Are Your Kids Ready for These Basketball Math Puzzles?
Math + Basketball = Fun! Fun! Fun!
Are you and your students huge basketball fans?
Whether it's professional or college hoops, odds are that your kids have a favorite basketball team and get excited about March Madness every spring.
And since both the NBA (professional) and NCAA (college) basketball seasons are currently in full swing, now is a great time to channel some of your kids' enthusiasm for hoops into your lesson plans with a fun basketball-themed math puzzle!
Relating sports to mathematics is a great way to share awesome real-world connections in math, like how talent scouts use math to evaluate players, and channel your students’ enthusiasm for sports into meaningful learning experiences.
The following basketball-themed math puzzles for elementary level and middle school level students are sample activities from our best-selling PDF math workbook: The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.
The puzzles are tiered by difficulty using the following color system used in the workbook.
Pink Level (Grades 1-2) | Blue Level (Grades 3-4) | Green Level (Grades 5-6+)
Free Basketball Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6+
(answer keys to follow)
Pink Level Puzzle ( for Grades 1-2)
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Blue Level Puzzle (for Grades 3-4)
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Green Level Puzzle (for Grades 5-6+)
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Wait! Do You Want More Fun Math Activities and Puzzles Like These to Share with Your Students?
If you and your students had a positive experience with today’s basketball math puzzles, then you will love our latest math puzzle book, The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6, which shares 300+ kid-friendly and differentiated math activities that are easy to print and share.
The book covers math topics like:
-adding and subtracting
-multiplying and dividing
-applying order of operations
-fractions
-multiplication tables
-area models
-math writing activities
It also includes a complete answer key and several useful templates.
Take a Look Inside
You can access the entire Table of Contents by clicking here.
And you can click the links below to access some sample pages:
Pink Level Samples (for Grades 1 and 2): Sample A | Sample B
Blue Level Samples (for Grades 3 and 4): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C
Green Level Samples (for Grades 5 and 6+): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C
There are three puzzles per page and they include the familiar name/date/directions sections that are included in typical math worksheets, which makes them easier to print and share aswarm-up and exit-ticket activities, in lesson plans, and as extra credit and homework assignments.
Click here to get your copy of The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.
And check out the solutions to the basketball-themed puzzles below:
Pink Level (Grades 1-2): basketball=8, hoop=5, sneaker=10, ?=18
Blue Level (Grades 3-4): basketball=12, hoop=6, sneaker=14, clipboard=7, ?=39
Green Level (Grades 5-6+): basketball=6, hoop=6, sneaker=18, clipboard=10, ?=96
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By Anthony Persico
Anthony is the lead educator and founder of Mashup Math. He lives in Denver, Colorado and is also a YouTube for Education partner. Follow him on Twitter at @mashupmath.