Winter Math Mystery (GRADE 5)

Winter Math Mystery Activity (GRADE 5 US Common Core Aligned)

This Winter Math Mystery is common core aligned. Designed to engage your students, this winter activity gets them solving clues to help them discover where the Ice Queen is being held captive in order to put a stop to the rising Snowman Army! Entertain and motivate your students with this fun winter detective story, which also encourages critical thinking as they must reason their way through eliminating locations.

A terrifying army of snowmen are marching towards our city by the hundreds and could be at your doorstep before dawn if they are not stopped! The people of Mathhattan are hoping that a brilliant math detective will be assisting Larry the Wizard and the police to find the Ice Queen.

In this winter math mystery pack you will receive:
- Teacher Instructions
- The Winter Math Mystery Story “Case of The Snowman Army”
- Possible Locations List - that students will use as they work through each math clue worksheet.
- Clue 1 Worksheet: Multiply Fractions by Whole Numbers
- Clue 2 Worksheet: Word Problems - Add & Subtract Money
- Clue 3 Worksheet: Equivalent Fractions (Fill in the missing numerator to make a pair of fractions equivalent)
- Clue 4 Worksheet: Rounding Decimals (Whole, Tenths, Hundredths)
- Clue 5 Worksheet: Continuing Patterns
- A location declaration sheet that includes a clue completion checklist and a teacher check off as solved/try again.
- Answer sheets for each clue plus a color coded guide to the elimination process of the locations list.
- Printable awards to give to students who solve the case by discovering where the warlock is keeping the Ice Queen captive.


Available for other grades with different skills/levels of difficulty. Please email me on jjresourcecreations@gmail.com for assistance.

*US spelling used. Please email me on jjresourcecreations@gmail.com if you would like adjusted to suit UK/AUS spelling.

Mrs J.

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