Critical Thinking - Place Value Riddles for Three Digit and Four Digit Numbers

This bundle of 150 place value riddle cards for three digit and four digit numbers will make it easy to promote mental math skills and to differentiate, to keep all levels of learners from second grade through fifth grade engaged in fun and productive practice!

There are three sets included in this bundle, two for high second grade, third grade, and fourth grade (100 cards) and another for fourth and fifth grade (50 cards), allowing you to easily span the ability of all of your students. Your struggling learners will find success, and your more advanced learners will be challenged, too!!

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Each of the three sets includes...

• 50 multi-step riddle cards that use place level position along with other math skills as clues for the digits in a number.
• A themed student recording page and answer key
• A board game that uses the riddle cards
• Four task cards to extend your use of the riddle cards in math rotations and math centers
• The Monkeying Around set also includes ready-to-use Easel digital riddles.

How will you use these?

⭐ A riddle a day makes spiral review of math vocabulary, concepts, and processes a snap!

⭐ Use them as a math rotation activity.

⭐ They're excellent to use as a bell ringer activity! Put a riddle up on your interactive board for students to solve as they enter your classroom.

⭐ Use a place value riddle as the basis for a daily number talk centered on mental math. No more struggling to come up with a new idea every day!

⭐ Focus student attention at the beginning of your math lesson by solving a riddle together.

⭐ Tutors and parent volunteers love keeping a set of riddle cards on hand for an easy way to fill extra moments at the end of a lesson.

⭐ They’re also perfect for GATE, enrichment, or early finishers!

Here's what teachers have said about place value riddle cards:

⭐ "Love the simple, forced thinking skills that are practiced."

⭐ "Love how these riddles really make the kiddos think!! Will be using them for whole class mental maths challenges! Thank you!"

⭐ "Fun and challenging - gets kids thinking in different ways!"

⭐ "We have been working on Place Value and I wanted something to challenge their thinking. This was just the thing I was looking for! "

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