Math Enrichment
Resources for Primary Students
Advanced math students need depth, application and higher level problem solving to be challenged in math. The resources below are hopefully some that make it easy to find more in-depth problems for advanced math students.
Finding Challenging Problems
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Math Rules
The Robert Kaplinsky website offers math problems utilizing problem-based lessons with real world application and depth. Many include video introductions - all organized by grade level. He also provides a Spreadsheet by Standards for available math problems and a Problem Solving Framework. His Depth of Knowledge blog post has some useful examples of DOK frameworks for elementary and middle school math.
- a “closed beginning” meaning that they all start with the same initial problem.
- a “closed end” meaning that they all end with the same answer.
Search by grade and/or standard.
Mathwire.com has lots of resources for math enrichment. Here are links to open-ended problems organized by grade and standard.
Problem Solving Grades K-2Calling all math detectives! Mysteries are popping up all over town, and our chief sleuth needs your help to crack each case.
Math Maven's Mysteries (printable)
Math Mysteries (online mysteries for students 7-9 years old)
These puzzles are fun activities for children and cover several math topics for each grade (Grades 1-7). Each puzzle link connects to a printable PDF sheet which also has an answer sheet attached.
Lower Primary (stage 1) = Grades 1-2
Upper Primary (Stage 2) = Grades 3-5
Secondary (Stages 3-4)=Grades 6-10
READ ABOUT MATH
Wonderopolis - Explore the wonders of math with Wonderopolis. Students can explore real world math questions and challenges. Students can use these Wonderopolis pages to record their research. This can be added to Google Classrooms so students can link directly to articles or used without Google Classroom.
Plus Math Magazine is an online popular mathematics magazine run under the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge
On the About Today's Date website students can find odd and interesting facts about the numerals making up today’s date.
Thinking Challenges
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Creative Math Prompts - Thinking About Math
The Math 5280 website has a wealth of creative math prompts aligned to content areas of CC Standards. Check out the "Which One Doesn't Belong?" prompts.
Students can use this "What Do You Notice? What Do You Wonder?" page to record their mathematical thinking and reasoning.
The 101 Questions website has videos and pictures searchable by grade and content area that can be used for mathematical thinking prompts and "What's the Math Question?"
Write Your Own Story Problems
Think Math! regularly presents situations to elicit mathematical questions and make many true mathematical statements. They have a unique feature called Headline Stories that provides open-ended situations in which specific mathematical ideas are embedded.
Students can use this Think Like a Mathematician challenge to research animals, collect animal data, and write their own story problems.
Math Sphere
Download- PowerPoint Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 and Lesson 3
Logical Thinking/Brain Teasers
Brainbashers - Lots of challenging brainteasers at various levels.
Links to Logic - printable learning center of logic grid problems
A+ Click Math and Logic Problems- organized by grade, topic, and interest
Brain Teasers-Animated logic problems, word problems, and puzzles for elementary students
24 Game
Introduction to 24 Cards - Intermediate
Math Games
Muggins Game - Print, add some dice and it's ready to go as a math center for addition, subtraction, multiplication and/or division.
21 Fun Math Games has easy to print math games.
Investigating Dominoes has lots of ideas for students to learn number sense in a fun way.
Math Tricks
Any math student would love to learn a few of these fun tricks.
ELA and Math Connection
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Depth and Complexity in Math
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Overview of the Depth and Complexity Icons - Math
How do the dimensions of depth and complexity fit into mathematics?
Envision Gifted! Differentiating for Gifted Learners has a nice page on ways to integrate the depth and complexity framework into math instruction. Facilitate a more sophisticated understanding of a concept, integrate content areas and help students develop a deeper understanding of mathematics. A good place to start is with the Language of the Discipline - see below.