Learning Made Fun
  • Blog
  • Teacher Resources
    • Math Mysteries >
      • GRADE 1 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 2 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 3 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 4 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 5 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 6 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 7 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 8 Math Mysteries
    • Reading & Literacy Mysteries
    • Math Projects
    • Math Quests
    • Free Resources
  • Shop
  • Video Library
    • Math Mystery Video Hooks >
      • Case of the 100 Missing Treats
      • Case of The Abducted Alien
      • Case of The Alien Apocalypse
      • Case of The Angry Adder
      • Case of The Bee Bandits
      • Case of the Christmas Chaos
      • Case of the Cursed Classrooms
      • Case of The Disappearing Donuts
      • Case of The Divided Dragon's Division Review
      • Case of The Dream Snatcher
      • Case of The Egg Thief
      • Case of The Forgetful Pharaoh
      • Case of The Furious Falls Winds
      • Case of the Giant Goblin
      • Case of The Gobbler's Curse
      • Case of The Graduation Gremlins
      • Case of the Great Zoo Escape
      • Case of The Greedy Gnome
      • Case of the Halloween Heist
      • Case of the Heartbroken Heroes
      • Case of the Invisible Illusionist - Integers Math Mystery Activity
      • Case of the Jumpy Jack-O-Lanterns Halloween Math Mystery
      • Case of The Jungle Joker
      • Case of The Kidnapped Groundhog
      • Case of The Litterbug
      • Case of the Lost Leprechaun
      • Case of the Magnificent Growth Mindset
      • Case of The Mathattan Meltdown
      • Case of Mean Mountain
      • Case of The Millennium Bug
      • Case of the Mirror Madness
      • Case of The Misplaced Pot of Gold
      • Case of the Missing Campers
      • Case of the Missing Macaw
      • Case of The Monster Mix-Up
      • Case of the Never-Ending Rain
      • Case of the Outback Outlaw
      • Case of The Phantom Phoenix
      • Case of the Pickpocketing Pirate
      • Case of The Poisonous Pizzas
      • Case of The Puzzled Pirate
      • Case of The Robot Robbery
      • Case of The Rogue Runner
      • Case Of The Rotten Eggs
      • Case of The School Invaders
      • Case of The Selfish Elf
      • Case of The Shogun's Sword
      • Case of The Snowman Army
      • Case of The Sticky Bank Burglary
      • Case of The Super Bad Superhero
      • Case of the Thanksgiving Thief
      • Case of The Thankless Turkey
      • Case of The Time Traveling Troll
      • Case of The Tricking Treat
      • Case of The Valentine Villain
      • Case of The Vengeful Vampire
      • Case of The Zombie Elves
    • Junior Reading Mysteries >
      • Bo-Peep's Stolen Sheep
      • Broken Beanstalk
      • Miss Muffet's Missing Muffins
      • Mother Hubbard's Robbed Cupboard
      • Poisoned Porridge
      • Ruined Ruby Slippers
      • Spooky Singer
      • The Ever After Emerald
      • The Greedy Guest
    • Reading Mystery Video Hooks >
      • Burrow Slime
      • EGGpocalypse
      • Fool's Gold Read Mystery
      • Forest Grime - Reading Mystery
      • Haunting Hat - Reading Mystery
      • Humpty's Fall Reading Mystery
      • Knight's Tail
      • Poisoned Valentine
      • Rescue Rudolph
      • Stolen Time
      • Teacher Toads - Reading Mystery
      • Turkey Trouble!
      • Twinkle's Lost Shine
      • Which Witch? - Reading Mystery
      • Wizard Blizzard
    • Math Quest Video Hooks >
      • Escape Monster Mansion
      • Over The Rainbow Math Quest
      • Raiders of The Lost Egg
      • Redbeard's Rebellion
      • Reindeer Roundup
      • School Jungle Jam
      • The Heartless Queen
      • The Terrible Turkey Takeover
    • A-Z Letter Detectives Video Hook >
      • The Case of the Alien's Apples
      • The Case of the Banana Bandit
      • The Case of the Cat's Cookies
      • The Case of the Dragon's Diamonds
      • The Case of the Eagle's Eggs
      • The Case of the Frog's Flowers
      • The Case of the Ghost's Gumballs
      • The Case of the Hippo's Hat
      • The Case of the Iguana's Ice Cream
      • The Case of the Jaguar's Jellybeans
      • The Case of the Kangaroo's Kite
      • The Case of the Lion's Lollipops
      • The Case of the Monster's Map
      • The Case of the Ninja's Necklace
      • The Case of the Octopus's Oar
      • The Case of the Pirate's Pizza
      • The Case of the Queen's Quiver
      • The Case of the Robot's Rocket
      • The Case of the Sloth's Skateboard
      • The Case of the Turtle's Toys
      • The Case of the Unicorn's Umbrella
      • The Case of the Vampire's Violin
      • The Case of the Wizard's Wand
      • The Case of the X-Hero's X-Ray
      • The Case of the Yeti's Yo-Yo
      • The Case of the Zebra's Zucchinnis
    • Background Music >
      • Back to School Mystery Detective Music
      • Christmas Mystery Music
      • Easter Mystery Spy Background Music
      • Halloween Background Music
      • St Patrick's Day Background Music for the Classroom
      • Thanksgiving Mystery Background Music
      • Valentine's Day Mystery Spy Music
  • TPT
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

What are math Quests Used For in the Classroom?

6/21/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
I strongly believe in encouraging kids to attempt math tasks that are  challenging. but fun. Math Quests are a great way to do that in the classroom or at home.
​
---- In case you've never heard of these teaching resources before, Math Quests are gamified worksheets filled with reading passages, math problems and puzzles. ​ ----

So, what are Math Quests  used for in the classroom? In this post, I aim to outline multiple ways these easy prep printables can be used as part of your curriculum. 

Math Quests are meant to be fun, but with the intention of brain work involved. They are designed to be more challenging than my Math Mysteries. So, if you are used to using the Math Mystery resources, you will probably find the Math Quest design a bit more complex. 

Math Mysteries are ideal as a consolidation activity or math review task. However, Math Quests are ideal as an enrichment activity or to set as an early-finisher task that is fun, but still educational. When using all three levels (easy, medium, and hard), Math Quests may also be a useful backup to keep handy for a day when you need to mix things up during math time or for an emergency sub plan. 

Set as an ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY
Since Math Quests require lots of arithmetic, and puzzles (that are sometimes open-ended), they make for a handy resource to use for enrichment. With different levels of difficulty offered, you can opt to challenge your advanced and/or gifted and talented students with the medium/hard level (depending on age and ability suitability).

There is a lot to a single quest story, so it does not need to be completed all in one go. Pace the challenges either chapter by chapter, or allow students to work at their own pace over a few sessions until completing the quest. 

Set as an EARLY FINISHER TASK
It's important that early finisher tasks are still educational; however, they are not just seen as more work either. That's why I've tried my best to make the Math Quests feel like a game on worksheets. They can feel like fun, so will suit being set as an early finisher activity. However, they also offer lots of reading, and math to complete, keeping it a meaningful and beneficial task to complete. 

Set as an Emergency Math Lesson or Sub Plan
We've all been there - those days where it's tougher to engage students. When everybody is feeling a bit tired and over the regular routine. If you find yourself pushing through math content and the response from your class doesn't seem to be quite there, I recommend stopping and shaking things up with a Math Quest. Select the quest video hook on the board to view, and send your students on an epic adventure with drama, action, suspense, and math . . . lots of math! It's not wasted time because they will still be gaining lots of practice in areas of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and more (just check the Math Quest skills outline in the description to find out what's covered in a particular quest) . Then, hopefully after a bit of an escape from the regular routine, you can get back to teaching them where you left off on a better day.

The same idea goes for having this handy as a sub-tub activity, because:
  • It's fun
  • It's easy to prep (just print & copy) 
  • It's filled with reading and math
  • It can be explored as a class, in pairs, or independently.
  • It can be differentiated. With three levels to choose from, you can also differentiate for your students by assigning the appropriate level to better match needs and ability levels.  ​

Math Quests are also useful for emergency lessons around the holiday seasons when student engagement starts to fade. 

Please feel free to comment if you have any questions about these resources or would like to share your experience with using them in your classroom. 

Redbeard's Rebellion Math Quest

$7.95

Send your students on an epic Math Quest with this exciting pirate story “Redbeard’s Rebellion”. It covers a mix of math skills, making it an excellent activity for enrichment, practice and review. With six exciting chapters to work through, students can end up with one of four possible endings.


Easy prep! Just print & go! Or go paperless with the new Google Docs option provided within your download.


NEW - Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive. Parts of the pages are editable so that your students can complete without having to print the pages. Please note, you will need to make a copy of the Google Slides to your drive before you can edit.


This is an ideal math activity for enrichment, early finishers, sub tub or to just add a bit of extra fun to math review time.


EASY, MEDIUM, and HARD worksheet versions included!

Shop

Escape Monster Mansion Math Quest Activity (Differentiated Levels Included)

$7.95

Escape from Monster Mansion Math Review Activity! Send your students on an epic Math Quest with this scary story “Escape Monster Mansion.”  This is a fun activity to do to get some extra math practice in or for early finishers. With six exciting chapters to work through, students can end up with one of four possible endings.


This is an ideal math activity for enrichment, early finishers, sub tub or to just add a bit of extra fun to math review time.


EASY, MEDIUM, and HARD worksheet versions included!


Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Docs option provided within your download.


NEW - Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive. Parts of the pages are editable so that your students can complete without having to print the pages. Please note, you will need to make a copy of the Google Slides to your drive before you can edit.

Shop

Raiders of the Lost Egg - Easter Math Quest

$7.95

Raiders of the Lost Egg is a fun Easter math activity in a worksheet format! Math Quests are an ideal teaching resource to give to students for extra math practice, extension work, and review! Educators can use these math quest activities to enrich, engage and motivate students in the classroom or at home. Raiders of the Lost Egg is a useful resource for tutoring too! With easy, medium, and hard levels included, this math task can also be differentiated by swapping the chapters across the difficulty levels. A bonus 'super easy' level is included in this quest packet too.


Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Slides link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive. Parts of the pages are editable so that your students can complete without having to print the pages. Please note, you will need to make a copy of the Google Slides to your drive before you can edit.


Worksheets are available in - Printable and Google Slides within this pack

Shop

Over the Rainbow - St Patrick's Day Math Quest Activity

$7.95

Send your students on an epic Math Quest with this fun story “Over the Rainbow.” Even though it has a St. Patrick's Day theme, it still can be used at the end of the year as a fun review activity.


Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive.


A fun 'easy prep' activity to get some extra math practice in this is great to use as an essential review, enrichment activity or for your early finishers. With seven exciting chapters to work through, students can end up with one of four possible endings as they try to help Leroy McClumsy get his pot of gold back from the giant.


This differentiated pack includes the same activity ineasy, medium and hard modes.

Shop

Christmas Math Quest: Reindeer Round-Up

$7.95

This Christmas send your students on an epic Math Quest with this fun story “Reindeer Round-Up”. This is a fun activity to get some extra math practice in or for your early finishers. With seven exciting chapters to work through, students can end up with one of four possible endings as they try to help Santa round up all of his reindeer from their holidays around the world.


This is an ideal Christmas math activity for enrichment, early finishers, sub tub or to just add a bit of extra fun to math review time around the holidays.


EASY, MEDIUM, and HARD worksheet versions included!


Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive. 

Shop

Thanksgiving Math Quest - The Terrible Turkey Takeover

$7.95

The Terrible Turkey Takeover is a fun Thanksgiving math activity in a worksheet format!


Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive.


Math Quests are an ideal teaching resource to give to students for extra math practice and review! Educators can use these math quest activities to enrich, engage and motivate students in the classroom or at home. The Terrible Turkey Takeoveris a useful resource for tutoring too! With easy, medium, and hard levels included, this math task can also be differentiated by swapping the chapters across the difficulty levels. 

Shop

School Jungle Jam - Math Quest

$7.95

The School Jungle Jam is a fun way to get back into math at the beginning of the school year.


These easy prep math worksheets feel like a game, as your students adventure through the story and solve math!


Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive.


Math Quests are an ideal teaching resource to give to students for extra math practice and review! Educators can use these math quest activities to enrich, engage and motivate students in the classroom or at home. The School Jungle Jam is a useful resource for tutoring too! With easy, medium, and hard levels included, this math task can also be differentiated by swapping the chapters across the difficulty levels. 

Shop

Valentine's Day Math Quest - The Heartless Queen

$7.95

The Heartless Queen is a fun Valentine's Day math activity in a worksheet format! 



Math Quests are an ideal teaching resource to give to students for extra math practice and review! Educators can use these math quest activities to enrich, engage and motivate students in the classroom or at home. The Heartless Queenis a useful resource for tutoring too! With easy, medium, and hard levels included, this math task can also be differentiated by swapping the chapters across the difficulty levels. 


Distance Learning Update: I've added a Word Document within the folder that contains a Google Doc link to share this resource with your students via Google Classroom or Drive.

Shop

Math Quests

Shop
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

      Newsletter Sign Up

    Subscribe to Newsletter

    Categories

    All
    Addition
    Alphabet Activities & Ideas
    Anchor Charts
    Assessment
    Back To School
    Behavior Management
    Books
    Brain Breaks
    Character Development
    Christmas Activities And Resources
    Classroom Management
    Digital Escape Room Game
    Distance Learning
    Division
    Easter Activities
    End Of Year
    For Parents
    Fractions
    Fun Lessons
    Fun Mystery Games And Activities
    GIVEAWAYS
    Google Classroom
    Halloween
    Icebreakers
    Inclusive Classrooms
    Keep Minds Active
    Math Activities
    Math Centers
    Math Games
    Math Mysteries
    Math Posters
    Math Tricks
    Math Videos
    More Teacher Stuff
    Mystery Logic Puzzles
    Mystery Prompts
    Patterns
    Place Value
    Positive Classroom
    Posters
    Preschool Activities
    Puzzles
    Reading Activities
    Reading Mysteries
    Student Motvation
    Teacher Wellbeing
    Teaching Ideas
    Teaching Strategies
    Technical Help
    TPT Products Free & Paid
    Writing Activities

    Picture
    CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE MATH MYSTERY!

    Author

    A 21st century School Teacher, Mother, and Wife.

    Follow Mrs J!
    Picture
    CLICK HERE FOR MORE MATH MYSTERIES

    This website uses marketing and tracking technologies. Opting out of this will opt you out of all cookies, except for those needed to run the website. Note that some products may not work as well without tracking cookies.

    Opt Out of Cookies
TPT Store: Mrs J's Resource Creations
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Blog
  • Teacher Resources
    • Math Mysteries >
      • GRADE 1 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 2 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 3 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 4 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 5 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 6 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 7 Math Mysteries
      • GRADE 8 Math Mysteries
    • Reading & Literacy Mysteries
    • Math Projects
    • Math Quests
    • Free Resources
  • Shop
  • Video Library
    • Math Mystery Video Hooks >
      • Case of the 100 Missing Treats
      • Case of The Abducted Alien
      • Case of The Alien Apocalypse
      • Case of The Angry Adder
      • Case of The Bee Bandits
      • Case of the Christmas Chaos
      • Case of the Cursed Classrooms
      • Case of The Disappearing Donuts
      • Case of The Divided Dragon's Division Review
      • Case of The Dream Snatcher
      • Case of The Egg Thief
      • Case of The Forgetful Pharaoh
      • Case of The Furious Falls Winds
      • Case of the Giant Goblin
      • Case of The Gobbler's Curse
      • Case of The Graduation Gremlins
      • Case of the Great Zoo Escape
      • Case of The Greedy Gnome
      • Case of the Halloween Heist
      • Case of the Heartbroken Heroes
      • Case of the Invisible Illusionist - Integers Math Mystery Activity
      • Case of the Jumpy Jack-O-Lanterns Halloween Math Mystery
      • Case of The Jungle Joker
      • Case of The Kidnapped Groundhog
      • Case of The Litterbug
      • Case of the Lost Leprechaun
      • Case of the Magnificent Growth Mindset
      • Case of The Mathattan Meltdown
      • Case of Mean Mountain
      • Case of The Millennium Bug
      • Case of the Mirror Madness
      • Case of The Misplaced Pot of Gold
      • Case of the Missing Campers
      • Case of the Missing Macaw
      • Case of The Monster Mix-Up
      • Case of the Never-Ending Rain
      • Case of the Outback Outlaw
      • Case of The Phantom Phoenix
      • Case of the Pickpocketing Pirate
      • Case of The Poisonous Pizzas
      • Case of The Puzzled Pirate
      • Case of The Robot Robbery
      • Case of The Rogue Runner
      • Case Of The Rotten Eggs
      • Case of The School Invaders
      • Case of The Selfish Elf
      • Case of The Shogun's Sword
      • Case of The Snowman Army
      • Case of The Sticky Bank Burglary
      • Case of The Super Bad Superhero
      • Case of the Thanksgiving Thief
      • Case of The Thankless Turkey
      • Case of The Time Traveling Troll
      • Case of The Tricking Treat
      • Case of The Valentine Villain
      • Case of The Vengeful Vampire
      • Case of The Zombie Elves
    • Junior Reading Mysteries >
      • Bo-Peep's Stolen Sheep
      • Broken Beanstalk
      • Miss Muffet's Missing Muffins
      • Mother Hubbard's Robbed Cupboard
      • Poisoned Porridge
      • Ruined Ruby Slippers
      • Spooky Singer
      • The Ever After Emerald
      • The Greedy Guest
    • Reading Mystery Video Hooks >
      • Burrow Slime
      • EGGpocalypse
      • Fool's Gold Read Mystery
      • Forest Grime - Reading Mystery
      • Haunting Hat - Reading Mystery
      • Humpty's Fall Reading Mystery
      • Knight's Tail
      • Poisoned Valentine
      • Rescue Rudolph
      • Stolen Time
      • Teacher Toads - Reading Mystery
      • Turkey Trouble!
      • Twinkle's Lost Shine
      • Which Witch? - Reading Mystery
      • Wizard Blizzard
    • Math Quest Video Hooks >
      • Escape Monster Mansion
      • Over The Rainbow Math Quest
      • Raiders of The Lost Egg
      • Redbeard's Rebellion
      • Reindeer Roundup
      • School Jungle Jam
      • The Heartless Queen
      • The Terrible Turkey Takeover
    • A-Z Letter Detectives Video Hook >
      • The Case of the Alien's Apples
      • The Case of the Banana Bandit
      • The Case of the Cat's Cookies
      • The Case of the Dragon's Diamonds
      • The Case of the Eagle's Eggs
      • The Case of the Frog's Flowers
      • The Case of the Ghost's Gumballs
      • The Case of the Hippo's Hat
      • The Case of the Iguana's Ice Cream
      • The Case of the Jaguar's Jellybeans
      • The Case of the Kangaroo's Kite
      • The Case of the Lion's Lollipops
      • The Case of the Monster's Map
      • The Case of the Ninja's Necklace
      • The Case of the Octopus's Oar
      • The Case of the Pirate's Pizza
      • The Case of the Queen's Quiver
      • The Case of the Robot's Rocket
      • The Case of the Sloth's Skateboard
      • The Case of the Turtle's Toys
      • The Case of the Unicorn's Umbrella
      • The Case of the Vampire's Violin
      • The Case of the Wizard's Wand
      • The Case of the X-Hero's X-Ray
      • The Case of the Yeti's Yo-Yo
      • The Case of the Zebra's Zucchinnis
    • Background Music >
      • Back to School Mystery Detective Music
      • Christmas Mystery Music
      • Easter Mystery Spy Background Music
      • Halloween Background Music
      • St Patrick's Day Background Music for the Classroom
      • Thanksgiving Mystery Background Music
      • Valentine's Day Mystery Spy Music
  • TPT
  • About
  • Privacy Policy