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Math Enrichment | Early Finishers 3rd Grade | Gifted and Talented Brain Teasers

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This resource is challenging for my students and makes them think. Great extension in the classroom for early finishers!
I use these resources to enrich my second/third graders who are ready for a bit more and they are eating it up! Most of these students are TAG.
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Did you like the original? There's more! 40 more PRINT & GO + GOOGLE SLIDES math enrichment problems to engage and challenge your advanced 2nd and 3rd grade students. These math challenge and brain teaser activities can be used as math centers, early finishers, homework worksheets, number talks, problem of the day/week, small group work, or whole class problem solving. Fun for kids and NO PREP for you!

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With answer keys and writing pages for students to explain their mathematical thinking included, these math worksheets are an easy way to keep your advanced mathematicians engaged with meaningful math extensions.

This Math Challenge and Brainteaser Pack includes 40 NO PREP math worksheets + virtual math activities and answer keys you can use for math centers, math homework, early finishers, small groups, number talks, math enrichment, math extensions or whole class problem solving.

Recommended as a challenge for 2nd and 3rd grade students.

Included in this pack:

20 Math Challenges

  • Amusement Park (Adding one and two-digit numbers, multiplying two digit by one digit numbers)
  • Field Trip (Multiplying two digit by one digit numbers, adding three-digit numbers)
  • 25 Block Staircase (Adding one and two-digit numbers, looking for patterns, organizing addition)
  • Sum of 250 (Guess & check, addition, consecutive numbers)
  • Owl Creek Elementary (Defining more/less, adding and subtracting two and three-digit numbers)
  • Pizza Shares (Fractions, dividing a whole into equal parts, mixed numbers, halves, thirds, fourths)
  • Birthday Cookies (Fractions, finding a whole when given a fractional part, mixed number addition)
  • Mileage (Repeated addition/multiplication, addition with decimals)
  • Birthday Cupcakes (Fractions, mixed numbers, dividing a whole into equal parts)
  • Hopping Bunnies (Multiplication one and two-digit, 2 step problem)
  • The Louvre (Multiplication with large numbers, time in days/hours/minutes/seconds)
  • Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Organizing data, finding all possibilities, combinations)
  • Roll the Dice (Organizing data, finding all possibilities, combinations, writing a ratio/fraction)
  • Sack Lunch (Organizing data, finding all possibilities, combinations)
  • Crayon Combinations (Organizing data, finding all possibilities, combinations)
  • Hexominoes (Logical thinking, guess and check, finding all possibilities, congruence)
  • Perimeter of 24 (Logical thinking, addition, perimeter, guess and check)
  • Equal Art #1 (Logical thinking, eliminating possibilities, addition)
  • Equal Art #2 (Logical thinking, eliminating possibilities, addition)
  • Seating Chart (Division, equal parts of a whole)

All math challenges come with a lined page for written responses focused on strategies students used to solve the problem

20 Brainteasers

  • Wonka Treats #1 (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
  • Wonka Treats #2 (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
  • Animal Farm #1 (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
  • Animal Farm #2 (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
  • Parking Lot #1 (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
  • Parking Lot #2 (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
  • Alphabet Soup #1 (Logical thinking, guess and check, medium)
  • Alphabet Soup #2 (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
  • Alphabet Soup #3 (Logical thinking, guess and check, very difficult)
  • Target Number 10 (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • Target Number 11 (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • Target Number 12 (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • Target Number 13 (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • The Legs in the Barn (Guess and check, addition, finding all possibilities)
  • NBA Math #1 (Addition, multiplication, missing addends, easier)
  • NBA Math #2 (Addition, multiplication, missing addends, more advanced)
  • Haunted Lane (Logical thinking, eliminating possibilities)
  • First Day of School (Logical thinking, eliminating possibilities)
  • Library Line (Logical thinking, eliminating possibilities, subtracting money, making change)
  • Chickadees (Logical thinking, eliminating possibilities)

Also includes

  • Student resource page with common conversions and extra info students might need to help solve these problems.
  • Link to an interactive Google Slides version
  • Google Slides FAQ and tutorial videos
  • Answer keys for every problem

Check out the preview to see all challenges, brainteasers, and answer keys.

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Katie

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).
Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.
Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

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