy!

Math Baseball: Operations Puzzle

The following Baseball Math puzzle is a sample from our best-selling workbook 101 Daily Math Challenges for Engaging Students in Grades 3-8.

The puzzle requires students to use their math skills to find the value of each baseball symbol.

Click here to learn more about the workbook, which is currently available as a PDF download and as a hard copy on Amazon.

Answer Key: Batter=12, Fielder=12, Pitcher=1, Catcher=0. ?=24

Math Baseball: Which One Doesn’t Belong?

The following Which One Doesn’t Belong Baseball Activity is a sample from our best-selling workbook 101 Daily Which One Doesn’t Belong? Math Activities for Grades 1-8.

For this activity, students will observe the graphic below and reflect before applying their mathematical and reasoning skills to choose which of the option does not belong and why.

Click here to learn more about why Which One Doesn’t Belong? activities are an awesome strategy for engaging your students and sparking deep mathematical discussion at the start of any lesson.

Answer Key: WODB activities do not have a correct answer. The graphic can be interpreted in a variety of different ways and the goal is to ignite deep mathematical thinking and spark a discussion.

Math Baseball: Think-Notice-Wonder

The following Think-Notice-Wonder graphic is a writing prompt where students are required to complete the following statements based on their observations: I think…, I notice…, I wonder…

Click here to learn more about how you can use Think-Notice-Wonder activities to get your kids to take advantage of the benefits of writing about math.

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Celebrate National Astronomy Day in Your Classroom With These Free Math Puzzles

Are You Ready to Celebrate National Astronomy Day in Your Math Classroom with These Free Math Puzzles for Elementary School and Middle School Students?

National Astronomy Day is celebrated twice a year—once in the spring and again in the fall.

This fall, Astronomy Day will be celebrated on October 5th, which is the Saturday closest to the quarter moon.

And since astronomy and mathematics go hand-in-hand, celebrating Astronomy Day in your classroom is a great way to inspire your students and to have a discussion about the many awesome real-world connections in math, like becoming an astrophysicist!

The following astronomy-themed math puzzles for elementary and middle school students are samples from my best-selling PDF math workbook: The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.

The puzzles are tiered by difficulty using the following color system used in the book.

Pink Level (Grades 1-2) | Blue Level (Grades 3-4) | Green Level (Grades 5-6+)

Free Astronomy-Themed Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6+

(answer keys to follow)

Pink Level Puzzle ( for Grades 1-2)

Blue Level Puzzle (for Grades 3-4)

Green Level Puzzle (for Grades 5-6+)

Wait! Do You Want More Fun Math Puzzles to Share with Your Kids??

If you and your students like these pet-themed puzzles, then you should definitely get yourself a copy of the new book, which shares over 300 kid-friendly, differentiated, and printable math puzzles and activities!

It covers differentiated topics including:
-addition and subtraction
-multiplication and division
-order of operations
-inverse operations
-adding and subtracting fractions
-multiplication tables
-area models
-math writing activities

And the book includes a really cool Make Your Own Math Puzzle hands-on activity requiring only scissors and glue to complete. 

It also includes a complete answer key and several useful templates.

Take a Look Inside

You can access the entire Table of Contents by clicking here.

And you can click the links below to access some sample pages:

Pink Level Samples (for Grades 1 and 2): Sample A | Sample B

Blue Level Samples (for Grades 3 and 4): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C

Green Level Samples (for Grades 5 and 6+): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C

There are three puzzles per page and they include the familiar name/date/directions sections that are included in typical math worksheets, which makes them easier to print and share aswarm-up and exit-ticket activities, in lesson plans, and as extra credit and homework assignments.

Click here to get your copy of The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.

And check out the solutions to the pet-themed puzzles below:

Pink Level (Grades 1-2): Astronaut=9, Planet=2, Shuttle=4, ?=13

Blue Level (Grades 3-4): Astronaut=10, Planet=9, Shuttle=5, Moon=12, ?=120

Green Level (Grades 5-6+): Astronaut=5, Planet=5, Shuttle=26, Moon=23, ?=141

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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.

Celebrate National Taco Day with This Free Math Puzzle

Celebrate National Taco Day in Your Math Classroom with This Free Math Puzzle

Did you know that this Friday, October 4th, is National Taco Day!?

Most people (including myself) celebrate by eating tacos—lots and lots of tacos!

Why? Because everyone loves tacos.

In addition to eating tacos, you can celebrate National Taco Day in your classroom with a fun taco-themed multiplication table math puzzle.

Today's puzzle challenges students to use their math and reasoning skills to find the value of 7 different symbols contained within a multiplication table.

The puzzle works like a bingo-table where the icon in each box represents the product of its corresponding column and row.

Click here to download your puzzle as a PDF worksheet

*Keep reading to get the answer key.

*Keep reading to get the answer key.

This puzzle 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).

Taco Day Math Puzzle Answer Key:

Cheese=3, Avocado=0, Hard Taco=9, Pepper=1, Soft Taco=6, Tabasco=5, Onion=10

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Are Your Kids Ready for These Candy Shop Math Puzzles?

Candy Shop Math Puzzles for Grades 3-8

Are your students ready for a challenge?

The following free math puzzles and activities are samples from our best-selling PDF workbooks 101 Daily Math Challenges for Engaging Students in Grades 3-8 and 101 Daily ‘Which One Doesn’t Belong ?’ Math Activities. Enjoy!

Are you ready to channel your kids' enthusiasm for candy into learning math?

Working on math puzzles will give your students a unique opportunity to think creatively, critically, and deeply about math, which boosts the development of problem-solving skills and strategies.

So, go ahead and share these activities in your classroom and watch your student engagement skyrocket!

The activities are printable and make great warm-up and/or cool-down activities for students in grades 3-8.

How to Download: You can download the activitiess by right-clicking on the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping to your desktop.

Activity #1: Find the value of the '?'

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Gummy Bear=16

Lime Gummy=0

Lolipop=16

Ring Pop=4

? = 36

Hint: Since the gummy bear and lolipop are equal to each other, then are interchangeable.

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Are YOU looking for some super fun daily math puzzles for your students in grades 3-8? Our best-selling 101 Daily Math Challenges workbook is now available as a PDF download!

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Activity #2: Which One Doesn't Belong? 

Remember that WODB? activities are meant to spark mathematical thinking and discussion and do not have a single correct answer.

Want to learn more about how to use WOBD? math activities with your kids? click here

Tip: Have your kids justify their thinking in writing!

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Are YOU ready to start using WODB math activities with your kids? You can now get our best-selling PDF workbook with over 100 printable WODB activities!

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By Anthony Persico

Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.