PUBLIC MARKS with tags gr4 & "problem solving"

Use the broken calculator to solve your math problems in a creative way. Can you add 2+2 if the addition key is broken? Sure can..how about (3*2)-2 . The answer is the same! Create some challenges for you, your friends, and teachers!

With Scholastic's Global Classport, you can communicate with classrooms in 182 countries, and collaborate with teachers around the world. Note: Remember that your username must include "_scholastic" . Use to connect with other classrooms to solve Math Maven's Mysteries

This content resource is an index of links to interactive sites, challenging students to solve mysteries using a variety of math principles. Students read the stories, solve the problems, and answer the questions, using clues embedded in the stories to discover the solution. Included are links to a variety of teacher resources.http://teacher.scholastic.com/maven/tguide.htm

Read the word problem and choose the best strategy for solving the problem.

Variety of math and problem solving puzzles. Reading required for instructions. Some games appropriate for grade 3 with instruction

How many disguises can you make for each character. Do you notice a pattern?

Great number sequence game for whole class instruction. Allows for a variety of patterns that are teacher selected.

You must follow the rules to get throught the Cave maze. Choose easy, medium, hard. Improve your problem-solving with this game!

Help the farmer get the chicken, the fox, and the corn across the river without anything being eaten!

Try this...not as easy as it looks! What's your strategy??

Sharpen your thinking skills for grades 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8.

Try these problem solving interactive investigations. You will need to use your logic and reasoning skills to complete the activities. Teacher introduction may be needed. Some actvities may be appropriate for gr4.

Sir Richard Harmoat-Wilde plans to be the first to cross the Atlantic in a hot air balloon. Half way across disaster strikes - the balloon punctures and begins to lose height. Pupils working together have to find out what the airship is carrying and jettison equipment in order to make it across.

A thinking for learning activity to encourage group discussion and justification of decision making. 6 people are left on a liferaft, for the raft to stay afloat 2 people must be thrown off.Who will it be? Why? Is it fair? Who should go first? Are some lives less valuable than others?