Are You Ready to Celebrate Halloween with Your Math Students This Year?
Are your students excited to celebrate Halloween this year?
If so, then you can channel their enthusiasm for this spooky time of year towards learning math with some brand new Halloween-themed two truths and one lie math activities for grades 3-8.
Go ahead and share these activities at any point during your math lessons this month to boost student engagement and bring some holiday festiveness into your classroom. You may also like our 13 Days of Spooky Math Puzzles and these fun hands-on Halloween math activities for all ages. Enjoy!
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The following Halloween Math Activities for elementary and middle school students are samples from my best-selling PDF math workbooks: 101 Two Truths and One Lie! Math Activities for Grades 3-5 and 101 Two Truths and One Lie! Math Activities for Grades 6-8.
Two Truths and One Lie (2T1L) math activities revolve around your students being presented with three facts, images, or statements (only two of which are true). The objective is for students to identify which statement is false and justify why (verbally, in writing, or both).
2T1L activities are an excellent strategy for boosting student engagement, sparking mathematical thinking, and opening small-group or full-class discussions. They are great for warm-up and cool-down activities during the first or final minutes of class.
Free Halloween Math Activities for Grades 3, 4, and 5
(keep reading to get puzzles for grades 6, 7, and 8)
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
Answer Key: 3rd Grade: 3 | 4th Grade: 2 | 5th Grade: 2
You can learn more about 2T1L activities and access more free samples here.
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Free Halloween Math Activities for Grades 6, 7, and 8
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
Answer Key: 6th Grade: 2 | 7th Grade: 2 | 8th Grade: 1
You can learn more about 2T1L activities and access more free samples here.
Looking for more Two Truths and One Lie Math Activities?
You can now share 101 Daily Two Truths & One Lie! Math Activities for Grades 3, 4, & 5 OR Grades 6, 7, & 8 with your kids with our brand new PDF workbooks!
Here are a few more free samples that you can download and share with your kids (right-click to download each graphic and save it to your computer):
Of course, sharing math puzzles with your students is just one effective strategy for boosting engagement in your classroom. Subscribe to our mailing list here to get more free daily resources, lesson plans, ideas, and insights for K-12 math teachers in your inbox every week.
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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.
