Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Math Activities | Math Challenges & Brainteasers with Candy Themes

Included in this pack:

18 Math Challenges

• Charlie’s Candy Combinations #1 (Combinations of 2, organizing data, easier)
• Charlie’s Candy Combinations #2 (Combinations of 2, organizing data, more difficult)
• Squirrel Strength #1 (Converting ounces to pounds, division without remainders, easier)
• Squirrel Strength #2 (Converting ounces to pounds, division without remainders, more difficult)
• Gum Supply #1 (Calendar math, division without remainders, easier)
• Gum Supply #2 (Calendar math, division with remainders, more difficult)
• Teavee Addict #1 (Converting minutes to hours, multiplication, easier)
• Teavee Addict #2 (Converting hours to days, multiplication and division, more difficult)
• The Conveyer Belt #1 (Converting seconds to minutes, multiplication, easier)
• The Conveyer Belt #2 (Converting seconds, minutes, and hours, multiplication, more difficult)
• Golden Ticket Time #1 (Converting seconds to hours, multiplication, easier)
• Golden Ticket Time #2 (Converting seconds to hours, multiplication, more difficult)
• Fizzy Lifting Drinks #1 (Capacity conversions ounces to gallons, easier)
• Fizzy Lifting Drinks #2 (Capacity conversions ounces to gallons, more difficult)
• The Chocolate Room (2-digit addition, logical thinking, guess and check, organizing data)
• Wonka Map (Perimeter and area, logical thinking)
• Oompa Loompa Output (Logical thinking, adding and subtracting 1 and 2-digit numbers)
• The Great Glass Elevator (Doubling numbers, adding 1, 2, and 3-digit numbers)

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

24 Brainteasers

• Candy Kids (Logical thinking, guess and check, addition to 100)
• Lakeside Seating (Logical thinking, guess and check)
• Caramel Packaging #1 (Place value with ones and tens, easier)
• Caramel Packaging #2 (Place value with ones, tens, and hundreds, more difficult)
• Caramel Packaging #3 (Place value with ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands, most difficult)
• Candy Calculators #1 (In/Out tables, addition and subtraction)
• Candy Calculators #2 (In/Out tables, multiplication and division)
• Candy Calculators #3 (In/Out tables, all operations)
• Candy Store Cost #1 (Adding coins and bills to $5.00)
• Candy Store Cost #2 (Adding coins and bills to $10.00)
• Cookie Puzzler #1 (Spatial reasoning, guess and check, easier)
• Cookie Puzzler #2 (Spatial reasoning, guess and check, easier)
• Cookie Puzzler #3 (Spatial reasoning, guess and check, difficult)
  {Cookie Puzzler problems come in color, and black & white versions}
• Oompa Loompa Equations #1 (Addition and subtraction to 20, balancing equations)
• Oompa Loompa Equations #2 (Addition and subtraction to 100, balancing equations)
• Sugary Sentences #1 (Multiplication with factors to 12, balancing equations)
• Sugary Sentences #2 (Division with divisors to 12, balancing equations)
• Sugary Sentences #3 (Mixed operations with missing numbers, balancing equations)
• BARS #1 Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
• BARS #2 Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
• GOLDen Ticket Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, easier)
• WONKAS Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
• GOLDEN Logic Puzzle (Logical thinking, guess and check, more difficult)
• GOLDENTIX 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. Perfect to use for homework or centers.
• Answer keys for every problem

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Here are a few ideas for how you might use these challenges and brainteasers in your own classroom:

*Use these as extension activities for math contracts. Make a pack of challenge problems for advanced students to use as a fast finisher or during certain in-class math lessons when they’ve already mastered the material. You can read more about this strategy and receive a free editable math contract HERE.

*Use a challenge or brainteaser as a homework option for students who need a challenge, or let them replace a simple homework assignment with the challenge to show parents how well you’re differentiating.

*Use a math challenge or brainteaser as a “number talk” problem to start out your daily math class. Work through it as a class or let students work in partners or small groups to talk through it and solve it together.

*Give a challenge or brainteaser to a small group of students as one of their independent math workshop rotations or use them with your advanced small math group rotation.

*Use the problems as an independent practice activity during a unit on problem solving strategies (guess and check, work backwards, etc.) or attacking a multi-step problem.

*Keep a stack of challenge problems in your classroom fast finisher area for any student who wants a challenge.

*Choose one or two challenge problems for the month and reward any student who can solve both. You can put these on a bulletin board or have them available as additional incentives.

*Use the challenges as a way to integrate math into your WONKA Week. You can read more about WONKA week at this blog post HERE.