Fun-Filled Reproducible Mystery Stories That Build Essential Math Problem-Solving Skills
Make Math Fun!
Building serious math skills has never been so much fun!

5 Responses to “40 Fabulous Math Mysteries Kids Can’t Resist (Grades 4-8)”

1. Marlene Hendricks says:

   October 16, 2009 at 12:00 am

   I bought this book for my gifted and talented students for math enrichment. After three activities, it was unanimous. They hated it! They said it was boring and preferred working out of the math textbook. Wow.
2. DET says:

   July 29, 2009 at 12:00 am

   The text can be confusing and the problems sometime refer to ones that came before, so it can be hard to skip some of them. I think I will have to paraphase rather than read outright and choose the problems carefully to avoid those that are too easy, too hard, or just sort of odd.
3. John Provasnik says:

   February 16, 2009 at 12:00 am

   The quality of the questions in the book are good for middle school students. However, I was hoping to get shorter word problems. The problems in this book are set up as short stories (between one and two pages of text). The students are to read through the stories to find clues that will help solve the problems stated in each story.

   This may be a very good enrichment activity, but not for students who struggle with both reading and math as it involves “too much” to come up with a solution: reading skills, comprehension, math skills, and deductive reasoning.
4. M. Yang says:

   January 27, 2009 at 12:00 am

   this booms my kids’ interests even higher on problem-solving scenarios. it leads them to think and solve problems. Good book!
5. Anonymous says:

   January 17, 2009 at 12:00 am

   Some of the activities were not clear in understanding but overall a fun and different way to understand math. This book would really benefit 6th, 7th, and 8th graders well.