Christmas Math Puzzles and Activities
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[Update: Also check out the annual Price of Christmas Index to see what the "12 Days of Christmas" gifts would cost you this year. Or visit Advent Math via Nrich.Maths.org to play with a math activity every day until Christmas.]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled math program to bring you the following Christmas links…
First, A to Z Home’s Cool offers some fun for older students and teachers:
- An Engineer Calculates Santa’s Trip
- 14 Days of Homeschooling
- [Edited to add: The math blog 360 posts some more advanced Christmas fun here and here.]
And now, something to keep the youngsters busy while we finish our Christmas shopping, wrapping, baking, and everything-ing:
Deb at About.com brings us several worksheets:
- Easy Christmas picture sudoku
- Christmas tree puzzle
- Christmas chart/table worksheets
- Word problems, grades 1-8
Two middle school teachers provide an assortment of word problems:
Finally, Mathwire.com puts together a tremendous grab-bag of hands-on activity ideas for every elementary and middle school student on your list:
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