Box Puzzles Bundle of 3: Exploration with Numbers - Number Properties

Encourage students to explore with numbers in these 3 Box Puzzles lessons. Use as an enrichment activity or to model the Commutative, Associative, and Distributive Properties.

Fun activity for the kids in a no-pressure exploration of how numbers relate to each other.

Teacher Keys and Video Instructions are included.

Standards:

• CCSS.5.NBT.B.7
• CCSS.6.NS.C.6c
• CCSS.7.NS.A.2c

*Box Puzzles "Think Inside the Box" is the first level of solving box puzzles. Students explore and make predictions for whole numbers, fractions, and negative numbers. (If your students are younger, you can delete the section on negative numbers). The lesson uses zoo animals to show why box puzzles work, and students can also create their own box puzzle.

*"Box Puzzles 2" is lesson teaching students to use box puzzles to solve addition of a series of numbers. When they complete the practice problems, they will have a method for adding all the even numbers between 1 and 100!!

*"Box Puzzles 3" teaches students to use more advanced box puzzles. These box puzzles build on the puzzles introduced in the first Box Puzzles lesson. Distributive Property is used to explain how these puzzles work.