Investigate Math: Grade 3 Open-Ended Math Problems to Develop Flexible Thinking Skills

Give students plenty of opportunities to investigate math concepts and skills more deeply. The open-ended activities in this book encourage students to look at math problems from various angles and explore how new concepts fit into what they already know about math. Students expand their understanding through the use of manipulatives or representational drawing as well as writing. Skills include multiplication, division, operations in base ten, fractions, measurement, geometry, and more.

Cindi Mitchell, author of the original Amazing Math Puzzles & Mazes: Grades 4–5, is a former teacher with more than 12 years experience teaching at the elementary level. She has written numerous activity books published by Scholastic Teaching Resources.