3rd Grade Critical Math Thinking Puzzles - Holiday Critical Thinking Activities
Oink4PIGTALES
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Grade Levels
2nd - 4th, Homeschool
Subjects
Standards
CCSSMP1
CCSSMP2
CCSSMP3
CCSSMP4
CCSSMP5
Formats Included
- Zip
- Easel Activity
Pages
300 PDFs, 20 Digital Boom Cards, 250 Easel Tasks
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Easel Activities Included
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Description
Build critical thinking skills with these holiday and seasonal math critical thinking puzzle activities for 2nd and 3rd grade students. These critical thinking puzzles help students develop higher-level problem-solving skills, practice algebraic reasoning, and critical thinking skills. Students will use critical thinking skills to solve over 250 HANDS-ON. INTERACTIVE, DIGITAL, and PRINTABLE Math Logic Puzzles and won't even realize how much they're learning!
You will guide your students to discover how to think analytically and outside the box by exploring on their own how-to problem solve! Students will love using these math puzzle task card activities for:
- morning math enrichment activities
- math center activities
- early finishers work
- extra credit
- game days
Benefits of Using Critical Thinking Activities in the Classroom:
- builds higher level thinking skills
- students learn to think outside the box
- interactive, fun, and hands-on
- develops reasoning skills
- students learn how to think analytically
- practice being challenged but not frustrated
- practice using calculators (one set)
- make great yearlong math enrichment activities students LOVE
YEARLONG Critical Math Thinking Puzzles BUNDLE Includes
- 13 Resources for Seasonal and Daily Critical Thinking Activities
- 250 DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Logic Puzzles
- Differentiated Activities
- Answer Sheets
- Graphic Organizers
- and MORE
This Critical Thinking Puzzles Math Enrichment Activities Includes the following 13 Logic Puzzles Sets:
Place Value Digital Boom Card Riddles Set Includes:
- Easel DIGITAL Place Value Math Riddles Version
- A link to BOOM Learning℠ to access the 20 Digital Place Value Math Riddles from the BOOM Learning website
- Teacher Notes on how to use BOOM Cards™ in your classroom
- Teacher Instructions for using and setting up on Google Drive
Valentine's Day Brain Teasers Set Includes:
- Ten Colored Math Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers
- Ten Black & White Math Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers
- Color Valentine Manipulatives (5 per page)
- Black & White Valentine Manipulatives (5 per page)
- Color Center Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Black & White Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Teacher Set Up
- Teacher Extension Ideas
- Student Answer Sheets for 10 Tasks (2 per page)
- Student Blank Black & White Task Cards for Student to Create Valentine Tasks
Pig Theme Math Activities: Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles Includes:
- 12 Pig Theme Logic Puzzle Tasks
- Colored Pig Answer Keys
- Black and White Color Word Answer Keys
- Task Center Title Page Cover
- Student Instruction Sheet
- Student Graphs Can/Have/Are Sheet
- Teacher CAN/HAVE/ARE Instruction Sheet
- Tally Results Worksheet
- Vertical Graphing Worksheet
- Student Answer Recording Sheets
- Color and Black and White 8.5 x 11 teacher size pigs
- Create your own Logic Puzzle Pages for writing new logic puzzles and integrating ELA into your lesson
Dinosaurs Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles Activities Packet
- 12 Logic Tasks
- Answer Keys
- Title Page Cover
- Student Instruction Sheet
- Graphs Can/Have/Are Sheet
- Tally Results Sheet
- Vertical Graphing Sheet
- Student Answer Sheets
- Teacher Size Dinosaurs for Modeling
- Create your own Logic Puzzle Sheets for writing new logic puzzles and integrating ELA into your lesson
Halloween Brain Teasers Includes:
- Ten Math Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers
- Color Halloween Manipulatives (6 per page)
- Black & White Halloween Manipulatives (6 per page)
- Color Center Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Black & White Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Student Answer Sheets for 10 Tasks (2 per page)
- Student Blank Color Tasks for Creating Halloween Tasks
- Student Blank Black & White Tasks for Creating Halloween Tasks
- Teacher Set Up
- Extension Ideas
Thanksgiving Brain Teasers Includes:
- Ten Color Math Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers
- Ten Black & White Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers
- Color Thanksgiving Manipulatives (5 per page)
- Black & White Thanksgiving Manipulatives (5 per page)
- Color Center Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Black & White Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Student Answer Sheets for 10 Tasks (2 per page)
- Student Blank Color Tasks for Creating Thanksgiving Tasks
- Student Blank Black & White Tasks for Creating Thanksgiving Tasks
- Teacher Set Up
- Extension Ideas
Christmas Brain Teasers Includes:
- Ten Math Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers
- Color Halloween Manipulatives (6 per page)
- Black & White Christmas Manipulatives (6 per page)
- Color Center Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Black & White Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Student Answer Sheets for 10 Tasks (2 per page)
- Student Blank Color Tasks for Creating Christmas Tasks
- Student Blank Black & White Tasks for Creating Christmas Tasks
- Teacher Set Up
- Extension Ideas
Easter and Spring Theme Brain Teasers Includes:
- Ten Colored Easter Logic Tasks
- Ten Spring Black and White Logic Tasks
- Teacher Set Up
- Two Sizes of Colored Easter Egg Manipulatives
- Two Sizes of Spring Manipulatives
- Teacher Extension Instructions
- Student Blank Template Task Cards (2 per page)
- Student Spotted Egg Manipulatives
- Center Covers
- Student Answer Sheet for 10 Tasks
Calculator Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers l Problem Solving Activities
- 24 total tasks cards in ALL
- 8 blue tasks require either adding or subtracting one digit numbers
- 8 yellow tasks require students to use one digit numbers to add, subtract, or multiply with odd or even numbers
- 8 red tasks require all four basic operations with one and two digit numbers
- student mission recording worksheet
- teacher set up
- student instructions
- blank fill in the blank tasks with numbers to create more tasks
Race Car Theme Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles Includes:
- Teacher Set Up
- Race Car Manipulatives
- Ten Math Logic Tasks and Brain Teasers
- Teacher Extension Instructions
- Student Blank Mats
- Student Spotted Blank Race Car Manipulatives
- Center Covers
- Student Answer Sheet for 10 Tasks
- Student Answer Sheet for Student Created Tasks
The Great Animal Race Logic Puzzles Includes:
- 20 Color and Black and White Amazing Animal Race tasks cards
- Printable animals for hands problem solving manipulatives
- Student tasks instruction
- Set up and instructions for the teacher
- Color and Black & White Manipulatives
- Color and Black & White Center Cover
- Answer Sheet (2 per page)
- Blank Templates to Create Brain Teasers
St. Patrick's Day Brain Teasers Include:
- 10 Colored Saint Patrick's Day Puzzles
- 10 Black & White Saint Patrick's Day Puzzles
- Large Color Saint Patrick's Day Manipulatives (1 set per page)
- Small Color Saint Patrick's Day Manipulatives (2 sets per page)
- Large Black & White Halloween Manipulatives (1 set per page)
- Small Black & White Halloween Manipulatives (2 sets per page)
- Color Center Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Black & White Cover Pages (2 per page)
- Student Answer Sheets for 10 Tasks (2 per page)
- Student Blank Color Tasks for Creating Their Own Tasks
- Teacher Set Up
- Extension Ideas
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Total Pages
300 PDFs, 20 Digital Boom Cards, 250 Easel Tasks
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Lifelong tool
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Standards
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CCSSMP1
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.
CCSSMP2
Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
CCSSMP3
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and-if there is a flaw in an argument-explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.
CCSSMP4
Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.
CCSSMP5
Use appropriate tools strategically. Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software. Proficient students are sufficiently familiar with tools appropriate for their grade or course to make sound decisions about when each of these tools might be helpful, recognizing both the insight to be gained and their limitations. For example, mathematically proficient high school students analyze graphs of functions and solutions generated using a graphing calculator. They detect possible errors by strategically using estimation and other mathematical knowledge. When making mathematical models, they know that technology can enable them to visualize the results of varying assumptions, explore consequences, and compare predictions with data. Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve problems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.
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