Teachers are always looking for hands-on ways for their students to practice math skills. Printable math puzzles for 2nd grade are a great option because they are engaging, independent, self-correcting, and easy to prep. We've got a math puzzle for every 2nd grade standard! Read on for ways to implement these standards-based puzzles in your classroom.
What are Math Puzzles
Math puzzles are a hands on option for students to practice their math skills. Math puzzles are available in black and white, full color, editable, and student scrambled.
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When to use Math Puzzles
Math puzzles are great to use during math centers, as an early finisher, intervention activity, or even a math enrichment activity. For more math centers ideas read this post: Math Centers Organization.
How to use Printable Math Puzzles for 2nd Grade
Students solve the math problem on each puzzle piece. The answer gets written in the circle provided on the puzzle piece. Then the student arranges the answers in order from least to greatest. Once finished, the math puzzle will display a picture.
Student Accountability
Teachers who prefer to have a more structured accountability piece with the math puzzles can choose to print the recording sheets (which are included in each math puzzle download) The student would write the name of the puzzle, which is found in the top right hand corner of the puzzle. Then the student writes his/her answers in the bubbles on the recording sheet.
Self Correcting Options
One of the many benefits of using these math puzzles is that they are self correcting and completely independent. This provides the teacher with the opportunity to help other students or teach a small group.
Once the student has arranged the pieces in order from least to greatest, the student will be able to determine if the puzzle makes sense and looks right. If not, the student would remove the piece(s) that look out of place and attempt to solve it again.
Math Puzzles Skills
Our Math Puzzles are broken down into monthly/seasonal skill packs, but also by math skills. Here is the skills breakdown.
Number Sense
- Even & Odd
- Numbers 0-10, then 11-20
- Skip Counting
Place Value
- Two, three and four-digit place value skills
- Rounding
Addition & Subtraction
- Addition to 20
- Addition with & without regrouping (single, two and three-digit)
- Addition/subtraction facts & strategies
- Doubles
- Missing Addends
- Subtraction with & without regrouping (single, two and three-digit)
Fractions
- Identifying fractional parts
Money
- Coin identification
- Coin counting (same & mixed coins)
Time
- Telling time to the hour
- Telling time to the half hour
- Telling time to the nearest 5 minutes
Multiplication
- Multiplication facts & strategies practice
Math Puzzles Storage
Math puzzles can be stored in a variety of ways. There's not a right or wrong way to store these. Just pick the storage method that works for your classroom. Some of teachers' favorite storage options include Sterilite drawers, binder rings, plastic baggies, and binder clips.
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Do you have a tutorial somewhere for the editable puzzles? I tried editing one but then it wouldn’t print the whole image, just the clipart. I got really frustrated and gave up.
Hello Camille, Try saving the powerpoint file as a PDF after editing it, and then print from the PDF. That should do the trick!