May Math Challenges & Brainteasers

$7.50

Use these PRINT & GO + VIRTUAL math activities with end of the school year and seasonal themes to challenge your high flying 2nd and 3rd grade students during the month of May.

These May math challenges & brainteasers have engaging end of the year themes students love, and are a perfect way to extend and enrich your advanced second and third grade mathematicians’ learning!

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

Highlights

  • Digital downloads Google Apps, PDF
  • Grades 2nd - 3rd
  • Subjects Math, Other (Math)
  • Standards
    CCSS 3.MD.C.5CCSS 3.MD.C.6CCSS 3.MD.C.7CCSS 3.MD.D.8CCSS 4.MD.A.1CCSS 4.MD.A.2CCSS 4.MD.A.3CCSS 2.NBT.B.5CCSS 2.NBT.B.6CCSS 2.NBT.B.7CCSS 3.NBT.A.2CCSS 4.NBT.B.4CCSS 4.NBT.B.5CCSS 2.OA.A.1CCSS 3.OA.A.2CCSS 3.OA.D.8CCSS 4.OA.A.3
  • Tags Centers, End of Year, Printables
  • Pages 68
  • Answer Key Included

Description

Includes 26 math printables + virtual math activities and answer keys you can use for math centers, homework, fast finishers, small groups, number talks, math enrichment , end of the year activities or whole class problem solving.

May/End of the Year themes include: Field Day, Ice Cream, Awards Assemblies, Talent Shows, Class Parties, Field Trips, Mother’s Day, Desk Cleaning, Sports, Gardens, and Flowers.

Included in this pack:

10 Math Challenges

  • Track and Field (Adding two-digit numbers, time, guess and check, logical thinking)
  • May Minutes (Adding and subtracting three-digit numbers, converting minutes to hours)
  • Sailboat Scramble (Adding 1 and 2-digit numbers, guess and check, logical thinking)
  • Field Day Rotations (Addition, multiplication, converting minutes to hours)
  • Ice Cream Sundaes (Combinations, organizing data, easier)
  • Ice Cream Sundaes with Whip (Combinations, organizing data, more difficult)
  • End of Year Slideshow (Addition, multiplication, converting seconds to minutes)
  • Class Party (Fractions, using fractional parts to find size of a group)
  • Field Trip Groups (Adding multiple 2-digit numbers, division without remainders)
  • Garden Growth (Doubling numbers, adding decimals {.75 & .5}, converting inches to feet and inches)

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

16 Brainteasers

  • Ice Cream Cones (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • Awards Assembly (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • Talent Show Tricks (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • Final Field Trip (Logical thinking, guess and check)
  • Flower Patch Design #1 (Identifying area and perimeter given rectangles, easier)
  • Flower Patch Design #2 (Drawing rectangles given partial information about area, perimeter, length, and width, more difficult)
  • Flower Patch Design #3 (Drawing rectangles given partial information about area, perimeter, length, and width, most difficult)
  • Desk Cleaning #1 (In/Out Tables, subtraction only)
  • Desk Cleaning #2 (In/Out Tables, subtraction and division)
  • Sporty Sentences #1 (Addition and subtraction to 20, balancing equations)
  • Sporty Sentences #2 (Addition and subtraction to 100, balancing equations)
  • BEST Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
  • YEAR Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
  • FLOWER Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
  • GARDEN Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
  • SUNFLOWER 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

Terms & Conditions

You may:

  • Use this item for your own classroom and/or students.
  • Make copies of anything in this product for use in your classroom by your students.
  • Use this product in your own classroom year after year.

You may not:

  • Give this item to others.
  • Copy this item for use by others.
  • Use any piece of this product to create a product, free or priced.
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Contact

If you have any questions before purchase, feel free to email me at katiesmith@iwanttobeasuperteacher.com or contact me through the contact forms here on the site. I would love to hear from you!

 

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73 reviews for May Math Challenges & Brainteasers

  1. Sonya W. –

    Great resource!

  2. EZ Teaching with Emily –

    these are absolutely amazing!!

  3. The Classroom Vault –

    Perfect

  4. Marcy Boatman –

    Perfect for end of the year math journals and homework. My kids had a lot of fun with these. Thank you!

  5. Roslyn D. –

    Thanks for all the hard work this is so great! You are so amazing!

  6. TravelingThirdGrade –

    Some problems were a little difficult for my students to do on their own; however, excellent morning work!

  7. Sarah A. –

    Great resource!

  8. Tamela S. –

    Great resource for my students needing more challenging activities.

  9. Jacqueline H. –

    Great end of the year practice and summer packet!

  10. Raquel K. –

    I love these challenges for my students – they look forward to the new ones that I offer each month! Thank you!

  11. MrsTrahanTeaches –

    Awesome resource!

  12. Kelly Hardwicke –

    Love this fun resource!

  13. Mama Stacey’s –

    This product will be very engaging for my students throughout the rest of the year, thank you!

  14. Lindsey Bloom –

    Great to use after standardized testing is over and all standards have been taught.

  15. Peace Love Shamrocks –

    My students loved these challenges!

  16. Alicia D. –

    lots of fun!

  17. Kaitlyn R. –

    This was a great activity for early finishers! My students loved it!

  18. Beth J. –

    Great for high kids who need challenges

  19. Kelsey Barnes –

    Thanks for sharing!

  20. BusyTeachin4th –

    My students and I had so much fun with these after testing! They were challenged and loved every minute of it. Thank you!

  21. Lori C. –

    This is really useful!

  22. Simple 5th –

    Nice

  23. Paul S. –

    Good materialreview

  24. Kelli E. –

    These are a great way to challenge my third graders!

  25. Casey H. –

    My kiddos are loving these challenges!

  26. Grade 2 Guru –

    I need more of these!!

  27. Kristen M W. –

    Kids loved these!

  28. Shawna K –

    Excited to use this product- looks great!

  29. Colleen L. –

    Thank you so much for creating this resource!

  30. A Latte Literacy –

    absolutely love this resource!

  31. Giggles and Games Galore with Natalie –

    Great

  32. Teaching Trends –

    Excellent

  33. Lisa Kaye –

    Great resource

  34. CulbrethCreations –

    Great resource!

  35. Megan M. –

    Great for the end of the year!

  36. Trudy B. –

    Thank You

  37. Sherri P. –

    Great resource.

  38. Kelly E. –

    Great end of the year work.

  39. Kathleen N. –

    I used this at the end of the year as students were finishing things up.Great extension.

  40. Rebecca C. –

    Great resource! Thank you!

  41. Paige L. –

    great for end of the year fillers

  42. Be Snazzy –

    Perfect resource for the fast finishers or just a challenge

  43. Suzanne S. –

    This resource is fabulous! It allows the students to apply their knowledge in a creative and meaningful way. Thank you.

  44. Melissa M. –

    This activity was so helpful for distance learning!!

  45. Jaime J. –

    My kids loved these fast finisher activities!

  46. Elizabeth P. –

    This is a great resource to really get my students thinking. I love that it engages higher order thinking skills. They worked in teams and loved this!

  47. Caitlin C. –

    These are awesome for my fast finishers and higher math students. I love the log problems, too!!!

  48. amy W. –

    Perfect for printing out to use for a take home summer packet!

  49. Karen R. –

    Even though my students are in 4th grade it was very challenging for them.

  50. Elementary Elegance –

    I really enjoyed this resource! I would say that depending on the make-up of your class, it may be too high for 2nd grade. My low babies could not understand it… but my GT students LOVED it!

  51. Caroline K. –

    Absolutely love this resource!

  52. Brandi VanCleave –

    Great resource!

  53. Leslie T. –

    Good stuff!!

  54. Carolyn Brightbill –

    I used this resource to help me differentiate and challenge students!

  55. Jen S. –

    My students love these activities. Thank you!

  56. Lauren M. –

    Kids loved it for year-end activities.

  57. Lindsey C. –

    This was a great resource for center work!!

  58. Designed to Educate By DEB –

    This is an awesome resource!

  59. Laura G. –

    My students are loving the use of these resources. The favorite has to be the brainteasers. Each day they are racing to see who can figure it out first! Excellent.

  60. Kimmy’s Classroom –

    Awesome resource!

  61. Laura W. –

    Fabulous resource!

  62. Carlie B. –

    Fun way to end the school year

  63. Toddy Reese –

    I used this to review the concept with my students.

  64. Kara T. –

    LOVE this resource! Can’t wait to use it this coming school year!

  65. Carlie O. –

    This was such a great resource to practice all of our third grade math skills at the end of the year!

  66. A Court of Teaching –

    My students LOVE these challenge packets! They are great early finisher activities that keep them engaged!

  67. Ms Foxs Third Graders –

    Absolutely LOVE these challenge packets for my very advanced kiddos who do not even need to be in my class, lol! So challenging and engaging! Haven’t found anything else on TPT quite like these!

  68. Amanda R. –

    These resources were really engaging and my students had a blast during our last week of math lessons answering these problems.

  69. Christina Morrill –

    Great resource, easily able to integrate into our classwork- thank you!

  70. Amber S. –

    Great resource for the end of the year – helps to review and keep students engaged.

  71. Johanna Brown –

    This was a great resource to use with my soon to be third graders!

  72. A Latte Lesson Plans –

    This is a great resource to help students practice skills learned throughout the year!

  73. Iliana Felipe –

    It was a great resource for end of year fillers. Kids loved it.

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