Animal Themed Math Challenges & Brainteasers
$7.75
Use these PRINT & GO and virtual animal themed math activities to challenge your high flying 2nd and 3rd grade students all year long.
These animal themed math problems are perfect for integrating math with life science, to use in an animal themed classroom, or to challenge your advanced students with a love for all things animals.
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Description
The Animal Math Challenge & Brainteaser pack includes 26 NO PREP math printables + virtual math activities you can use for second and third grade math centers, homework worksheets, fast finishers, number talks, seasonal activities, math enrichment contracts, small groups, or whole class problem solving.
Animals facts & themes include: frogs, whales, worms, seahorses, crabs, ostriches, elephants, alligators, snails, chickens, narwhals, penguins, octopuses, safari, zoos, barns, wild animals, forest animals, and ocean animals.
Recommended as a challenge for grades 2-3
Included in this pack:
13 Math Challenges
- Flyfest (Adding 1 and 2-digit numbers within 100, guess and check)
- Whale Whistles (Place value with 3-digits, adding multiple 1-digit numbers to 20, defining even, guess and check)
- Bookworm (Place value with 4-digits, adding multiple 1-digit numbers to 20, guess and check)
- Legs & Tails (Repeated addition/multiplication, guess and check)
- Ostrich Eggs (Mixed operations, defining a dozen, converting ounces to pounds)
- Parched Pachyderms (Capacity conversions, repeated addition/multiplication with 2-digit numbers)
- Going on Safari (Finding all possible combinations, organizing work)
- Feeding the Animals (Adding and subtracting money to $5.00, guess and check)
- Alligator Line Up (Defining one mile, converting feet to miles)
- Scrambled Eggs (Adding multiple 1 and 2-digit numbers, guess and check)
- Old MacDonald had Two Barns (Mixed operations with 1 and 2-digit numbers, dividing into equal groups)
- A Snail’s Pace (Converting days to hours, converting yards to feet, repeated addition/multiplication)
- Grain Stock Up (Converting ounces to pounds, repeated addition/multiplication)
All math challenges come with a lined page for written responses focused on strategies students used to solve the problem
13 Brainteasers
- Name that Narwhal (Logical thinking, guess and check)
- Animal Enclosures (Logical thinking, polygons, guess and check)
- Sea Legs (Adding 1 and 2-digit numbers to 50, finding all possible combinations)
- Barn Stalls (Logical thinking, guess and check, adding 1-digit numbers)
- Zoo Map #1 (Perimeter and area with models given, easier)
- Zoo Map #2 (Perimeter and area with length and width dimensions, more difficult)
- Animal Equations #1 (Addition and subtraction within 20, balancing equations)
- Animal Equations #2 (Addition and subtraction within 100, balancing equations)
- FARM Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
- WILD Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
- FOREST Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
- OCEANS Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
- CAT & MOUSE Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, most difficult)
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
Teacher Testimonials
“Loved this!! I used these brainteasers to challenge my high-flyers in math as a warm-up and they truly loved them!” -Third Grade Shenanigans
“Kids were engaged because they love anything having to do with animals. Interesting facts. Good variety of reasoning activities.” -Mary C.
“These challenges are really great for helping my children to solve problems independently.” -Madison B.
“Great for extension activity” -Traci C.
Download Details
Type of File: Secured PDF digital download
Total Pages: 71 pages
Answer Keys: Included for every problem
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Jolie H. –
Great resource for 3rd grade ELA. My students enjoyed this.
Michelle L. –
This resource is absolutely perfect! I wanted something for my gifted students to complete as early finisher activities, and this resource provides anything you could possibly want or need. Thank you for this wonderful time saver!
Karen S. –
This resource is fun for my third graders, they love brain teasers.
Stephanie Tallent –
This was a great resource for my early finishers! My students really enjoyed this and it kept them challenged.
Becky Schulte –
My students were super excited when I would pass out worksheets from this series. I used it with my high flying 2nd graders. I like how they are open ended with no specific way to solve. This enabled my students who knew multiplication to use or others to use repeated addition.
Becky Schulte –
My students love these!
My students were super excited when I would pass out worksheets from this series. I used it with my high flying 2nd graders. I like how they are open ended with no specific way to solve. This enabled my students who knew multiplication to use or others to use repeated addition.
Stephanie Tallent –
Fun activities for early finishers
This was a great resource for my early finishers! My students really enjoyed this and it kept them challenged.
Karen S. –
Fun Resource
This resource is fun for my third graders, they love brain teasers.
Michelle L. –
This was perfect for my gifted students
This resource is absolutely perfect! I wanted something for my gifted students to complete as early finisher activities, and this resource provides anything you could possibly want or need. Thank you for this wonderful time saver!
Jolie H. –
Thank you!
Great resource for 3rd grade ELA. My students enjoyed this.
Karsyn T. –
I love this resource/ everything you make! I use it every single year, this was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
Dawn R. –
I am a third-grade math teacher for an online school. I used this resource in a small group with my gifted students that need a little bit more than I can provide while in class with the whole group. This was great to challenge them and allow them to have some deeper math discussions.
Lynn C. –
Some really great ideas for fast finishers! Very creative and the kids enjoyed these!
Ashley R. –
I really liked the brain puzzles in this resource. I thought that some of them were too challenging for my second GT kiddos but my third grade group really enjoyed them.
Xiaowen Jensen –
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.
Miss Teaching Bee –
I love this! It is VERY challenging for some of my brightest second graders. A great resource for them as they can’t rush through it and it makes them slow down and think.
High 5s and Hugs –
I’m using this to enrich my second graders that are ready for a bit more and they are eating it up! A couple challenges have been REALLY challenging while others are a not quite as difficult. I like that it is forcing them to slow down and think!
Katie Flessner –
These are very engaging and a great way to challenge my second graders. 🙂
Kathryn B. –
Excellent Resource!
Anne F. –
These activities certainly make the children think. The tasks are challenging and require students to use multiple steps to solve the questions. I love that students are asked to write /explain how they solved the problems.
Calculate with Clark –
Love it.
Suzanne H. –
Great with my Animal Theme Day.
Emma Flowers-Lee –
wonderful resource for distance learning
Kathryn T. –
This provided a good challenge for my early finishers in math.
Nina M. –
My students love anything to do with animals so I knew this would be a hit. Super helpful with those kiddos that want an extra challenge.
Donna A. –
Great activity
Drew H. –
My students loved being challenged with these!
Kaycee C. –
My advanced level learners love this resource!
Cassandra P. –
A great challenge for my high students
Jennifer Cresta –
Love these as a fast finisher activity
Sandra J. –
Great resource!
Miranda P. –
Thought-provoking questions!
The Classroom Under the Stairs –
These are fun and challenging. They are great to have on hand for early finishers or just students who need a little bit of an extra stretch of their brain.
Hoot’s Hollow –
This was EXACTLY what I needed to challenge my students! THANK YOU! 🙂
Miss Stephanie’s Classroom –
This is a great product!!! Thank you so much!
Alexa Niro –
Awesome job! Love these for small group!
Terri G. –
This was exactly what I needed to make my higher achieving third graders *think*. They are so motivated to complete these. I love that they have to explain their thinking in 3 sentences. I am really getting to know how their young minds are processing.
Mindy R. –
Thanks!
karen sugrue –
Our kids loved these!
Traci C. –
Great for extension activity
Shenanigans in 1st Grade –
Loved this!! I used these brainteasers to challenge my high-flyers in math as a warm-up and they truly loved them!
mary C. –
Kids were engaged because they love anything having to do with animals. Interesting facts. Good variety of reasoning activities.
Madison Backus –
These challenges are really great for helping my children to solve problems independently.