Skip Counting Puzzle Fun

Are you teaching skip counting in your Grade One patterns and algebra lessons? This 7-page digital interactive activity will delight your young students! To complete the strip puzzle, little mathematicians must squence the skip counting pattern, using their early tech skills to drag the puzzle pieces into position on-screen!

To play, create a copy for each student and assign it on their individual device (in Creation or Edit mode). Alternatively, project on your smartboard or a shared device as a math center or warm up!

Through this activity, students will show their ability to count within 1000 and skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your math lessons. 

In addition to individual student work time, use this activity to enhance learning through guided math groups, whole class lessons, or home assignments. 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners and ELL/ESL students, we have a few suggestions for keeping students on track with these concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

For students who need additional support, provide visual cues like skip counting charts or a hundreds board, and first focusing on two-digit numbers only.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

If there are students looking for a challenge which will also engage their fine motor skills, have students create their very own skip counting puzzle using colored paper, pencils and scissors. 

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to select the Google Slides version of this resource. 

Assign this interactive activity in Google Classroom. Please be sure to open in Edit mode, not Presentation mode. Students click/drag/drop to solve the problems.

This resource was created by Kendall Britnell, a teacher in Colorado and Teach Starter Collaborator. 

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