Students build critical thinking and put problem-solving strategies to work with these fun, ready-to-go, learning-packed activities! Motivating puzzles, riddles, games, stories, and interactive reproducibles reinforce important grade-specific math skills and concepts and build computational fluency. Includes ideas for group and class discussions, suggestions for connecting writing and math, easy assessment ideas, and student self-assessment forms, teacher checklists, and scoring rubrics.1. Connects to NCTM and state standards2. Engaging activities motivate students to practice and master grade-specific math skills and concepts 3. Covers key math topics and skills, such as place value and numeration, operations, time, measurement, and money, patterns and relationships, collecting and graphing data, geometry and spatial sense, making real-life math connections, and much more4. Includes assessment ideas and forms5. Encourages students to value and become confident in math