Christmas Math Logic Puzzles - 2nd and 3rd Grade December Math Enrichment
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Grade Levels
2nd - 3rd, Homeschool
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSMP1
CCSSMP2
CCSSMP3
CCSSMP4
CCSSMP5
Formats Included
- PDF
- Easel Activity
Pages
33 pages
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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 willPrice $49.99Original Price $68.00Save $18.01
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Looking for simple and easy to use December Christmas Math Enrichment Word Problems activities to teach your students how to think analytically and problem solve? These winter Christmas holiday math enrichment logic puzzles lets students explore and problem solve using hands-on DIGITAL and PRINTABLE math center activities to practice solving word problems. These Christmas math enrichment activities are a fun way to help students with critical thinking and problem solving skills in December.
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 Christmas December theme math puzzle task card activities for:
- morning math enrichment activities
- math center activities
- early finishers work
- extra credit
- game days
- Christmas party activities
- December centers
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Christmas Logic Puzzles Math Enrichment Includes:
- 20 DIGITAL Tasks
- 10 PRINTABLE Color Math Logic Puzzles
- 10 PRINTABLE Black and White Logic Puzzles
- Large Color Christmas Manipulatives (1 per page)
- Large Black and White Christmas Manipulatives (1 per page)
- Small Black and White Christmas Manipulatives (2 per page)
- Small Color Christmas Manipulatives (2 per page)
- Center Covers
- Student Answer Sheets (2 per page)
- Blank Templates for Creating Puzzles (2 per page)
- Teacher Set Up
- Extension Ideas
Students will love using these math logic puzzle task card activities for:
- morning math enrichment activities
- math center activities
- early finishers work
- extra credit
- game days
- Christmas party activities
- December centers
Benefits of Using Math Logic Puzzles 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 December math enrichment activities students LOVE
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Total Pages
33 pages
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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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