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Maths Murder Mysteries

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 

Revision  - This Maths Murder Mystery involves students practising and applying their basic algebra, number and geometry skills.

Algebra 

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. 

Revision - This Maths Murder Mystery involves students practising and applying their basic algebra, number and geometry skills.

Data Handling

Mean from a Table - This Harry Potter themed Maths Murder Mystery involves students having to presume the murderer is an average person. They need to caculate the averages of the guests to start narrowing down the murderer. It includes students needing to both calculate and estimate the mean from ungrouped and grouped tables.

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Maths Murder Mystery

Have a go at this maths based murder mystery, you’ll need codebreaking skills too. Good luck!

Download the worksheet here.

Ps. The answers are at the end of each activity, no reading ahead now……

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Summer Murder Mystery

Summer Murder Mystery

Subject: Mathematics

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Lesson (complete)

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problem solving mystery ks2

A second level/KS2 maths problem solving task which gives children clues to eliminate suspects from a list to find out who the murderer is. Works well in mixed ability pairs or small groups. Involves adding fractions with different denominators and place value including decimals. Have included in word and PDF format or teacher convenience.

Answers included in the back pages.

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