If you're teaching missing addends ... if you've EVER taught missing addends... you know it can be quite challenging! Whether you teach missing addends with manipulatives or with number lines, as counting on to the total or subtracting - wait, you do all of these, right?? Well, you also know that most students just can't get enough practice on this skill!
Riddles to the rescue! Riddles are high interest, motivating, and the fun format of these riddle task cards beats a worksheet hands down!
When your students finish this set of 24 task cards, they'll have completed 72 number models for missing addends! And they won't even realize it, because these elimination riddles are fun!
How can you use these riddles in your classroom? Here are a few ideas!
* Use in a math center for
individual or partner work
* Use with your document camera for whole class review or to focus attention at the beginning of a
* Use with your document camera for whole class review or to focus attention at the beginning of a
math lesson
* Use as a skills review rotation, individually or with partners, with students moving to stations
around the classroom to solve the
clues - think "Scoot!"
* Use for morning “bell ringers”
* Use
as exit tickets
* Use as challenge work or for
early finishers
You might even have your students use them as models for creating their own riddle task cards! Writing, math, logic... I just love it when a few standards pile up on top of each other in one lesson!
If you find that you enjoy using riddles like these, here are a few more (okay, a bunch more!) that you might like!
You can find these and more riddles for K-4 in the Math Riddle Task Cards category at my store. Plus, these riddles are fun to make, so you can be sure that more are on the way! If you have suggestions of sets you'd like to see, I'd love it if you'd leave a comment! Thanks!
Happy Teaching!
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