Grade Span K–2
Betty's Blocks
Students extend a pattern to determine the total blocks that will be used to build towers.
Buttons for Snowmen
Students determine the number of buttons needed for three snowmen’s eyes and nose.
Calendar Problem
Given a pattern for a calendar, students determine how many different colored stickers are needed for the month of December.
Chaperones
Students find the number of possible chaperone groupings for students going on a science fieldtrip.
Dandelion Dilemma
Students count the number of dandelion plants inside a square area then answer questions about the dandelion plants.
Eating Jelly Beans
Given a pattern, students determine how many jelly beans will have been eaten by the end of Saturday.
Farmer Brown
Given the type and number of animals, students show how many animals are in each of three pens.
Finicky Cat
Students find all the combinations of cat food.
Flies and a Frog
Students continue the pattern to determine how many flies will be eaten in a day.
Happy Birthday, Abby
Students show how many possible shapes a cake can be cut so that four children get the same size piece of cake.
Hatching Chicks
Students find how many chicks are hatched in different incubators.
Holiday Fair Shopping Spree
Students determine how many different ways to spend $2.00 with 25 cents or 50 cents at the school holiday fair.
Ice Cream
Given different flavors of ice cream and cones, students must determine the number of combinations they might have.
Legs
Students determine the number of legs of people and chairs in a classroom.
Let's Plan a Party
Given an allotted time for events, students plan the schedule for a class party to celebrate everyone reading 50 books.
Let's Play
Students extend a pattern to determine which playground equipment the seventh student will hold.
Lining Up
Given a pattern for lining up the classroom, students decide if a boy or girl will be the 10th person.
Lynn's Ladder
Students decide how three different colors can be used to paint a pattern on the rungs of a forest ranger's ladder.
Mary Quite Contrary
Students identify a pattern for planting flowers and determine how many flowers will be planted in different numbers of rows.
A New Necklace
Given a colored pattern for a necklace, students extend the pattern.
Nine Cents
Students determine the possible combinations of nine cents.
Perplexing Palindrome Problem
Students identify arithmetic palindromes.
Petal Power
Given the number of flowers and petals, students show a garden with three flowers in it.
Renting Craft Space
Students determine the rental price for craft spaces so that each renter is paying a fair price.
Riding at the Playground
Given the amount of Big Wheel and bicycle riders, students determine how many wheels were on the playground.
Sharing Sleds
Students decide how eight sleds can be shared so that 16 first graders can slide down the hill at the same time.
A Shower of Shapes
Students will arrange rectangles and squares from a four–inch square paper into a symmetrical design.
Someone's Been Eating My Porridge
Students use clues to sort three types of noodles into bowls.
Staying Warm
Students determine the possible combinations of ways to keep warm while playing in the snow.
Sweet Sale
Given 20 cents to spend, students determine how many pieces of candy were purchased for 20 cents.
Time for Math
Students determine how many students could sit around each side of three square tables to do their math.
Wonderful Leaves
Students measure a leaf in as many ways as they can with rainbow cubes or graph paper.
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