Mini Mathematical Murder Mysteries: Sixteen Activities to Stretch and Engage Ages 11-13 (Mini Math Murders)

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There are many benefits to doing maths puzzles, challenges and games, not least because many children find them enjoyable. As well as helping with test preparation, this type of activity can help children develop fluency and enthusiasm for maths as they see a context which doesn't always appear on worksheets.

Regional Inequalities - This Murder Mystery is set in a school and the students need to use their knowledge of regional inequality graphs to locate the murderer. Practise converting fractions, decimals and percentages by encouraging pupils to create works of art using a classic 10×10 number grid as part of this well-structured activity. Revise essential topics with a variety of questions and timed challenges spread over five rounds. The answers are even included, making awarding the winner that much easier. Get pupils deciphering five clues to reveal a single culprit from 32 suspects in this murderous activity, which recaps knowledge of 2D shapes, angles and coordinates.

This mystery maths activity requires children to use a combination of their maths skill and intuition to help form sentences out of the words they uncover. By giving children a problem to solve, we're giving children a positive incentive that allows them to practice a certain skill, in this case, it's their knowledge of place value. With each crime creating a natural incentive for progression, your pupils will build specific skills as they put each piece in the right place for a successful investigation! The murder mystery activities lend themselves ideally to starters/plenaries or as the body of revision lessons.

Maths murder mysteries are a brilliant way to engage students within their learning as well as starting to explore both their reasoning and problem solving skills. Below are a few of the murder mysteries I have made and used with my students of varying abilities and ages. Number Promote an interest in geometry while recapping key compass and ruler skills in this fascinating lesson, which sees learners creating beautiful, display-worthy shapes.Revision- This Maths Murder Mystery involves students practising and applying their basic algebra, number and geometry skills. Data Handling Just one of our Year 4 to Year 3 Maths worksheets in PDF format, this can help problem-solving skills among children. They must be able to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000, and also work out proportions of numbers by fractions. Is this resource suitable for home-learning? Now that the exams are done and your reports have been submitted, the countdown to the summer break is officially on! And what better way to end the year than with a few fun lessons, designed to keep pupils learning right up until the final bell rings? When a number is multiplied by 10, the digits in the number move one place to the left. If a place is left empty, then a placeholder (zero) is used in the empty column.