Valentine's Day Math Enrichment

Valentine’s Day Math Enrichment Activities (4-5)

Celebrate the holiday AND challenge your little geniuses at the same time! The math enrichment activities included in this packet are a great way to inspire and engage your students while enjoying the spirit of the season. Students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a deeper understanding of various Common Core math concepts. Each of the five printable activities offers an interesting, non-routine way to explore essential math concepts and skills.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED:

• Letter Love:This logic puzzle incorporates geometry concepts such as properties of 2-dimensional shapes, angles, parallel lines.

• Have a Heart: In this activity, students use their understanding of numbers and long division to complete an equation with 10 missing digits.

• Cupcakes Galore! Students use clues to determine the fractional part of each set. This challenging tasks involves simplifying and equivalent fractions.

• Sweethearts: This rigorous logic puzzle involves multi-digit multiplication, long division, rounding, place value, multiples, and standard measurement & conversion.

• Crack the Code: These Number Riddles incorporate place value, rounding multi-digit numbers, multiplication, division, fractions, standard measurement and conversion, factors, multiples, and properties of 2-D geometric shapes.

• Color and black & white versions of all five activities

• A detailed answer key

• Table of contents and related Common Core State Standards

*Be sure to check the preview to see all that’s included!

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Valentine’s Day Math Enrichment activities are great for:

• Math Centers and Stations

• Enrichment for high flyers

• A printable packet for early finishers

• Independent learning contracts

• Anchor Activities

• BUILD stations

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If you and your students enjoy these activities, you may also like the following differentiated enrichment activities:

• St. Patrick’s Day Math Enrichment Activities.

• THINK! Math Enrichment Activities (3-4).

• THINK! Math Enrichment Activities (4-5)

• Decimal Detectives

• Fraction Super Heroes! Differentiated Task Cards for 4-5

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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me; I’d love to hear from you!

Christy

© Christy Howe 2016. Materials are intended for personal use in one classroom only. For use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses.