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Broken Calculator: 2-Digit Addition

Broken Calculator: 2-Digit Addition

Broken Calculator: 2-Digit Subtraction

Broken Calculator: 2-Digit Subtraction

Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)

Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)

Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit addition.

Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Single Solution)

Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Single Solution)

Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit subtraction.

Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)

Subtraction: 3 Digits Minus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)

Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit subtraction.

Evens and Odds – Addition and Subtraction

Evens and Odds – Addition and Subtraction

When we’re adding and subtracting, do evens make odds into evens? Do odds make evens odd? Which one has… more power!?

Create Your Own Operation

Create Your Own Operation

The commutative and associative properties are a whole lot more interesting when you apply them to a mathematical operation that you created!

How Many Ways: Order of Operations 1

How Many Ways: Order of Operations 1

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Math Curiosity: Magic Squares

Math Curiosity: Magic Squares

Imagine a 3×3 square in which every row, column, and diagonal have the same sum. That’s a magic square!

Math Curiosity: Odds & Squares

Math Curiosity: Odds & Squares

Why does the sum of the first 5 odds also equal 5 squared?

Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture

Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture

Using this one weird trick, it seems that you can turn any number into a palindrome!