Here's a great puzzle to get your kids thinking about inverse operations. I used addition and multiplication, but you can incorporate so many more!!!
You can even throw in some negative numbers, fractions, algebraic expressions, or derivatives and integrals!!! Get creative and make it your own!!!
Four 4s: Possible Solutions
Notes:
This one was a fun one! I had to get a bit creative and incorporate a ".4" to make some of these numbers.
Of course, there is no one way to create a number! Maybe you were able to create some of these numbers differently! That's awesome if you did!!!
Problem Shaping: Solution
Classic algebra problem!!!
This one is a fun one to think through! Have your students work through one and see what different strategies they present!
Sequences
These are interesting sequences that can foster mathematical conversations in your classroom!
For example, the second sequence is a sequence of perfect squares, but what if students said that every term is increasing by an odd number. For instance:
1 + 3 = 4
4 + 5 = 9
9 + 7 = 16
16 + 9 = 25 and so on!
Hmmmm....?
Digit Sorting
This one was soooo good!!!
Give it at try!
Top Secret Multiplication
Break out of the norm and see if your students can work fowards and backwards using their multiplication skills.
Great conversation starter!
Who Am I?
Here's a great puzzle to get your students talking, thinking, and translating the English language into a mathematical one!