Building Thinkers through Open-Ended Tasks

Open-ended tasks offer great opportunities for our students to grow as problem solvers. They also offer students a non-threatening way to show their work, and develop good vocabulary and justification skills.  

These open-ended problems I created are perfect for December or early January because they are holiday-based.  There are 15 different problems in this document, and I think there is something for every grade level.  Please feel free to download and use whatever pages best fit the needs of your students.  

OPEN-ENDED PROBLEMS