Math + Basketball = Fun! Fun! Fun!

Are you and your students huge basketball fans?

Whether it's professional or college hoops, odds are that your kids have a favorite basketball team and get excited about March Madness every spring.

And since both the NBA (professional) and NCAA (college) basketball seasons are currently in full swing, now is a great time to channel some of your kids' enthusiasm for hoops into your lesson plans with a fun basketball-themed math puzzle!

Relating sports to mathematics is a great way to share awesome real-world connections in math, like how talent scouts use math to evaluate players, and channel your students’ enthusiasm for sports into meaningful learning experiences.

The following basketball-themed math puzzles for elementary level and middle school level students are sample activities from our best-selling PDF math workbook: The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.

The puzzles are tiered by difficulty using the following color system used in the workbook.

Pink Level (Grades 1-2) | Blue Level (Grades 3-4) | Green Level (Grades 5-6+)

Free Basketball Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6+

(answer keys to follow)

Pink Level Puzzle ( for Grades 1-2)

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Blue Level Puzzle (for Grades 3-4)

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Green Level Puzzle (for Grades 5-6+)

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Wait! Do You Want More Fun Math Activities and Puzzles Like These to Share with Your Students?

If you and your students had a positive experience with today’s basketball math puzzles, then you will love our latest math puzzle book, The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6, which shares 300+ kid-friendly and differentiated math activities that are easy to print and share.

The book covers math topics like:
-adding and subtracting
-multiplying and dividing
-applying order of operations
-fractions
-multiplication tables
-area models
-math writing activities

It also includes a complete answer key and several useful templates.

Take a Look Inside

You can access the entire Table of Contents by clicking here.

And you can click the links below to access some sample pages:

Pink Level Samples (for Grades 1 and 2): Sample A | Sample B

Blue Level Samples (for Grades 3 and 4): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C

Green Level Samples (for Grades 5 and 6+): Sample A | Sample B | Sample C

There are three puzzles per page and they include the familiar name/date/directions sections that are included in typical math worksheets, which makes them easier to print and share aswarm-up and exit-ticket activities, in lesson plans, and as extra credit and homework assignments.

Get Your Math Puzzles

Click here to get your copy of The Big Book of Super Fun Math Puzzles for Grades 1-6.

And check out the solutions to the basketball-themed puzzles below:

Pink Level (Grades 1-2): basketball=8, hoop=5, sneaker=10, ?=18

Blue Level (Grades 3-4): basketball=12, hoop=6, sneaker=14, clipboard=7, ?=39

Green Level (Grades 5-6+): basketball=6, hoop=6, sneaker=18, clipboard=10, ?=96

Using themed math puzzles is just one awesome time-saving strategy for boosting your students’ engagement. Subscribe to our mailing list here to get more free daily resources, lesson plans, ideas, and insights for K-12 math teachers in your inbox every week.